Patient Ger Cunningham looks ready to look after No. 1 in Dublin

The problem if you make any conclusions after just one round of the league is you can make yourself a hostage to fortune, not just later in the summer but later the same week.

Last year, every Division 1A side that won their opening fixture lost their next one; everyone that lost the first day out won the next. While that trend can’t repeat itself this time — Clare and Cork can’t each emerge with two points from Páirc Uí Rinn next Saturday — the principle and risk is the same.

The bum of the week is the star the next, the crisis of one weekend the joke of the next.