Madness can make the difference

Stats, psychology, structures and sports science are great, but often, a ravenous hunger trumps all requirements

Another Munster championship is done, dusted and locked away in the cellar. We won’t know the quality of this till we have let it settle a few years. I imagine when we look at it again we’ll say it wasn’t a great year but it was an interesting year.

For the time being we know Cork have taken the championship back and Clare, who looked last September like the best team to come out of the province in a long time, are the only serious Munster hurling side with nothing left to do for the summer.