Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Power Rankings.
Three rounds down, 24 group games played, eight teams still chasing the Michael Maher Cup and four facing into a battle for survival.
The group stages of the 2026 Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship have given us plenty of evidence to work with.
Some of it is obvious.
Kilsheelan/Kilcash are the only side to break the 100-point barrier. Borrisokane have the best defensive record. Ballingarry and Borrisokane went three from three. Carrick Davins produced one of the most extraordinary attacking turnarounds of the championship in Round 3.
Some of it is far less obvious.
Shannon Rovers are out despite scoring more than 28 points per game and finishing with a scoring difference of +17. Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams are also out despite scoring 80 points and finishing with a positive scoring difference.
Arravale Rovers, meanwhile, possess the second-highest scoring attack in the competition but have also conceded more than all but two teams.
That is why these are Power Rankings, not simply a reproduction of the championship tables.
Form, performance, opposition, scoring power, defensive record, championship trajectory and what lies ahead all come into it.
And after leading our rankings through Rounds 1 and 2, we finally have a new No.1.
Here are The Premier View Intermediate Hurling Power Rankings after Round 3, counting down from 16 to 1.
16. Clonoulty/Rossmore ↓1
Championship record: P3 W0 L3
Scored: 49, 16.33 per game
Conceded: 108, 36.00 per game
Scoring difference: -59
Previous ranking: 15
There is no disguising the numbers.
Clonoulty/Rossmore drop to the bottom of the rankings after the most damaging Round 3 performance of any team in the competition.
Their 0-08 to 3-29 defeat to Portroe was not simply another loss. It was a performance that should set alarm bells ringing ahead of the relegation series.
At half-time, Portroe led only 1-09 to 0-06.
Then the game completely disintegrated from a Clonoulty point of view.
They were held scoreless for the opening 25 minutes of the second half and managed only another two points after the interval as Portroe disappeared over the horizon.
Across three championship games, Clonoulty have conceded 108 points, an average of exactly 36 per game. No other Intermediate side has conceded 100.
Their scoring difference of -59 is also comfortably the poorest in the championship.
This isn’t simply a case of a team being unlucky in a difficult group. Clonoulty were beaten by Kilsheelan/Kilcash, Kickhams and Portroe and conceded at least 29 points worth of scores in all three games.
The West side now face Carrick Davins in New Inn on Saturday in a relegation semi-final.
Based on Round 3 form, they need a significant response.
15. Carrick Davins ↑1
Championship record: P3 W1 L2
Scored: 48, 16.00 per game
Conceded: 83, 27.67 per game
Scoring difference: -35
Previous ranking: 16
At last, some light.
Carrick Davins move off the bottom of our rankings for the first time this season after a remarkable Round 3 victory over Arravale Rovers.
And whatever mitigating circumstances existed for Arravale, 5-16 is 5-16.
The transformation in the Davins attack was extraordinary.
They scored just 1-06 against Shannon Rovers in Round 1.
They followed it with only 0-08 against Clonakenny.
That meant Davins had accumulated just 17 points worth of scores across their first two games.
Then they exploded for 5-16, or 31 points, in one afternoon against the team sitting at No.1 in our rankings.
In other words, almost 65% of Carrick Davins’ entire group-stage scoring total came in Round 3.
Yes, Arravale had already qualified. Yes, they were managing personnel.
But a team that had looked almost incapable of putting up a winning total suddenly found five goals and 31 points worth of scores.
That has to matter.
The challenge now is reproducing some of it when the stakes are considerably higher.
Davins meet Clonoulty/Rossmore in Saturday’s relegation semi-final and, suddenly, this does not look like the completely forlorn Davins side we saw earlier in the championship.
For the first time this season, there is genuine evidence that the scoring power is there.
14. Ballybacon-Grange ↔
Championship record: P3 W0 L3
Scored: 52, 17.33 per game
Conceded: 72, 24.00 per game
Scoring difference: -20
Previous ranking: 14
Death, taxes and Ballybacon-Grange finding themselves in a relegation battle.
They seem to live permanently on the edge at this grade, yet they also have an extraordinary habit of surviving.
Could they do it again?
Their three championship defeats mean they finished bottom of Group 4, but the performances have not been as poor as an 0-3 record might suggest.
