Well it seems everybody knew the Cork players strike would adversely affect the National Hurling League, except the GAA.
While they were busy selling off chunks of games to different broadcasters, negotiating with 6 different companies to get sponsorship money and designing a snazzy new logo the forgot about the games themselves.
As a result we now have Cork playing off against Waterford for a qualification spot in Division 1A but Wexford relegated in place of Dublin because of points difference, a system we were told would not be used due to the disparity in games played.
No one can deny Wexford deserve to be relegated and I would agree that Dublin are almost certainly the second best team in Leinster now. After a good start against Waterford, Wexford were awful in the rest of the campaign and if they had played better they would not be in this situation.
However the entire problem was caused by Cork, players and county board. They should not have been allowed back in to the league, and when they were, a points deduction should have been placed on them.
In recent years the league has improved in hurling and is a well established platform for teams to build on now, look at Waterford last year.
But this year a short sighted and frankly stupid dispute was dealt with in an inept way by Croke Park and all the other counties are being made to suffer.
Lets hope whoever Cork meet in the next round, Limerick or Tipp, they are knocked out and end the farce that is there involvement in this years National Hurling League.
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