Canning: I didn’t perform at all this year

THE dejection has yet to dissipate in Galway after their heartbreaking All-Ireland hurling quarter-final defeat by Tipperary last month.

For the second season in succession they were pipped by a point and for their leading attacker Joe Canning, the defeat compounded a season of disappointments.

An All-Ireland club final defeat with Portumna, a Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final loss with Limerick IT and Galway’s championship exit all took place against the backdrop of indifferent personal form. By Canning’s phenomenally high standards, he struggled to scale the heights in 2010 and is brutally honest in admitting that.