Tribesmen’s tour de force is just the starting point

Now that we’ve all had a bit more time to register last Sunday when we were all so impressed as well as shocked by Galway, there’s a temptation now to be somewhat sceptical of them.

That if they lose their All Ireland semi-final next month, then Sunday was just a waste of time, another false dawn in the tradition of the previous ambushes of Kilkenny in 2001 and 2005, and the forgotten league victories of 2000, 2004 and 2010.

Or that even if they were even to win that semi-final but lose in September, most likely to Kilkenny, they’d rue the day they stirred the monster.