Anthony Daly: Have Cody's Kilkenny the tools to put brakes on relentless Limerick?

JUDGEMENT: Limerick’s Sean Finn (left) Mike Casey combine to deny Galway pair, Conor Whelan (left), and Brian Concannon vital possession close to the Limerick goal at Croke Park. 

It will all be part of a wider discussion that will inflate, expand and explode over the next two weeks, but a core narrative of that story began forming as soon as the final whistle blew in Croke Park yesterday.

Limerick are driving towards history but Brian Cody and his team will be doing everything to stop it in its tracks for more than just trying to win this All-Ireland. Cody’s team of the 2000s are rightly regarded as the greatest ever, especially the side which came close to winning five in-a-row but which bagged six All-Irelands in seven seasons.