Baker admits facing Rebels ‘a huge ask’

Following yesterday morning’s All-Ireland qualifier draws, Offaly being drawn to head for Cork in two weeks to take on the home side for the right to progress one step closer to an All-Ireland quarter-final, Ollie Baker had a touch of the Humphrey Bogart Casablanca blues — “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”

Of all the draws Offaly could possibly have got, they’re walked into this.

“Damn it, it couldn’t have been worse!” was his reaction.