As we head into the fourth weekend of Allianz Hurling League action, a pattern is beginning to emerge. More and more teams are playing the possession game of short stick-passing.

It may not have been great hurling in this club final yesterday but the weather had a lot to do with that.

What odds would you have got on Kilkenny being the only team in Division 1A without a point after two rounds?

Three derby games in the league this weekend. In Ennis we have Clare and Galway, in Dungarvan it’s Cork and Waterford, and in Semple Stadium Tipperary face Kilkenny.

On my way to Galway yesterday I was thinking, what a perfect day for a game, real hurling weather.

There’s been a lot of talk for the last week or so about how many people are allowed on the sideline, a broadside from Kilkenny apparently upsetting GAA president Liam O’Neill.

Tony Considine - My sportsperson of 2012

I’ve made my feelings known many times already on the way the league has been structured for the last few years — I didn’t like it.

I left home at 11am yesterday morning, in heavy rain, heading for Cork and the thought hit me — what were the Munster Council thinking when they fixed this game for a place that is neither here nor there for either Thurles Sars or for De La Salle?

Of the two teams in tomorrow’s Munster club final the club most hurling people would be most aware of is Thurles Sarsfields.