TECHNOLOGY AND HOW much we should use it. That’s a conundrum for our time. Musicians have grappled with their own version for millenia and have long since concluded that the notes you leave out are as important as those you put in.
And the more you leave out the better. There is a lot we can do with technology in sport. How much is enough? We’ve had HawkEye in some of the bigger GAA matches since 2013 – do we want a video review as well? Patrick Horgan thinks yes.
“If one decision has to be given then they all have to be given but something that’s going to decide the year (should be reviewed),” he said on William Hill’s The Square Ball podcast. Horgan was of course talking about Conor Leen’s jersey pull on Robbie O’Flynn at the death of this year’s All-Ireland hurling final. If anybody might have arrived at the conclusion that there should be more technological oversight in hurling then it is Horgan.
In a parallel universe he might have a winners medal from 2013 had the final whistle gone when expected, leaving his late point as the telling score. And, who knows, perhaps Cork beat Clare in a replay on 3 August if Johnny Murphy sees the jersey pull on 28 July. Only there isn’t one parallel universe, as Horgan himself indicates in the first part of his quote.
There are several trillion. If there is a video review in place then naturally the 2024 championship does not conclude with O’Flynn seeing his shot tail wide while Leen grips tight and hopes for the.