Anthony Daly: Will some teams be holding something back? Of course they will, to a point

When Dublin travelled to Cork for our last regular round league match in April 2011, we knew we had an outside chance of making a league final. We had to win, which was never going to be easy down there, and hope that Waterford would beat Galway, who also needed the two points to maintain their hopes of retaining their title.

Waterford didn’t seem to have a whole lot to play for because they were safe from relegation and apparently outside the reach of a league final.