All-round power to swing it for Cork

GROUNDHOG day is here again. The mock exam before the Leaving Cert. The rehearsal. The don’t-worry-if-you-miss-this-bus-another-one-will-be-coming.

And yet it has the ingredients to fascinate both the players and ourselves. A crowd close to the 43,000 capacity in Fitzgerald Stadium will turn up expecting the lack of incentive for winning not to matter an iota.

And they would be right.