People forget Galway are at least four years into their curve

"If you don’t win, you’re not remembered" — Andrew O’Shaughnessy

Can we not be fancy about the general stuff? The season all but behind us allows latitude.

Sunday afternoon will bookend a summer of action that swung between remarkable and sublime. Hurling overshadowed soccer and football, Love Island and Brexit. Most impressively of all, hurling even overshadowed the fiasco that enveloped the Liam Miller tribute match.