Tipperary tick all the boxes for for glory road

Tipperary 4-23 Limerick 1-16: Did we see the All-Ireland finalists yesterday?

Granted, that’s not exactly a prediction to make the bookies tremble. But after the punishment beating received by Wexford in Nowlan Park yesterday, and Tipperary’s double-digit win over Limerick, their conquerors for the last two years, you’d be inclined to see this September resembling last September in terms of participants.

Tipp boss Eamon O’Shea disagreed, unsurprisingly, but we’ll come back to that.