More games should mean more All-Star variety

TRYING to pick an All-Star team or Team of the Year is no easy task. What happens, traditionally, is the two teams who reach the final dominate. Is it time to reflect on that? The round robin means that there are so many players vying for inclusion after so many more matches.

The best individual display from a wing-back that I saw was Chris Crummey of Dublin against Kilkenny.

Or take TJ Reid (right), who almost single-handedly dragged his team to a National League title. He would have to be on my team.

Do we forget about the entire spring? The extra games mean that you are leaving out players who were outstanding.

Take the half-forward line, in no particular order: Joe Canning, TJ Reid, Kyle Hayes, Tom Morrissey, Peter Duggan, Daniel Kearney, Seamus Harnedy played out there, Cathal Mannion was brilliant before the final. All deserving in their own way. Conor Whelan (left) is suddenly the most forgotten man in hurling.

From being a certainty before the final, now he’s hardly mentioned as a contender.

Is it time to broaden it out? Pick 26 players to mirror a match-day squad?

Or pick a Leinster Championship team and a Munster Championship team as well, to ensure the final two teams don’t dominate so much?

Worth considering.