They pushed Moyle Rovers in a 3-16 to 2-17 defeat and gave unbeaten Borrisokane plenty to think about in Round 3.
Ballybacon actually led Borrisokane for around 40 minutes and Shane Ryan’s goal put them in a position where an upset looked possible.
Eventually Borrisokane’s quality told, Philip Austin’s introduction proving pivotal, but Ballybacon were still competitive in a 1-18 to 1-12 loss.
Paul Cummins has also become increasingly important to their attack.
He accumulated 0-26 across the three group games, including 0-07 in Round 3, and gives Ballybacon a reliable scoring platform heading into the game that now matters most.
Their relegation semi-final with Holycross/Ballycahill in Golden could be one of the most finely balanced games of the weekend.
Ballybacon have been here before.
That experience counts.
13. Holycross/Ballycahill ↔
Championship record: P3 W0 D1 L2
Scored: 53, 17.67 per game
Conceded: 68, 22.67 per game
Scoring difference: -15
Previous ranking: 13
The 2025 Junior A champions have discovered exactly how unforgiving the step into Intermediate hurling can be.
Round 1 was a brutal introduction.
Cappawhite beat them 0-22 to 0-11, leaving Holycross with an eleven-point defeat and plenty to digest.
But their championship has improved since.
Against Skeheenarinky they dramatically increased their attacking output, scoring 4-12, and were desperately close to collecting their first win before being forced to settle for a 4-12 to 1-21 draw.
Then came another respectable performance against unbeaten Ballingarry.
Holycross lost 1-19 to 1-15, but a four-point defeat against one of only two teams to win all three group matches represents considerable progress from where they were in Round 1.
Their final numbers are still modest, 53 scored, 68 conceded, but the trajectory is much more encouraging than the bare table suggests.
That matters when entering relegation.
Holycross are 0-1-2 in the championship, but the side walking into Golden on Sunday looks a better team than the one that walked off after Round 1.
Whether that improvement has come quickly enough will be decided against Ballybacon-Grange.
12. Moyle Rovers ↓2
Championship record: P3 W1 L2
Scored: 58, 19.33 per game
Conceded: 68, 22.67 per game
Scoring difference: -10
Previous ranking: 10
A disappointing end to a championship that promised more.
Moyle Rovers were Junior A champions in 2024 and reached the Intermediate quarter-finals in their first season after promotion in 2025.
That established expectations.
They have not matched them in 2026.
Their campaign opened with a respectable 0-22 to 0-17 loss to Borrisokane, before a valuable 3-16 to 2-17 win over Ballybacon-Grange kept their knockout ambitions alive.
That left Round 3 against Newport as effectively a winner-takes-all contest.
Moyle were competitive for long stretches, trailing only 1-09 to 0-09 at the interval, but Newport finished the stronger and pulled away to win 1-20 to 0-16.
The final numbers tell the story of a team that was competitive without consistently possessing enough firepower.
They averaged 19.33 points per game, significantly below the leading contenders.
Their year is now over.
But this does not feel like a team facing a major rebuild. There is emerging talent at Minor level and evidence from 2025 that Moyle are capable of operating in the knockout stages at Intermediate.
Their task is to make 2026 the setback rather than the trend.
11. Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams ↓2
Championship record: P3 W1 L2
Scored: 80, 26.67 per game
Conceded: 79, 26.33 per game
Scoring difference: +1
Previous ranking: 9
This is the most dramatic fall from grace in the rankings.
County finalists in 2025.
Out before the knockout stages in 2026.
And what makes the story stranger is that Kickhams’ attacking numbers are not remotely disastrous.
They scored 80 points across three games, an average of 26.67 per match, the joint fourth-highest attacking output in the competition.
Their scoring difference was actually +1.
Yet they finished with only one county championship victory.
Round 1 set the tone. Kickhams scored 0-21 against Portroe but lost by a single point, 1-19 to 0-21.
They responded by beating Clonoulty/Rossmore 2-26 to 3-16, but their fate was sealed against Kilsheelan/Kilcash, despite scoring 4-15 themselves.
Kilsheelan found a way to get to 1-29 and win by five.
Stephen Browne remained productive across the campaign, while there were flashes from elsewhere, but Kickhams never found the consistency or defensive solidity that carried them to last year’s county final.
Across their three games, they conceded 79 points, just one fewer than they scored.
