Tipperary are ready to fly - again

RIGHT, cards on the table from the off. For starters, this observer can’t see Tipperary not beating Cork tomorrow despite some qualms about their half-back line, and if it’s easy and lazy to speculate that the underdogs will give ‘em plenty of it before the MacCarthy Cup holders assert their authority in the closing quarter, then so be it.

Secondly, he expects Tipp to win the All-Ireland, quite feasibly after a couple of wide-margin victories en route, and he has money on them to do so (for the first time since 2001, if you really want to know).

Last but not least, he thinks Tipp could, subject to theusual terms and conditions, be a three-in-a-row team. So there.