Kieran Shannon: The serious business of the league will be taking place off-Broadway

There's a few words that should crop up quite frequently during the upcoming Allianz Leagues — development, competitive, even fun — but one go-to term that should be banned from all coverage of any current Division One team is crisis.

You’re familiar with the genre. Marty down the country on a Monday, Keys and Fogarty in the papers on a Tuesday, even yours truly maybe still at it on a Wednesday, highlighting and querying why some team that was not long ago playing in September are now dicing with relegation and what a ‘disaster’ the drop would be.