The highs of 2025 feel a long way away now.
A season that began with realistic championship ambition is over before the quarter-finals.
10. Shannon Rovers ↑1
Championship record: P3 W1 L2
Scored: 86, 28.67 per game
Conceded: 69, 23.00 per game
Scoring difference: +17
Previous ranking: 11
Possibly the unluckiest team in the championship.
The numbers almost look like those of a quarter-finalist.
86 points scored.
Only Kilsheelan/Kilcash and Arravale Rovers scored more.
A scoring difference of +17.
Better than six of the seven teams guaranteed to be involved in the knockout stages.
And yet Shannon Rovers are out.
Their championship was shaped by moments.
They obliterated Carrick Davins 6-18 to 1-06 in Round 1, immediately establishing themselves as a serious attacking side.
Then came the game that will haunt them.
Against Arravale Rovers in Round 2, Rovers were in a position to take a major result before a late Arravale goal swung the contest, Shannon eventually losing 2-21 to 1-22.
That left them needing a result against Clonakenny.
And contrary to what the eventual eight-point margin might suggest, Shannon did not disappear quietly.
They were eleven points down after just 16 minutes, with Clonakenny leading 3-05 to 0-03.
Rovers fought all the way back.
Conal Moran’s goals were central to the comeback and, by the 38th minute, the sides were level at 2-13 to 3-10.
Clonakenny then regained control and eventually won 3-24 to 2-19.
Conal Moran finished the group stages with a huge scoring contribution, while Shannon had attacking support from the likes of Austin Tierney, Eamonn Hough and Andy Byrne.
Ultimately, though, great aggregate numbers do not guarantee qualification.
Shannon scored enough.
They simply did not win enough.
That is why a side with the third-best attack in Intermediate hurling is ranked tenth and finished for the year.
9. Skeheenarinky ↑3
Championship record: P3 D1 L2
Scored: 67, 22.33 per game
Conceded: 77, 25.67 per game
Scoring difference: -10
Previous ranking: 12
Skeheenarinky are one of the more unusual teams left in the competition.
They did not win a county group game.
But they are still alive.
Their route comes through their status as South champions and Sunday’s preliminary quarter-final against Newport in Sean Treacy Park.
The group results show why Skeheen cannot be written off.
They lost 1-19 to 0-16 against Ballingarry in Round 1.
They drew 1-21 to 4-12 with Holycross/Ballycahill in Round 2.
Then they pushed Cappawhite hard before losing 2-25 to 3-18.
That Round 3 game may have produced the most important individual performance of Skeheen’s championship.
Darragh Brennan scored 1-07, all from play.
Across the entire group stage, Brennan accumulated 23 points worth of scores, with 22 coming from play, a remarkable level of open-play productivity.
If Skeheen can get that sort of output from him again, Newport have a serious problem to solve.
The frustration is obvious.
A side capable of pushing Ballingarry and Cappawhite so hard should feel they left something behind by only drawing with Holycross.
But their championship remains alive.
At this stage of the year, that is all that matters.
8. Newport ↓1
Championship record: P3 W2 L1
Scored: 69, 23.00 per game
Conceded: 56, 18.67 per game
Scoring difference: +13
Previous ranking: 7
Newport drop one place despite winning in Round 3, which says more about movement around them than any major concerns about their own form.
The most encouraging Newport statistic is not their scoring.
It is their defence.
They conceded only 56 points across three group games, an average of 18.67.
Only Borrisokane and Ballingarry conceded fewer.
Newport opened with a convincing 0-26 to 0-14 win over Ballybacon-Grange, before losing 2-20 to 1-17 against Borrisokane.
That set up a decisive meeting with Moyle Rovers.
They delivered.
Pa Ryan’s goal provided the key first-half separation and Newport gradually took control after the break, with Colin Floyd, Charlie Tobin, Odhran Floyd and Callum Poole all contributing.
The eventual 1-20 to 0-16 victory booked their place in Sunday’s preliminary quarter-final.
Colin Floyd has been a major scoring presence, while the evidence from the group stages suggests Newport’s defensive platform gives them a chance in any tight knockout game.
They will need to be better for longer against Skeheenarinky, but there is an increasingly solid look to this Newport side.
Given the underage talent that should become available over the next couple of seasons, the longer-term trajectory is also positive.
First things first.
