For the €25 or whatever Fergie is asking, you could learn about leadership this week from a man who has done it all and may never stop cashing in. Or you could have saved a few bob and pulled into a field in Ardcroney, six miles outside Nenagh.

The Harty Cup has been competed for since 1918 so it’s hardly a surprise that there have been eight one-county derby finals.

Senior Tipperary players expect former coach Eamon O’Shea will be named their new hurling manager.

Tipperary have named an unchanged starting side for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final clash with Kilkenny, but the major talking point is the inclusion of Toomevara’s John O’Brien at full-forward. O’Brien’s brother Thomas passed away earlier this week.

CLONOULTY-Rossmore captured the Tipperary Co-op Supervalu West Tipperary senior hurling championship for a fourth successive year with a comfortable nine-point victory over Éire Óg Annacarty at Seán Treacy Park yesterday.

DENIS CROWLEY makes his first appearance for the Cork minor footballers for their semi-final against Tipperary in Limerick tonight.

DEFENDING champions Tipperary have left a vacancy at corner forward for tonight’s Munster MHC semi-final against Limerick as they wait for fitness reports on two players who are in line for the position.

The following is the Tipperary minor hurling team to play Limerick Wednesday next in Thurles.

Newly-appointed Tipperary Senior hurling Manager Michael Doyle, and his selectors, Liam Sheedy and Kevin Fox will get together this weekend to formulate plans for the teams' long term preparations for the National league and championship of 2003.

JONATHON McGEE comes back into the Dublin team for next Monday's Bank of Ireland All-Ireland SFC quarter-final clash with Donegal at Croke Park.