Is hurling in crisis or is it a revolution?
The dazzling All-Ireland finals of 2009 and 2010 come as a pair, like diamond earrings. Looking back now, they arrived at a turning in the road. Defending had already acquired new layers, imported from Gaelic football and adapted; stick passing was starting to gain traction, and a game that had satisfied itself with clever manoeuvres for generations had slowly opened its mind to the taboo of tactics. Those finals, though, felt both old and modern  hectic, hard, brilliant, breathless, not too salty, not too sweet. To get a jarring sense of what has changed, and how much, watch the 2010 final and last years final back-to-back. All of the ingredients look familiar, but it is not the same dish. One is a stew; the