Form teams of league now drinking in last chance saloon

Wexford, five games from five. Dublin flying in year four under Mattie Kenny. Waterford, the team that will take down Limerick, could win the league, and will arguably play Limerick three times this year in the championship. Cork flying. Is this the end of the Limerick team? Are Galway really making any progress under Henry? Is it time that Brian Cody hangs up his baseball cap?

Well, this was all the commentary throughout the league.

It would make you laugh really.

Are we ever going to learn that the league is just the league, and few learnings can come from it? When you look at the teams in the league who were flying and gathering pace, compared to the teams that started as slow as snails, it really would make a fool of you. If Cork beat Tipperary at the weekend, which is now a huge possibility, Waterford will be out. Hard to believe really.

I have no problem in putting my hand up and saying I think a lot of this Waterford set up. I do believe they are the second best team in the country. But is it a case that the talk of that has set into the minds of the players and they have expected things to happen, rather than making things happen?

So much has been made of this Waterford group in recent months. Their last few games have been lacklustre. They struggled to get over the line against Tipp, beaten by Limerick, and maybe those two goals at the end glossed over how they really are going, and they were poor against Cork.

It's hard to put your finger on it really. Is it solely a case that Walsh Park doesn't suit them? Well I don’t buy that anyway.

Coming into last weekend, I fully thought that this weekend would be a weekend of dead rubbers. I thought Cork and Tipperary would be playing for pride, and OK fair enough Waterford v