O’Neill’s evolution theory

Dónal Óg Cusack didn’t so much have a cut at Tipperary during the Irish Examiner hurling championship round table discussion a fortnight back, more pointed out a glaring truth.

“Tipperary have lovely hurlers and yet of all the innovators of the game, they have not brought their own stamp to it in recent years,” he asserted.

“When they beat Kilkenny in 2010, they went reluctantly into that style of game. In fairness, they went there and yet you always had the feeling that they never wanted to be involved in that hand-to-hand combat that we saw for those three All-Ireland finals.”