For one weekend, Croker was a theatre of extremes. Kerry eked out a 2-18 to 0-20 win over Dublin in a semi-final tighter than the scoreline suggests — Paudie Clifford pulling the strings, the Kingdom's bench swinging the momentum. Then came Mayo, obliterating Louth 3-23 to 0-15 in a 17-point demolition that was even more one-sided than it reads: the Wee County went 28 minutes without a score across the two halves. And tucked between those blockbusters, Wicklow pulled...