Revamp required urgently to save summer from fall

This column isn’t one to head to the bookies but in case you are, here’s one to run past them.

What odds that the top seven teams in this year’s Allianz FL Division 1 will have no one outside the top seven get within seven points of them this summer? Already this championship Galway, Limerick and Tipperary have been steamrolled by either 17 or 18 points.

Next weekend Waterford, Offaly and Westmeath will also learn the hard way just how big the gulf between the top division and the rest is.