The more things change the more they stay the same

The championship is starting. Michael Moynihan gives you his first 15 for 2022: what to look out for, what to expect, what to scratch from the bingo card.

DRINK IT IN: Thomas O'Halloran, from Kilmaley, Co. Clare, left, and Bríd Moran, from Ballylanders, Co. Limerick, enjoy a cup of tea together ahead of the 2017 Munster SHC meeting of the counties. Photo by Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile

1. A jumper.

It’s still April. April. Forget the shirt sleeves and khaki shorts, and keep the sun screen in the glover compartment for a few weeks yet. Granted, May isn’t always sweltering, but it’s only a matter of time before we have a lament for the days of the tar melting on the road as you go into (stadium name here) at the height of summer.