Here's photos of Simon Brady and Martin Conway after being decked following a ladies match in Tyrone. The next day in San Francisco Mark Govern was put into a coma after an 'off the ball' incident in San Francisco. On top of low attendances and average matches come these shocking incidents from the fringes of the sport's grassroots. Attendances and match quality are cyclical and mostly out of the hands of the administrators in Croke Park, but the strange violence that the sport inspires needs to be addressed and curbed.
Headquarters really need the Dublin hurlers to light up the summer.
[Pix via Broadsheet]