Experience won it for Tipp

There’s a saying in sport that you can’t coach experience and experience certainly won Sunday’s game for Tipperary, while on the other side, inexperience cost Cork.

All through, Tipp’s forwards held the ball that extra second longer, which invariably meant they took the correct option. Noel McGrath’s clinical goal in the 46th minute was the key play in the game and was all about experience. The running of Lar Corbett onto a through ball from John O’Brien as well as the original inviting pass from ‘Bonner’ Maher all showed experience.

McGrath had taken the optimum position to receive the pass from Corbett, who had fixed the defender by running straight before offloading at the perfect time.