Who will lay down the early marker?

Check back over the videos of Galway’s three Championship wins over Brian Cody’s Kilkenny and there are common threads.

There are the goals — an average of over two per game — and then there are the early “markers”.

What Richie Murray did against Brian McEvoy in 2001 was replicated by Fergal Healy in 2005 as he and Derek Lyng tussled with one another at the throw-in, an exchange which sparked an early melee involving eight players.