Eight observations from the AHL: Hurling could benefit from football's new advantage rule

Also, Tipperary are starting to take shape while the Games Intelligence Unit could be a ground breaking for hurling. 

Hurling rarely embraces the idea of carrying across Gaelic football rule changes but the new advantage rule with no time limit has its benefits.  Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

The league has not been kind to All-Ireland champions. Limerick distorted the perception, but great teams tend to do that. The reality is that rising for a successful league campaign after climbing the Hogan Stand steps the previous year is tricky.

“I don’t think the league will define us,” said Tipperary’s Liam Sheedy after the 2019 All-Ireland winners started the 2020 league with three defeats in a row. Galway in 2018 failed to gain promotion from Division 1B and bowed out at the quarter-final stage. Tipperary reached a final in 2017 where they were hammered by Galway. The last team before Limerick to back up the Liam MacCarthy Cup with a subsequent league title was Kilkenny in 2013. One long campaign can bleed into the other.