Kieran Shannon: Hurling must rethink the crossbar challenge

Now that it’ll be yellow from next summer on, the sliotar should be a lot easier to track — but even with the advent of such a smart ball, there’s probably an even smarter solution when another Brian Hogan incident arises.

You’ll probably remember there was a bit of a hullabaloo last summer about whether or not the ball had already dropped over the Hill 16 end crossbar before the Tipperary goalkeeper hauled it down against both Wexford and Kilkenny in Croke Park, but just how disruptive it was to the flow of the game is something that time has probably already obscured.