Is it too easy to score now in inter-county hurling?

Hurling is a good game. A centre-back can catch a ball above his head in hurling and lump it over his shoulder. Imagine a centre-back in football catching it and kicking it as far as he could: he will be taken off.

Hurling is off-the-cuff. Look at the amount of scores in hurling, you won’t see that in football. It is very structured and about not giving the ball away.

There was little or nothing off-the-cuff about Galway’s dismantling of Offaly in the Leinster hurling semi-final in Portlaoise last weekend, but those words, uttered by Cork footballer and former hurler Eoin Cadogan a month ago, still seemed mighty relevant, as Micheál Donoghue’s side piled 33 points on the Faithful.