Senior hurling/football.

April for the clubs they said. Well half of it anyway. It seems like the club player, the life and soul of the GAA, is no longer a top-table diner. There was widespread angst last week when a proposal to the Cork County Board suggested that they play certain games without their County players. Was it really such a drastic proposal? Playing our national games with the sun on your back in May, June and July. Isn’t that what the 5% of players who make up the Inter-County scene will be doing while the 95% are divided between short-term emigration, weddings, holidays and making up scratch teams for meaningless leagues. Perhaps its time for a club players version of Brexit. For the moment though we must carry on and Saturday takes us to Baile Beag where we take on St. Mary’s in Round 1 of the Seamus O’ Riain with a 4.30 throw-in. An eight point victory over the same opposition last August was hard earned and expect Saturday to be no different. Our other group opponents, Clonakenny and Cashel, do battle in Boherlahan at 6pm. A weeks rest and into the West (again) as we switch to the big ball and take on Ballyporeen in the first round of the County Senior Football Championship in Golden at 5pm. Ardfinnan and Kildangan make up Group 2 and lock horns in Boherlahan on Sunday 13th at 1.30pm.