Clare and Wexford may find themselves all at sea

Four go down to the Lee, as a Cork band of the 1980s was not called.

Misnomer or not, this sliver sums up the weekend. The All-Ireland quarter-finals are upon us and we are off to Cork. Hurling is all shook up.

Or is it? If Tipperary overcome Clare and Waterford overcome Wexford, outcomes flagged by the bookmakers, three of the same counties that made the previous two seasons’ last four return. Is Cork as newcomer much of a triumph for hurling’s sans-culottes?