Galway hoping for Cunningham to seal the deal

Galway have changed managers when patience may have proved the better option

Galway will look to Joe Canning to make the difference against Kilkenny today Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

Take a moment and imagine the timeline if a Galway-esque ideology had hacked and carved at the modern hurling universe. Regardless of his playing career, no way would Jimmy Barry-Murphy have been around for Cork’s league in 1998, never mind the All-Ireland in 1999. Whatever about Tipperary being present to win it in 2001, it wouldn’t have been Nicky English on the line after his first two years in charge.

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