Inside Track with John McIntyre

Most things in life are alright until they aren’t – and that’s the fallout for the Galway senior hurling team management after Sunday’s eight-point loss to champions Kilkenny in a low-key Leinster Final at Croke Park.

It’s not that the Tribesmen didn’t show up or flopped in their first acid test of the year. The players tried hard and displayed no shortage of resolution in trying to reel in a yawning 13-point deficit, but the team looked unbalanced in a positional sense.

In modern hurling, players need the versatility to play nearly anywhere on the field........

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