Cork pay game-time price

CORK coach John Allen believes that the Munster and Leinster hurling champions should gain some benefit going forward to the All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals.

He also claimed yesterday that the four provincial finalists will be at a slight disadvantage in that the teams which qualify from the new round robin system will each have two games played after the provincial deciders.

However, after seeing his team survive Tipperary’s comeback in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday, he has no real complaints.