Enda McEvoy: Could rule change signal green shoots for hurling's goal-scorers in 2021?

Although goals now matter less in hurling than they’ve ever mattered, how will anyone unhorse Limerick this year unless it’s via the medium of green flags?

THE RIGGING: A goalnet at MacDonagh Park in Nenagh. Goals now matter less in hurling that ever, argues Enda McEvoy. Picture: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

Thoughtful and thought-provoking email from a reader lately that posited an interesting either/or hypothesis for hurling in 2021 for us to chew on.

(A) The coming inter-county season will produce a dearth of goals for any number of reasons, all of them obvious. Too much thinking, too much analysis, too much Zoom coaching. Tactical fouling. What one might term the extirpation of extemporisation, Ken McGrath being the last of the Mohicans in this regard.