We know well that your best chance of winning a hurling match is to have been poor enough the last day. But no, even Derek McGrath, who has crunched all the numbers, accepts you are still going nowhere without ‘vicious savagery’. So your best bet is to have been shocking last week or the week before, so you can get ‘a bounce’. There is the other approach, of course, where you build an ‘aura of invincibility’, but it is fraught with difficulty. There is no bigger bounce than an infusion of Corkness and it may well be the only known force powerful enough to counter Limerick’s certainty.

Source: Irish Examiner November 14, 2020 06:05 UTC