'Cork looked like they'd eaten a four-course meal at half time... stuck to the ground in comparison to Tipp'

Cork endured a nightmare of a second half as they were completely blown away by a rampant Tipperary, outscored by 3-14 to 0-2. 

It was GUBU. It was grotesque. It was unbelievable. It was bizarre. It was unprecedented.

Here we look at the key moments of which will have left all Cork fans shell-shocked.

Goals:

Cork had scored four goals against the Premier county in each of their last three championship matches. They had also buried three goals in the league final in SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh, so Tipp were extremely focused on halting the Cork goal machine.

Tipp played a sweeper to curtail this threat and it worked, right up to the point where Rob Downey and Mark Coleman put Shane Barrett through on Rhys Shelly’s goal with the last play of the first half and he buried it to give Cork a six-point lead.

It was mere rope-a-dope stuff though as Tipp plundered three in the second half to blow Cork away to ensure the Rebel famine continues.

Tipp onslaught:

Tipperary scored 1-5 unanswered in the first 10 minutes of the second half to leave Cork on the floor.

It took a Shane Barrett point in the 46th minute to briefly settle Cork but the tide was only going one way. 

Cork completely froze and Tipp hurled with abandon. 

Cork resembled a team who'd eaten a four-course meal at half time. They were stuck to the ground in comparison to the Tipp players.

The onslaught became a tidal wave. Cork still only had one point after 26 minutes of hurling as Tipp scored at will. Cork's second point was not added until minute 65 when Seamus Harnedy clipped over. In the end it was embarrassing.

Penalty and red card:

There was no coming back after Eoin Downey conceded a penalty and received a second yellow card in the 53rd minute. Cork were a beaten team.

The Glen man will have felt he was pushed in the build-up but management should have replaced him once he had been booked.

Cahill factor:

At the back of the minds of both the Cork and Tipperary players and management was the memories of the 2018 All-Ireland U21 between the two counties at the Gaelic Grounds. Tipp turned around a 13-point defeat in Munster to shock the Rebels by 3-13 to 1-16 thanks to a late Conor Stakelum goal.

Liam Cahill inspired that turnaround and the Premier were looking to do similar here.

Eight of Cork's panel on Sunday were involved on that painful day and that would have been motivation enough to ensure that history did not repeat itself on Sunday.

Unfortunately, Cork were completely mauled in the second half. 

It will be extremely hard for the group to come back from this, such was the manner of the defeat.

It all looked so good at half time as the Cork half forward line dominated, but Tipp completely cleaned them out after the change of ends.

Duds:

Diarmuid Healy looked like a veteran in the first half with his influence.

He scored the opening point of the game after just 13 seconds and showed great vision and executed a perfect hand pass for Niall O’Leary to bang over a 13th-minute effort, before slicing over another point soon after.

He was then fouled for a converted free in the 19th minute and scored again three minutes later.

Shane Barrett:

Alongside him, Barrett was tormenting Tipp. He had been wayward with his shooting on the semi-final against Dublin but he had his eye in here, striking over a crucial 1-3 in the opening half to drive his team into the ascendancy. 

It did not last.