Safety first but Sky put on a polished debut performance

The sky didn’t fall in. And nobody drowned, except Offaly. You couldn’t pin that on the lifeguard in charge.

A slick debut from Murdoch’s stylists. Just a few things to get used to.

There was a nod to the freewheeling, interchanging whirlwind that is modern hurling in the way Jamesie, Ollie and Brian Carney switched and swapped positions all Saturday evening, the Wyse puck-out strategy inviting Canning to make space in his chair for Carney to fill.