All on the line as neighbours Carbery Rangers and Clonakilty fight for survival 

Ballinacarriga will host the tie with the most riding on it in Cork this weekend. 

TURNING POINT: Peader O'Rourke, of Carbery Rangers, under pressure from the Barrs' Billy Hennessy in their Cork Premier SFC game. The West Cork outfit aim to avoid a relegation play-off. Picture: Denis Boyle

Both Carbery Rangers and Clonakilty camps politely declined our advances this week. Utterly understandable, mind. This wasn’t a week for talking, not when both have done so little of it on the field to date. The talking will be done on Sunday.

Ballincollig versus Douglas, at Ballygarvan, is the top-shelf Cork football championship fixture most relevant to the knockout phase. That fixture will determine who takes the last remaining quarter-final spot. That is the fixture carrying the most attractive prize.