Maurice Brosnan: Big hits and a million pivots - eight observations from the hurling league

In a play with over 20 actions, one slight slip is the difference between a win and a loss.

LEVELER: Kilkenny's Jordan Molloy celebrates scoring a point to equalise the league clash with Tipperary. That play could have swung a million ways. Pic: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

Long before the split-season debate was so maligned that a motion to adjust the calendar didn’t even make it to the Congress floor, Galway were urging the association to look elsewhere. Don’t change the season, make the most of it.

County chair Paul Bellew was a vocal opponent of the possible extension of the inter-county season; however, long before this year’s congress, where a clear message was sent regarding the lack of support for such a move, the county submitted a document to Croke Park proposing a complete overhaul of the inter-county calendar.