Kieran Shannon: As a metric for how enjoyable this championship feels, scoring is as simple as any

We’ve our game back, as good as ever. And with it, even the provincial championships. The figures tell you that.

GOOD MEASURE: For a measure of how enjoyable and engaging this year’s championship already feels, scoring is as simple as any. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

There’s more to football than scoring. Just as Brian Cody preferred the dogfight that was the 2014 hurling final replay over the shootout that was the exalted drawn Hawkeye game, the big ball has a constituency and occasions where 1-13 to 0-14 feels far more satisfying than 1-23 to 0-24, like dining in a Michelin restaurant rather than a McDonald’s.

Still.