James Skehill

I mean, Scale, you've said this a few times.

Everyone wants to draw Cork away in the league.

you decouple the two championships from the All-Ireland Series and what you do is you have them before the championships start and maybe they just affect seeding.

But the thing is, if you have like the Munster Championship this year where the first three rounds, the tickets didn't even go on general sale for those.

Like that's the demand for those games to be played.

If you've got a product that's that good, you would never want to deliberately pull that down.

I think that discussion will only happen if at some point interest goes out of round robins because maybe we get bored of them or something like that.

But almost the two years with COVID where we went back to knockout,

meant that everyone was hungry for it again and then the minute it came back and we go games and people went do you know what actually this month's championship is the best thing ever and in fairness to Leinster this year it was exciting it went down to the final day we had Kenny in Dublin very exciting guys do you know like I mean I'm not saying that the standard is as good as Munster is and this was probably not even the most classic Munster championship of all time but the reality is that this has probably given Leinster another year now because off year a little bit more competitive and now there's a bit of a fight for the top three maybe Kenny are kind of going backwards a little bit and it gives hope to everyone else to finish in the top three

I think the provincials in their current format are here for a while.

I appreciate what a lot of people are saying, that maybe the Leinster teams continue to fall further behind.

But that's not Munster Hurling's... It's not up to them to make those teams better, unfortunately.

So we shall see where it goes.

There's plenty of other rock-style questions which are coming in here at the moment.

I'll paraphrase a few of them here, Dermot.

How important is it for Cork...

to get over the line this year?

And maybe this question could have been asked over the last 21 years.

But for this group, given that Cork have got close, given the second half of the final last year, how important is actually getting hands on the Lee McCarthy this year?

Yeah.