It’s all about finding the right formula, insists Silke

NOT quite on a wing and a prayer, but Galway can only hope that the benefit of their round-robin games, combined with a more structured approach to club activity, will have aided their preparations for Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland Hurling quarter-final against Tipperary.

At least that's the theory, according to team coach Sean Silke, who joined the management at the start of the year after having been involved with the intermediate team since the mid-nineties.

Specifically, it's a matter of getting the balance right between club and intercounty competition, something he feels Galway didn't get right last year and which manager Conor Hayes himself has acknowledged.