What can I say. What can anyone say. What a privilege to be present. Tactics yesterday? What tactics?

All-Ireland final week, and excited as I am at the prospect of another meeting of Kilkenny and Tipperary, I’m also very disappointed with the way hurling is going.

Tony Considine, holds his hands up. He predicted a Cork victory and a classic. On both counts he was way off the mark.

I was chatting to Tom Moloughney during the week, a Tipperary hurling great of the 1960s.

Such an epic All-Ireland hurling semi-final I have not borne witness to in a long time.

What a disappointment this 2014 hurling championship has been.

I thought that we had seen the last of the mismatches last Sunday in Thurles, but unfortunately not.

Let’s call a spade a spade here, the only positive from yesterday’s double-header in Thurles was the crowd of 43,088.

First of all, it is surprising to hear Wexford giving out about where the game is going to be played.

Three big games in the hurling championship again this weekend, two in the qualifiers, but I’m going to start with the Munster final, and the two managers.