Cork are tipped to topple Tipperary in the hurling league final this Sunday

Cork are hot odds-on favourites at 2/9 with BoyleSports to land their first National Hurling League title since 1998 ahead of a sell-out decider this weekend against Tipperary.

A dominant display against Galway set the Rebels up for Sunday’s final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in what will be the first meeting between the Munster rivals in a league decider since 1960.

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Table toppers Tipperary, whose fine run of league form included a four-point success over their eventual final opponents in February, will take to the pitch as 11/4 underdogs according to the oddsmakers in their bid for a first league crown in 17 years.

Dubliner Sean Stack has been named as the referee for Sunday’s clash and will be a familiar face to Liam Cahill’s men having dished out four red cards in the space of ten minutes during their victory over Kilkenny last month, amid a spate of National League dismissals for head-high tackles.  

Now former Cork dual star Eoin Cadogan, who won Munster titles with the county Hurlers in 2014 and 2018, has called for referees to be given help with the introduction of a video assistant.

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Speaking exclusively to BoyleSports, for whom Cadogan is a Gaelic Games ambassador, the former full-back said: “There’s been a lot of attention about head-high contact and it’s the one thing in the game I would look at where changes might be needed. Will there be consistency from the referees when we go into the Championship? 

“I do think they need some sort of help with the pace of the game – can we help them and what does it look like? Is it two referees on the pitch? Or is it a VAR situation where there is a massive decision to make and they analyse whether it was head contact or not, and is it a red? Referees are human, they only have a split second, so let’s help them out.” 

National Hurling League Division 1A 

2/9        Cork

11/4      Tipperary