‘I don’t know if points from 100 metres are of any value to the game’

The art of goalscoring — from Cork’s old machine-gun fire to the heavy artillery of Tipperary — and the free spirits like Lar Corbett are in danger of being drowned in a sea of points. What to do? Change the sliotar? Award four points for the goal? Enda McEvoy reports

Lar Corbett scored goals. He scored them over and over again. He scored super goals and simple goals, he scored rockets and tap-ins, he scored goals by means of his skill and movement and he scored goals by means of his heft, horsing his marker out of it as the ball dropped on the edge of the square before applying the final touch.

He kicked in a couple of goals and he smashed home quite a few, many of them the fruit of a tactic beloved of Tipperary in the 2008-11 period, with Corbett looping around from his corner and racing across the face of the uprights to take a long delivery from the left and belt it home off his right.