When a team is comprehensively beaten by a far superior opponent, the pain of that defeat can be acute and could linger for quite a while before the opportunity presents itself again to try and make amends against that very same opposition.
In times now long past on the provincial and All-Ireland stages, a team might have to wait a full year before they got a chance to try and set the record straight against the county that had inflicted that resounding defeat.
That was in the days of the old championship format, one loss and the season was over, no second or third chances.
Now and rightly so too it’s all changed, it has been now for quite a while and the opportunity to turn the tide in the opposite direction can come around in a…