No plan B in lopsided league

It’s become a custom of the National League’s fixture makers to start the competition with a bang.

Just as pitting Clare and Kilkenny, last year’s All-Ireland and Division 1 champions, against one another is the kind of fixture to whet the appetite, there would also appear to be plenty of logic in commencing Division 1B with a meeting of its two best teams, Cork and Limerick.

Just how big a deal is Saturday’s game? Enough for dual players Aidan Walsh and Eoin Cadogan to miss the footballers’ round two clash with Kildare, that’s how big.