Speedy start puts Sars on road to 33rd title triumph
During the week in these pages Eoin Kelly, well acquainted with the dramatis personae on both sides from his years with both Tipperary and Mullinahone, differentiated between Thurles and Loughmore on the basis of football influence. Loughmore, Kelly pointed out, have enjoyed enough football county success in Tipp to try some tactical tricks from that code in hurling, and he instanced their tendency to track numbers back towards the D in football style, cutting space for opponents.
Thurles, by contrast, Kelly saw as less interested in footballing tactics, and so it proved yesterday.
