Keeping things fresh in tight turnaround decisive for final four

And with that, the Super 8 became the final four with the remaining quartet arguably the best in the country.

The semi-finals will come thick and fast next weekend, almost too thick and fast. For the supporter, they have, at best, a day or two to flesh out this past weekend’s matches before the focus shifts towards the penultimate round of the championship. I am all for tightening the inter-county calendar and reducing the training-to-match ratio, but two weeks remains the ideal gap between games at this stage of the season.