The hurling landscape looks very daunting for challenging counties in the next few years

Talent wherever you look in this Limerick squad as they look to lift Liam again

Treaty men have class everywhere you look while final experience is all new for Rebels

Dearth of underage talent and failure to find ‘wow’ players has hurt progression levels

Rebels are not far off being the fastest team there has ever been at intercounty level

Fear of the end can be a positive, it can make you push for ‘The Last Dance’

Why move the finest full back of his generation when there is so much now at stake?

It reminds me of June 2013 when we had to go to that dark place to beat Tipperary

Cats will be beaming with confidence while Galway need to turn things around fast

Sheedy needs to put his best marker on Kelly and avoid mistake Waterford made

It’s not 1998 but there’s still a war to be won when the two sides meet this weekend

Tribesmen tick all boxes and new faces have added serious depth to to already strong panel

I have been pulling my hair out at some of the defending on show - try to tick off the don’ts

The champions have the manager and players to go back-to-back but they still have to evolve

We’re seeing star forwards dropping deeper and defenders roaming forward to clip points