Do you still need a traditional full-back?

The discussion at the Tipperary press night was wandering here and there and eventually stuck on the notion of full-back play.

Or rather, full-back identity.

It was an apposite subject. About ten yards away from where we sat that evening this writer had spent a great hour chatting to the great Michael Maher, who had barred the square to a generation of hurlers back in the sixties.