“I loved having a chip on the shoulder, I wanted it.”Joe Canning’s new column continues this week and today he has a fascinating insight into a hurler’s attitude to negative press coverage of a team that isn’t performing up to its expected level. The Galway All-Ireland winner is looking at how some questioned Limerick after their below par league campaign, saying that if he felt such negativity around his own performances, it was too easy to use as an extra piece of motivation. “You obviously don’t try any harder to win just because you’re annoyed. But the effect of it is that your focus on the job and on the game plan gets wound in that little bit tighter. You snap right into it because you have a chip on your shoulder. You leave nothi …
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