Time to throw tactics out the window

All-Ireland final week, and excited as I am at the prospect of another meeting of Kilkenny and Tipperary, I’m also very disappointed with the way hurling is going.

The craic seems to be going out of it and I think this has a lot to do with how the game is being presented to us lately, on television especially.

It’s all the experts doing the rounds these days, the managers with all their complicated tactics and game-plans, the analysts then getting their chance to dissect in great detail what happened after the game.