Scrap the ugly tactics and let the game flow

I really envy these players from Kilkenny and Tipperary.

They’re going into the greatest stadium in the world to play the greatest game in the world. I hope they realise that, I hope they appreciate that, and play hurling as it was meant to be played, with freedom, with enjoyment.

I know guys are fitter now, faster, have spent all those months in the gym building themselves up. I’d prefer to see them use all that physical training in a positive way, when it comes to playing the game. I don’t like the way hurling has been edging towards the ugly way football has been played over the last few years. I know you have to have tactics in any game but hurling is still as it always was, has some very basic principles – those shouldn’t change.