Another blow for Tipperary as Lar Corbett decides to call it a day

Lar Corbett’s retirement announcement yesterday brings to four the number of players who have stepped away from Michael Ryan’s panel in the past six days.

In what has developed into a worrying trend for Eamon O’Shea’s successor and former selector, 2010 hurler of the year Corbett confirmed August’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Galway was his last game in county colours. It’s the second time the 34-year-old has quit: in February 2012 he left the panel before returning three months later.

It means the Thurles Sarsfields man, along with Conor O’Mahony and first choice midfield pair James Woodlock and Shane McGrath, won’t be part of Ryan’s plans next season.