‘The talk all the time is Galway don’t have a team outside of Joe. But we do’

David Burke doesn’t do clichés.

When quizzed on the proposed changes to the hurling championship earlier this summer, Burke had no interest in kicking to touch.

The present model, he stressed, wasn’t working, citing the 11-week gap afforded to Waterford between league and championship and their subsequent no-show against Cork in the Munster semi-final as a prime example of its ineffectiveness.