Nemo lost the first round of the city championship and came back to win the whole county, good going from them, dug it out when it mattered in the end.
Will be interesting how they fare next year, football will naturally take precedence which should make a difference to their hurlers, balancing both will be more difficult given the format, they haven't had a hurling group stage in the city championship to contend with yet and the Junior A championships run longer than others, allowing players back, so next year will be a different kind of challenge for them.
The Junior A champions have won the Premier Junior at the first go the past two seasons, can't see Nemo doing the same given their football commitments, but the momentum may be there so I wouldn't be shocked either, I thought Erin's Own wouldn't do it this year either and they showed me.
Junior A championship will be interesting next season too, seems to be even enough.
Tracton will be one of the favourites coming down, but I don't think they're that far ahead of the top Junior A teams given what I've seen of Premier Junior, should be strong favourites in the south east though.
High hopes for our own lads in Ballinora as I reckon we're not too far off county wise, Grenagh should be the biggest threat in mid Cork and almost caught us this year.
Newmarket/Dromtarriffe will probably remain the top 2 in Duhallow and I imagine whoever comes out there won't be too far either.
Several sides in Avondhu who can be a threat on their day, definitely the toughest to call, and whoever gets out will be a threat in the county.
Imokilly seems to have weakened a bit, Carraig na bhFear looked the weakest east Cork winners I've seen in a few years, only 3 first teams left in the division can't be helping either, could be easily proven wrong here though, Cobh and Ita's being the other two.
Don't expect too much from Carbery sides county wise after seeing Clon this year, a lot of the teams strength here could be dictated by football performances however.
Vincent's could be frontrunners in the city, beat Nemo this year initially before being knocked out in their second meeting, thought Whitechurch would be better but collapsed against Nemo in the final. Passage were another name that was thrown around a bit in recent years but got well beaten by Whitechurch.
