Champions can finally find form

It would be pushing it to suggest Pat Gilroy treated the Leinster championship with contempt this summer.

But there would more than just a morsel of evidence to theorise that he didn’t commit all of his attention to the competition.

Exhibit A: Using a whopping 27 different players across those three games. If Dublin cared all that much, the same starting team and bench-men would have been used regularly.