Readers know how the NFL draft works: In an effort to maintain competitive balance, teams which perform poorly this season get to choose better prospects coming out of college for next season. Michael Moynihan opens a similar draft for hurling counties.

Tired limbs and bruised bodies will emerge through the tunnel at Cusack Park tomorrow afternoon, hurlers from both sides carried by the big M: momentum.

TRY, try and try again goes the legend of Robert the Bruce, the persistence of a spider in his hideout cave at Rathlin Island persuading the Scottish lord to go back and have one last lash at gaining the throne, which of course he succeeded in doing.

Tipperary man Paudie Butler has been confirmed as the GAA's new National Hurling Coordinator.

THE glamour of inter-county hurling competition should not disguise the fact that the GAA must properly cater for club players.