Galway must root out any idea that things will just happen

The Twitterati, and numerous other Twitter bandits, were laying it into Jackie Tyrrell and I hot and heavy last Sunday night. They weren’t happy with our comparative analysis between the Munster and Leinster finals. A few of them told us to go away and watch the World Cup, that we might know more about Colombia and Japan than Cork and Clare.

Maybe it was the defender’s mentality in both of us but Jackie and I saw a beauty in the Galway-Kilkenny match that many of the general public didn’t.

It was raw, hard, manly stuff. I’m not saying the Munster final wasn’t but the savagery of the tackling and the ferocity of some of the hits in Croke Park wouldn’t have been out of place a couple of miles down the road in the Aviva Stadium.