Win Sunday and they are into a county quarter-final.
7. Cappawhite ↑1
Championship record: P3 W2 L1
Scored: 74, 24.67 per game
Conceded: 64, 21.33 per game
Scoring difference: +10
Previous ranking: 8
Trying to assess Cappawhite remains a challenge.
Their best hurling looks capable of troubling anyone in the competition.
Their poorer spells can appear without warning.
They opened the county championship with a comfortable 0-22 to 0-11 win over Holycross/Ballycahill.
Then came a very poor Round 2 performance against Ballingarry, where they were beaten 3-17 to 1-18.
Round 3 brought the required response.
Cappawhite beat Skeheenarinky 2-25 to 3-18, moving to 2-1 and booking their quarter-final place.
But even that game came with a warning.
Cappawhite had established a lead of as much as 12 points before Skeheen reduced the final margin to four.
The positive was the attacking contribution of Dara McCarthy and Conor Martin.
Both produced 1-04 from play against Skeheenarinky.
That is exactly the sort of secondary scoring Cappawhite need if they are going to make a serious run at this championship.
Across the group stage they scored 74 and conceded 64, leaving them with a healthy +10 difference.
Those are solid numbers without being dominant numbers.
Cappawhite are dangerous.
The question is whether they can put 60 good minutes together against one of the group winners.
6. Portroe ↔
Championship record: P3 W2 L1
Scored: 80, 26.67 per game
Conceded: 61, 20.33 per game
Scoring difference: +19
Previous ranking: 6
The Liam Sheedy effect?
There is certainly plenty happening in Portroe.
The North champions began their county campaign by edging last year’s finalists Kickhams 1-19 to 0-21.
They were then given a serious reality check by Kilsheelan/Kilcash, losing 4-20 to 2-14.
How they responded was always going to tell us something.
The answer was emphatic.
Portroe dismantled Clonoulty/Rossmore 3-29 to 0-08 in Round 3.
And the second-half numbers were savage.
Portroe led just 1-09 to 0-06 at half-time.
From there, they outscored Clonoulty 2-20 to 0-02.
Sam Madden produced a man-of-the-match display, John Sheedy continued to carry a scoring threat, while Conor O’Brien, Mark Gennery, Cian Hogan, Diarmuid Boyle and Robert Byrne all contributed.
That breadth is important.
Portroe have now scored 80 points across three games, the joint fourth-highest total in the championship, while conceding only 61.
Their +19 scoring difference is second only to Kilsheelan/Kilcash.
They are through to the quarter-finals as an unseeded side.
And there is the problem for the group winners.
Nobody will want Portroe coming out beside them.
5. Clonakenny ↔
Championship record: P3 W2 L1
Scored: 79, 26.33 per game
Conceded: 68, 22.67 per game
Scoring difference: +11
Previous ranking: 5
Clonakenny remain exactly where they have been throughout our rankings.
Fifth.
But they may be considerably more dangerous than that number suggests.
Their county campaign began with a 3-26 to 2-20 defeat against Arravale Rovers.
Rather than allowing that nine-point loss to derail them, Clonakenny responded with two wins.
First came a comfortable 1-17 to 0-08 victory over Carrick Davins.
Then came the decisive game against Shannon Rovers.
Clonakenny raced into an eleven-point lead, surrendered all of it as Shannon fought back to draw level, and then showed the composure to wrestle the game back from them and eventually win 3-24 to 2-19.
That was revealing.
They can hurt teams early.
They can also recover when momentum swings against them.
Bobby Bergin has been outstanding.
His group-stage scoring amounted to 2-16, all from play.
That is elite production at this grade.
Cian O’Dwyer has supplied a reliable placed-ball threat, while Michael John Carroll’s goals have added another dimension.
Clonakenny scored 79 across the group and finished with a +11 scoring difference.
Their reward is a county quarter-final, although as an unseeded team they will meet one of the four group winners.
Nobody in the top four should view that as a comfortable draw.
4. Borrisokane ↔
Championship record: P3 W3 L0
Scored: 69, 23.00 per game
Conceded: 52, 17.33 per game
Scoring difference: +17
Previous ranking: 4
Three games.
Three wins.
The best defence in the championship.
And still only fourth.
Borrisokane supporters can reasonably argue that we are underrating them.
There is certainly a compelling case.
