Galway in danger of becoming Gaelic footballing equivalent of the Fyre Festival — all promise, no product

Three Sundays ago, at the midpoint of a Connacht SFC final nobody was loving too much, you could have forgiven Galway manager Kevin Walsh a micro-breath of presumptuous relief: his side leading by five, at home, the expectation was they would consolidate their advantage — albeit in monsoon conditions — and reclaim the provincial title.

The manner of triumph would’ve been deemed largely irrelevant in the context of the bigger picture: another provincial title — a third under Walsh — and a victory that would leave Galway’s two main provincial rivals; Roscommon and Mayo, winded on the canvas while ensuring the Tribesman safe passage to the Super 8’s.