Three key battlegrounds: What odds a Limerick goal from a mislaid Cork puckout?

PM O’Sullivan picks out three areas that could prove decisive on Saturday

Go back to the 2018 All-Ireland final. Limerick’s second goal pivoted on Tom Morrissey dispossessing Gearóid McInerney in a scenario typically thrown up by short puckouts, writes PM O'Sullivan. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

CORK PUCKOUTS

Did 21st-century hurling begin on June 9, 2003? Cork crushed Clare by 11 points in a Munster semi-final. Early on, Dónal Óg Cusack hit a short puckout to his full back, Diarmuid O’Sullivan. That decision, both senses of the term, was a stroke. Puckouts became central to success.