Anthony Daly: Where’s the jeopardy? Hurling league finale struggles to match football’s chaos

Final round of hurling league offers limited suspense as Limerick, Cork and Dublin look set to confirm expectations

Galway's young lads have been impressive but trying to physically cope with Limerick’s power and physicality will test their capacity to absorb those hits. Pic: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

I’m heading for Dr Cullen Park in Carlow in this evening to do radio co-commentary on the Carlow-Dublin game in Division 1B. With all due respect to both teams, it’s not box office in comparison to the Limerick-Galway match in the Gaelic Grounds, but it’s been that kind of a league where it was always wishful thinking that we’d enter the final day packed with intrigue, excitement and mad-cap permutations.

Dare I say it, that’s become a guarantee for the football. There is more at stake in the football league compared to hurling but the football community are treated to a crazy last-day roulette of snakes-and-ladders this weekend every year while it almost feels like the hurling crowd are only trying to manufacture some drama.