Battle weary Galway march on while keyboard warriors revel in Rebel defeat

KEYBOARD warriors and computer hurlers everywhere were clearly delighted by the Cork hurlers’ defeat by Galway on Saturday night.

Going by the evidence in various chatrooms and fora over the last couple of days, it’s obvious that many observers were waiting patiently for Cork to crash out of the championship to have a tap-dance on the grave of their All-Ireland ambitions.

What we’re more concerned with here is whether last Saturday’s game says about the hurling championship this year and “going” “forward”, as we don’t really like to put it.