Rebels great value at 10/1 to end famine

Cork and Tipp tomorrow on an afternoon so pregnant with permutations you feel almost tempted to stand up and gallantly offer it your seat.

On the basis that our heads would surely explode were we to go through all the semi-final and relegation possibilities, let’s talk a little about last Sunday in Páirc Uí Chaoimh instead.

Cork showed enough to indicate that they’ll reach a turn in the road soon, this summer or next summer, the way every emerging team does. And a couple of years later we’ll look back and agree that, yes, that was the day things changed, in much the same way the qualifier win against Tipperary one Saturday evening in Killarney in 2004, when Donal O’Grady’s team got back on the horse after unseating against Waterford in the match of the decade, was the preface to successive MacCarthy Cups.