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Confused Corbett lost for answers

Lar Corbett came out to face the press with the scars of battle clearly visible, but he was honest to a fault. Invited to work his way through the fall-out, he was frank enough to point to Kilkenny’s goal tally.

“Hard to know when you’re in the middle of it, to know where it went wrong. There wasn’t much in it at half-time, we were battling well. Where did it fail for us? I don’t know. That’s a question for us.

“They got a few goals, and goals win games – you’ve seen that between Tipp and Kilkenny in the last few years. Goals win games.”

Corbett said the exchanges were as physical as could be expected.

“It was, but Tipp-Kilkenny for the last few years, it’s been physical; if it goes to a shoot-out anyone can win, but it’s going to be physical and you’ve got to be prepared.”

The Thurles Sars man didn’t agree that Kilkenny had dominated their opponents through sheer intensity.

“I wouldn’t like to think they dominated physically, I thought we matched them for physicality.

“When it came to getting the ball, getting goals, working together, getting on the breaking ball, their forwards definitely got on the breaking ball a little easier than us.

“The way the game has changed, you have to move between forward and midfield, even if that’s only making room for other players to get on the ball.”

Had the proximity of Tommy Walsh, Jackie Tyrrell and his own team-mate, Pa Bourke, constricted Corbett?

“If you look at my game, it’s about getting on the ball, getting scores,” said Corbett. “The scoreboard doesn’t tell lies.

“I didn’t score 12 months ago, and I didn’t score today. But I believe if I can create space – the goal came out of it, we got a point or two, I got a ball into Pa [Bourke] in the first half.

The Tipp icon hadn’t lost his sense of humour though.

“We had a great conversation there for about 70 minutes,” he said about himself and his markers – while the sense of perspective was also intact.

Regrets about coming back? “I’m 31 and I’ve no regrets in life at all,” said Corbett. Home

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