I’ve been keeping an eye on the number of sideline cuts scored in the championship 2010.  Here is the tally so far:

• 2 Joe Canning
• 1 Ger Farragher
• 1 Alan McCrabbe
• 1 Zane Keenan

So that’s 5 scored in 11 matches.  Not a bad return.  Recall that last year there were 11 cuts scored.

Here is the latest list of players making their championship debuts:

Laois

• Eoin Reilly
• Neil Foyle

Carlow

• Eoin Nolan
• Eddie Byrne
• Richard Coady
• Hugh Paddy O’Byrne
• Paudie Kehoe
• Alan McDonald
• Denis Murphy

Galway

• Donal Barry
• David Burke
• Aidan Harte
• Eanna Ryan

Wexford

• Noel Carton
• Lar Prendergast
• Paul Morris

Offaly

• James Dempsey
• Stephen Egan
• Shane Kelly

Antrim

• Thomas McCann
• Colm McFall

Cork

• Michael Cussen
• Lorcan McLoughlin
• Ray Ryan

Tipperary

• Michael Cahill
• Seamus Hennessy
• Timmy Hammersley
• Jody Brennan
• Brian O’Meara

Waterford

• Liam Lawlor

Clare

• Donal Touhy
• Cian Dillon
• Nicky O’Connell
• Sean Collins
• Darach Honan
• Cormac O’Donovan
• Domhnall O’Donovan

Dublin

• Ruairi Trainor

Kilkenny

• John Mulhall

Limerick

• Shane O’Neill
• Kieran O’Rourke
• Sean O’Riordan
• Thomas O’Brien
• Andrew Brennan
• Sean Herlihy
• Anthony Owens
• Richie McKeogh
• Lorcan O’Dwyer
• Peter Russell
• Cathal Mullane
• Nicky Quaid

That makes 51 newcomers to championship hurling so far in 2010.