You just don’t know with the league and how the leading counties are approaching it.
There is a perception that when two counties who have a much bigger date in their diary when the championship flag is unfurled meet up in the secondary competition, the winning team in that game may have gained some sort of a psychological edge.
That may or may not be the case and most intercounty managers will be at pains to stress that a league game in February, whatever the outcome or the victory margin is will have very little relevance when those same to counties collide in April or May and further on.
And that is probably the correct assessment.
Maybe on some occasions if the league game turns out to be a cracking affair, both side going at…