Limerick's Adam English and Darragh Corcoran of Kilkenny during last Sunday's Allianz Hurling League Division 1A game at TUS Gaelic Grounds, Co Limerick. Photograph: Tom Maher/Inpho
Hurling had the weekend all to itself, which appeared to guarantee an ambient mood of grumbling. The game has been a little under pressure recently. Last year, enhancements by the Football Review Committee made the big-ball game a lot more watchable. A number of initiatives also shone light on issues for which football could no longer be exclusively blamed.
Discipline was the obvious one and as a result, football is now the more disciplined, better-behaved game.
The reflex response to any suggestion of importing football ideas into hurling has generally been that the latter did not have the same problems with cynical play, gamesmanship and such matters.
At the same time, there was an underlying resentment in some quarters at the entire concept of rules, especially the one
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