Saturday night’s events in Semple Stadium have left Cork hurling fans not so much angry – though they are a bit of that – as fretful and worried about the future and they are trotting out various remedies to get back on the winning trail.

The fans aim at a wide variety of targets this week. For example, how the format of the championships leads to so many one-sided games and particularly to Kilkenny’s dominance in hurling … Cork footballers are faulted, as are critics of Kerry’s mercurial captain Paul Galvin …Those profligate Dublin hurlers who shot off enough wides to beat Wexford twice over …and question marks over the great Eoin Kelly’s free taking technique.