You’re the one, who’s spent the last seven months reading an awful lot into one match last summer, claiming a moral victory for Kilkenny in losing to Limerick.
Any time I watched them playing, they were very average.
Steeped to beat Dublin in Parnell Park
0-1 from play from the starting 6 forwards against Galway in Salthill in 70 minutes before an injury time Walter Walsh goal averted a double digit defeat.
0-1 from play from the starting 6 fowards against Wexford in Nowlan Park.
0-4 from play from the starting 6 forwards against Galway in drawn Leinster Final.
Beaten out the gate in the first half of the replay against Galway in Thurles. Galway fell asleep for a few minutes to let them back into, then woke up again to hammer them a second time.
They did improve a bit against Limerick, but the story of that match was Limerick making far heavy work than they should have had of overcoming psychological baggage and Aaron Gillane making a hero of Eoin Murphy.
The Kilkenny reliance on 3 or 4 top drawer saves from their goalkeeper nearly every day and the complete reliance on a 30 something veteran in their forward line is not reflective of a contending team.
The bigging up of Kilkenny is amusing. Everybody beats Kilkenny now. Limerick for the first time last summer since 1973, Waterford the summer before for first time since 1959, Dublin in 2013 for first time since 1941. Kilkenny have got some right hidings in the last three summers from Tipperary, Waterford and Galway. Not many young lads to throw in either at the moment as they were getting hammered by Wexford at U21 for three or fours years running and even losing to Westmeath.