Tribe must develop killer instinct

Pete Finnerty had a neat way of summing up Galway’s failings a few years back.

To him it came down to one simple question. “How many of them are willing to get themselves sent off?” he was fond of asking (and probably still is).

It wasn’t an existential enquiry, it was a practical enquiry. And Finnerty was entitled to pose it, not only as a member of Galway’s last All-Ireland-winning team but also as someone who’d hurled alongside Sylvie Linnane, Conor Hayes, Ollie Kilkenny, Tony Keady and Gerry McInerney in defence on said team.