After 4 week bans on the 4 Clare and 3 Cork players were confirmed we get a reactionary statement from the Clare county board chairman suggesting they could pull out of the championship. Why on earth would they do that? It’s all to do with the parochial, sense of injustice, no one respects us attitude that seems to have a hold on most smaller GAA county boards and officials. They’re players were involved in a very bad looking fight before the game had even started, they fully deserve to be banned and they’re lucky at 4 weeks and 1 game that it’s a relatively light ban. It’s only going to affect them for the first round of the qualifiers.

However their manager Tony Considine has said that they wouldn’t be pulling out. Realistically it’s highly unlikely they would and the comment was just a heat of the moment one.

Cork have the more pressing problems as they prepare for Sunday’s game against Waterford without the services of three very key players, Donal Og Cusack, Diarmuid O’Sullivan and Sean Og O’Hailpin. John Gardiner was freed to play after he was cleared of any wrong doing. Waterford may have been favourites anyway but this will certainly make them odds on. In the betting shops you can get around 4-6 Waterford and 11-8 Cork.

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