Did Shefflin dismissal play role in card proposal?

Big picture or tiny details? Yesterday’s launch of the Hurling 2020 report gives you panorama and thumbnail in one day’s work.

For this observer’s money, the sense of a dividing line was the most significant takeaway from the launch.

We don’t do existential introspection too well in this country — maybe you need Gauloises and Pernod for that — but Hurling 2020 has done a considerable service to the GAA if it helps to force people to abandon the notion that Gaelic football and hurling are essentially the same sport because they share some basics, like manpower and duration.