Cork must regroup as traditional game thing of the past

When GAA historians reflect on the changes that hurling has undergone, will they mark down Sunday, May 3, 2015 as the day when the conventional game with the traditional positions of six, two, six finally died?

This was the day that Waterford — a county renowned for strength, skill, style and off-the-cuff hurling — had moved to the dark side.

Emerging from Division 1B, they plundered the Allianz League title, a phenomenal achievement by playing with a system. The future historians will opine that this fully deserved victory hammered the last nail into the coffin of traditional 15 versus 15, playing as per the match programme, that had endured for well over a century.