No excuses left for undercooked Treaty

Forget the misgivings about the hype in Limerick, forget the five-week break, forget the tactical gyrations.

Sometimes the outcome of a game comes down to nothing more complicated than ABC.

The better team, the one with the greater aggregation of skill, wins. Easy as. Or, if that’s a bit too simplistic for your taste, then the match is won by the team whose management has produced them to outperform the other crowd on the day. Last Sunday was a bit of both. Clare very good, Limerick awful and quite a job to identify where exactly the dividing line lay.