League spotting: Can Cork get back on track?

Choose life on a Sunday afternoon amid the rain and the raw. Choose a competition more a part of you than the Premier League or the Six Nations ever can be. Choose seeing various youngsters for the first time and spending the next few days speculating long and loud about which of them will make the grade and which of them will never be heard of again. Choose Davy and Cody and Michael Ryan and the two new lads in Clare. Choose the National Hurling League.
While you’re at it, choose to juggle with the following notion. That Cork may win the competition, or at any rate may go a long way towards it. Please don’t all splutter into your morning tea/coffee in symphony. There may not be a doctor on hand.