There’s been a lot of talk for the last week or so about how many people are allowed on the sideline, a broadside from Kilkenny apparently upsetting GAA president Liam O’Neill.

Tony Considine - My sportsperson of 2012

I’ve made my feelings known many times already on the way the league has been structured for the last few years — I didn’t like it.

I left home at 11am yesterday morning, in heavy rain, heading for Cork and the thought hit me — what were the Munster Council thinking when they fixed this game for a place that is neither here nor there for either Thurles Sars or for De La Salle?

Of the two teams in tomorrow’s Munster club final the club most hurling people would be most aware of is Thurles Sarsfields.

It’s hard writing about this game. Having watched Thurles Sarsfields up close from my role with Kilmallock, we’ve tried to move on from the defeat.

I have a problem with the All-Star awards and it’s this — where are those who are picking the teams from?

Much as thought they celebrated it at the time, I’d say a lot of Galway people are today half-wishing that Joe Canning had actually missed that last free in the drawn All-Ireland final a few weeks ago.

It’s strange to be discussing an All-Ireland senior hurling final in late September but what is even more unusual is the low key build up to this replay.

A word of advice to the youngsters who brought Clare its second U21 All-Ireland title in four years — this is only a step along the road.