Shades of 1999 again in Semple as young players take to field

Shades of the 1999 instalment to this one.

You know the Munster semi-final where Waterford, All-Ireland semi-finalists the August prior, arrived as roaring hot favourites to Semple Stadium. Cork, under new manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy, featured six championship debutants determined to commence the county’s rebuilding phase.

And so it was roles reversed yesterday, the storyline, however, strikingly familiar.