No magic formula or system, says Cork hurling selector Pat Hartnett

Systems and sweepers don’t interest Pat Hartnett. He’s a purist. Or at least that’s what he is selling.

The Cork selector gives you the impression he’s the last man you’ll find drawing on a whiteboard in the Cork dressing-room on match-day. His concern is with first-touch, striking, fetching, tackling.

The basics, as he calls them. It is a word he’ll repeat seven times during the course of our chat.