They conceded just 52 points across the group stages, an average of 17.33 per game, the lowest figure of any team in the competition.
Their results have also been remarkably consistent.
They beat Moyle Rovers by five.
They beat Newport by six.
They beat Ballybacon-Grange by six.
No fireworks, no wild fluctuations, just three wins from three.
That feels very Borrisokane.
Their Round 3 performance was particularly useful because Ballybacon made them work for it.
The South side led for long periods and Shane Ryan’s goal threatened an upset.
Borrisokane did not panic.
Philip Austin came from the bench, scored the crucial goal and helped turn the game.
Meanwhile, Oisín Larkin continues to provide the scoring foundation.
He accumulated 1-26 across the three group games, while Jack Larkin’s influence cannot simply be measured through his own scoring return.
His movement, work and general play have been hugely valuable to the Borrisokane attack.
They were county semi-finalists last year after reaching a quarter-final the year before.
This is not a surprise package anymore.
Borrisokane have been around the business end of this championship for long enough.
The only question left is whether they can finally turn consistency into a county final appearance.
3. Ballingarry ↔
Championship record: P3 W3 L0
Scored: 70, 23.33 per game
Conceded: 55, 18.33 per game
Scoring difference: +15
Previous ranking: 3
Ballingarry remain third, and the case for moving them even higher is growing.
They are one of only two teams to complete the group stage with a perfect record.
Three games.
Three wins.
Only 55 points conceded, the second-best defensive return in the competition.
The margins have not been enormous, but perhaps that makes their record even more impressive.
They beat Skeheenarinky by six.
They beat Cappawhite by five.
They beat Holycross/Ballycahill by four.
Every time a game has required Ballingarry to finish the job, they have finished it.
That matters.
The memory of Cappawhite’s injury-time knockout blow in 2025 has not disappeared, and there is a sense that Ballingarry have carried some of that frustration into this campaign.
Dylan Walsh remains central to everything.
He accumulated 22 points worth of scores across the three group games, while Jack Cahill has added a significant new attacking threat.
Then there is Simon Blackmore.
His return from injury could be a major factor in the knockout stages. Blackmore came off the bench and scored two points against Cappawhite before adding another two in Round 3.
If his body allows him to play a full part from here, the Ballingarry forward unit suddenly has another proven option.
Their attack has not produced the monster totals of Kilsheelan or Arravale.
Their defence has been substantially better.
And they keep winning.
At this stage of the championship, that is the most important statistic of all.
2. Arravale Rovers ↓1
Championship record: P3 W2 L1
Scored: 89, 29.67 per game
Conceded: 82, 27.33 per game
Scoring difference: +7
Previous ranking: 1
For the first time this season, Arravale Rovers are not No.1.
Let’s put the Round 3 defeat into context first.
They had already secured their knockout position and were managing a number of players.
So a dead-rubber loss does not suddenly erase everything we have seen from them.
But the manner of it cannot be completely ignored either.
Carrick Davins scored 5-16 against them.
That was a Davins side that had scored only 1-06 and 0-08 in its previous two games.
Arravale still put up 0-27, which tells you plenty about their own attacking ability.
Indeed, they have scored 89 points across the group stage, an average of 29.67 per game.
Only Kilsheelan/Kilcash have scored more.
The concern is at the other end.
Arravale have conceded 82 points, an average of 27.33.
Only Carrick Davins and Clonoulty/Rossmore conceded more during the group stages.
That is an extraordinary statistical contrast for a leading championship contender.
Second-best attack. Third-worst defensive total.
Their opening win over Clonakenny now looks increasingly impressive and they followed that by finding a way past Shannon Rovers in Round 2.
The attacking personnel remain excellent.
Sean O’Mahony accumulated 2-20 during the three rounds, while Orrin Jones remains a major scoring weapon.
But knockout hurling has a way of exposing weaknesses that group-stage firepower can sometimes conceal.
Arravale remain one of the favourites.
They just aren’t our No.1 anymore.
1. Kilsheelan/Kilcash ↑1
Championship record: P3 W3 L0
Scored: 102, 34.00 per game
Conceded: 63, 21.00 per game
Scoring difference: +39
Previous ranking: 2
The new No.1.
And the numbers make a powerful case.
102 points scored.
No other team reached 90.
34 points per game.
The best attacking average in the competition.
