With this leadership, Cork look the real deal
However, the sparks only flew here after the interval as Cork and Tipp served up a very pedestrian first-half.
What stood out for me in both these games was the number of back-passes. At times I wondered if I had wandered into a soccer match. Tipperary especially were at it — what’s wrong with just driving a well-directed ball long at times? Especially when you have big powerful forwards up front, as Tipperary had in Brian O’Meara and John O’Brien.
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