Cats so classy but Tribe failed to learn lessons

Much as thought they celebrated it at the time, I’d say a lot of Galway people are today half-wishing that Joe Canning had actually missed that last free in the drawn All-Ireland final a few weeks ago.

They’d have been able to console themselves over the winter with the thought that they had a good team coming, had won the Leinster title, had run Kilkenny so close in the All-Ireland. Now?

Their thinking has to be a lot different. This was a comprehensive defeat. Let no-one in Galway fool themselves. Let there be no talk about goals called back, Joe hitting the post and a man sent off.