Something special happening in Dublin hurling again, but this is Cork’s time

I may be emphasizing my age here by saying that I’ve never played an X-Box or PlayStation, but the one time in my life that I felt as if I was playing virtual hurling in real time was the 2013 All-Ireland semi-final against Cork when I was the Dublin manager.

You can only ever do so much on the line but in my nine years as an inter-county manager, I never felt as much in charge of an evenly matched big game in terms of trying to tactically direct it to the way we had planned – because it was working exactly as how we had scripted it.