Leading Question: Is the relative inexperience of the Tipperary players a help or a hindrance?

TOMORROW a new team takes on Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final, a template we’ve seen in the last two finals, when largely inexperienced sides faced the Cats.

In 2007 Limerick had a survivor in Mark Foley from their mid-nineties trips to September; last year the Waterford players who’d lined out in an All-Ireland final were Tony Browne and Paul Flynn, who had played in the U21 decider in 1992, with Flynn also playing in that season’s minor final.

Tipperary have a terrifically young team, with 11 panellists Under-21 and one teenage starter, Noel McGrath, only a few days away from this season’s minor grade.