A simple tip for Tipperary

They say there’s more than one way to skin a Cat. Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea said that Kilkenny were ‘ferocious’ and ‘formidable’ and that the Tipp players ‘tried to match this but couldn’t on the day’.

Yes, not only do you have to be able to ’fess up to Kilkenny in those two quarters, you also have to have a hurling brain.

Trying to swing the hurley or to take the sliotar in hand, time and again to score inside the Kilkenny Hell’s Kitchen cost Tipperary dearly.

What about kicking the sliotar a la Ray Cummins or using the overhead tennis shot a la Paudie O’Sullivan or the ne plus ultra of hurling skills ie, doubling on the ball a la JB Murphy?

As they say in the Glen: ‘Use your loaf, boy’.

Seamus O Murthaile

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1000 Brussels

Belgium