Nine goals.
And a +39 scoring difference, twenty points better than the next-best differential in the championship.
Kilsheelan/Kilcash have not merely won their group.
They have battered the scoreboard.
Round 1: 4-26, 38 points.
Round 2: 4-20, 32 points.
Round 3: 1-29, 32 points.
That means Kilsheelan have scored at least 32 points worth of scores in every single championship game.
Nobody else can say that.
The quality and variety of their attack is what separates them.
Barry Kehoe has contributed 1-17 across the group stages, all from play.
Mark Kehoe has hit 3-10.
Martin Gibbs has contributed 0-21.
Between those three players alone, Kilsheelan have generated 60 of their 102 points worth of scores.
And that does not account for the contributions coming from elsewhere.
Senan Butler has chipped in with goals. Jamie Roche has found the net. Mikey Maguire and Paul Maher have also supplied scores.
Against Kickhams, they did not even need to start Mark Kehoe.
He came on and scored two points anyway.
That is what championship depth looks like.
Their margins have narrowed as the group stages progressed, from a 22-point demolition of Clonoulty/Rossmore to a 12-point win over Portroe and then a five-point victory over Kickhams.
You could view that as a warning.
Or you could view it as evidence that even when an opponent scores 4-15, Kilsheelan still find a way to put 1-29 on the board and win.
Their defensive numbers are not quite at Borrisokane or Ballingarry levels, but 63 conceded across three games is still comfortably in the stronger half of the championship.
The attack is what changes the equation.
Right now, everybody else appears to be trying to work out how to stop them.
Kilsheelan/Kilcash have gone 4th → 2nd → 1st in our three sets of rankings.
They are the form team.
They are the highest-scoring team.
They have the best scoring difference.
And heading into the quarter-finals, they are the team to beat.
The Premier View Intermediate Power Rankings After Round 3
| Rank | Club | Previous | Championship record | For | Against | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kilsheelan/Kilcash | 2 | 3-0-0 | 102 | 63 | +39 |
| 2 | Arravale Rovers | 1 | 2-0-1 | 89 | 82 | +7 |
| 3 | Ballingarry | 3 | 3-0-0 | 70 | 55 | +15 |
| 4 | Borrisokane | 4 | 3-0-0 | 69 | 52 | +17 |
| 5 | Clonakenny | 5 | 2-0-1 | 79 | 68 | +11 |
| 6 | Portroe | 6 | 2-0-1 | 80 | 61 | +19 |
| 7 | Cappawhite | 8 | 2-0-1 | 74 | 64 | +10 |
| 8 | Newport | 7 | 2-0-1 | 69 | 56 | +13 |
| 9 | Skeheenarinky | 12 | 0-1-2 | 67 | 77 | -10 |
| 10 | Shannon Rovers | 11 | 1-0-2 | 86 | 69 | +17 |
| 11 | Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams | 9 | 1-0-2 | 80 | 79 | +1 |
| 12 | Moyle Rovers | 10 | 1-0-2 | 58 | 68 | -10 |
| 13 | Holycross/Ballycahill | 13 | 0-1-2 | 53 | 68 | -15 |
| 14 | Ballybacon-Grange | 14 | 0-0-3 | 52 | 72 | -20 |
| 15 | Carrick Davins | 16 | 1-0-2 | 48 | 83 | -35 |
| 16 | Clonoulty/Rossmore | 15 | 0-0-3 | 49 | 108 | -59 |
What Comes Next?
The group winners, Kilsheelan/Kilcash, Arravale Rovers, Ballingarry and Borrisokane, are through to the quarter-finals.
They will be joined by Portroe, Clonakenny and Cappawhite, plus the winner of the preliminary quarter-final between Skeheenarinky and Newport.
That game takes place at 2.00pm on Sunday, September 6 in Sean Treacy Park, Tipperary Town.
At the other end of the table, championship survival is on the line.
Clonoulty/Rossmore v Carrick Davins takes place at 2.00pm on Saturday, September 5 in New Inn.
Holycross/Ballycahill v Ballybacon-Grange follows at 1.00pm on Sunday, September 6 in Golden.
The group stages have told us plenty.
But power rankings, scoring averages and form lines only take you so far.
From here, one bad hour ends a championship.
And right now, Kilsheelan/Kilcash are the side everyone else has to catch.