This is the weekend your year forks one way or the other. And experience is such a vital factor when things drift away from you.

Cork’s formline in Munster this year matches up well with my second stint with Tipp in 2019.

It’s Semple Stadium rather than Cusack Park this year, in a round 3 meeting of Tipp and Clare, but the stakes are just as high.

Cork present almost a unique challenge to the psychologists, but Tipp's job is different this year too. 

Performance science is not exact. On one hand, the management might be drawing on a bit of outside noise for motivation, but they'll also want a collective disconnect from the outside. 

I know what it’s like as a manager when you are struggling in every position and Limerick are drowning you in waves. Everybody is just gasping for air and they are so good sometimes, your ship just goes down

A worrying apathy had crept in among Tipperary supporters, but Liam Cahill has started conversations again.

You only have to clock the massive spend on county teams to realise any drop in gate receipts will hit the balance sheet hard. No manager will want to be responsible for it.

Patrick Maher's departure from the inter-county scene leaves one man standing alone from those late noughties. Noelie McGrath continues to shine bright.

How Pat Ryan and Brian Lohan can take control of their own All-Ireland final destiny