At this stage of the season, when everybody has played so many matches and nobody has any secrets, it should be easy to work out what’s going to happen next. But the circumstances keep changing. The pressure is different now. Expectations have been revised, up and down. Limerick and Cork, the two teams who expected to win the All-Ireland at the start of the year, have both reached Croke Park on schedule. All the talk of those teams playing five games against each other this season is still alive, months after it was first mentioned.But going into this weekend nobody really knows how Clare and Galway or fixed. Are Galway too young for this; are Clare too old? Is this just the wrong time for both of them?After Dublin and Offaly were hammered in the quarter-finals, the usual questions about the quality of the Leinster championship were raised. There was no doubt that Galway were the best team in Leinster and along the way they had big wins over Offaly and Dublin. But they also lost to Dublin and the issue that day in Salthill was conceding three bad goals. Dublin scored four goals against them in the Leinster final as well, and even though two of them came very late, when the game was over, it is still worrying to concede seven goals to Dublin over two games.Apart from the Offaly game, Cork have not been scoring goals in bunches like they had been over the last couple of seasons, but they will look for early goals against Galway on Saturday. Cork are the team with the big-game experience: nearly all of them have played in the last two All-Ireland finals and they’re going to want to make that count from the start.A lot has been made of Galway leaving only one player inside the opposition 45 when they don’t have the ball, but that leads to congestion in the middle third of the field, not in Galway’s full-back line. Between the opposition 65 and the Galway 45 there will often be 10 or 11 Galway players, which drags in just as many from the other team. But there is still space close to the Galway goal and that is what Cork will be looking to exploit. Galway’s strategy is to run the ball from the middle of the field, but there is also a risk in the way they’re set up. If a team presses them high up the field and forces turnovers, Galway are open. I’d be amazed if Cork didn’t try that. Galway’s Jason Rabbitte scores a goal against Kilkenny in Pearse Stadium on April 18th.