Dublin have improved, but Galway games will stand to Kilkenny

I’m going to start today with the Leinster final, though it’s not the most important game of the weekend.

Whoever loses here will still be in the All-Ireland championship, a reward for getting this far; whoever loses in the two qualifier games is gone for 2014.

Kilkenny have been waiting for this game for a year; they didn’t play in Croke Park last year, haven’t won a Leinster title since 2011 – they want this one and they want it badly.