Vision, peripheral vision, and precision-tooled delivery. What a trifecta

A production of Hamlet with not one, but two princes. Two captains, two leaders, two scoring machines, two generational talents, two of the wonders of this hurling age. The two frontrunners for the Hurler of the Year award. Seamus Callanan and TJ Reid. The problem with All-Ireland finals is that there can be only one.

A pity in a way, given that if ever the rival captains on the big day had put in a mountain of grunt work, this pair had. By their scoring statistics we had come to know them this summer — to get to know them all over again, rather — and those figures were off the scale.