Sports analysis needs some new tactics

Is it all over for sports analysis at long, long last? Have we finally gone over the brow of the mountain, beyond the peak and down the incline on the far side? This is not the anguished cry of the prophet unrecognised in his own land but a dispassionate statement of fact.

Last Saturday evening on RTÉ John Meyler said one of the managers involved the Cork senior hurling double-header would be dishing out a bollocking at half-time. That morning Graham Henry sailed far past the PG rating when he let loose with a sharp observation from the Rugby World Cup, that some of the All Blacks would be ‘shitting themselves’.