Concerned? JBM’s seen it all before

ALLIANZ HL DIVISION 1A

Logic says it won’t come to this, with the men in the red jerseys falling through the trapdoor at the Gaelic Grounds tomorrow. Logic says the team that in their opening game of the league put 26 points on Tipperary won’t mark their concluding game by being relegated. Plain old common sense, never mind logic, ordains that Cork ought not to lose to Clare yet again this spring.

But in the event they do, what of it? The sun will still rise on Monday morning and Jimmy Barry-Murphy will get on with his preparations for the Munster semi-final. And somehow one doesn’t envisage disappointed Leesiders spending the week running around insisting to all and sundry that, to paraphrase Christy Ring, the top flight of the league will be ‘only half-dressed without Cork’ next year.