Will McIntyre absorb the lessons?

1. Kilkenny won this Leinster final playing well within themselves.

It was a poor contest, lacking intensity, and Kilkenny didn’t need their A game. They were never troubled by a Galway team that failed to play at the required level of pace or physicality.

Kilkenny played their normal system, holding the half-back line on their own 45-metre line and both midfielders, Michael Fennelly and the impressive Michael Rice, funnelled back to supplement the defence.