ENDA MCEVOY: Attack key to Tipp bridging the gap

The one potential saving grace for Championship 2013 on the evidence of Sunday at Nowlan Park?

ENDA MCEVOY: Attack key to Tipp bridging the gap

It’s a sprint, not a marathon. It’s knockout, not league. Even the stateliest of cruise liners can be holed, as Galway proved last summer and as Galway and/or Cork will have to prove again this summer if the duo of May 5 are not also to be the dance partners of September 8.

Therein lies such appeal as the coming championship holds. That somewhere along the way Kilkenny or Tipperary will hit a couple of bum notes on the same afternoon their opponents hurl two levels above themselves. “We only have to be lucky once,” etc.

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