Kieran Shannon: Cork can get into winning habit by targeting the league

Winning silverware would stand to Pat Ryan's Rebels. 

Cork hurling manager and Sarsfields man Pat Ryan and his family, wife Trish and children Daniel and Aisling at Croke Park on Sunday. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

For numerous division one teams in either national league, the trick they’ll be trying to pull off is to do a Clare without doing a Derry.

No one really knows what went on behind closed doors during Mickey Harte’s one-and-done season but what we did see and hear from him was that he went bald-headed for the league.