Nash contribution key in game of fine margins

Something profound happened in the fourth minute at Croke Park on Sunday.

Anthony Nash took a puckout. Fourteen seconds later Luke O’Farrell sent the sliotar sailing between the uprights at the far end.

Doesn’t sound much, but there and then the template for the first half was set: Nash pucking out and one of his colleagues hitting a point in the same sequence of play before the ball went dead.