With all changed utterly, teams fall back on home comforts

We’re all still trying to make some sense of this new hurling calendar, with matches in January and a glut of upcoming fixtures to rival the Premier League’s Christmas schedule, writes Anthony Daly.

Nobody still knows if teams are interested or disinterested in this league so when trying to make predictions in that context, the safest options is to go for home wins.

Cork and Clare came up trumps in Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Ennis. I was working for Sunday Sport on RTÉ so I wasn’t in the Park yesterday but, even from the TV studios in Montrose, you could sense the lift the Clare boys got from the home crowd, especially when the game got tight.