Just when we presumed they'd landed at the bottom of the pit, simultaneous defeats for Cork in both hurling and football sees the state of GAA in the Rebel county at its lowest ebb in recent memory.
The hurlers looked spirited if tactically inept as they fell to Kilkenny at Nowlan Park, while the footballers were altogether worse, losing to Clare for the first time since 1997 in a hapless display in Ennis.
Cork capitulated in the second half, scoring just four points and seeing both a Donal Óg Hodnett goal disallowed on 46 minutes and a Colm O'Neill penalty missed in the dying stages.
The result leaves Cork looking over their shoulder in Division 2 as opposed to eyeing promotion and, perhaps most worryingly of all, was met with indifference on Leeside.
Speaking on RTÉ's League Sunday last night, former Cork star Paddy Kelly reflected on another horrendous day for his old teammates:
Unfortunately, when you lose to a team like Clare who would traditionally be a Division 4 team, obviously there's going to be question marks.
You know, it was a bitterly disappointing result today because after beating Fermanagh there was hope that they could kick on and push for promotion. This is on the back of losing to Kildare earlier in the season disappointingly, and a couple of bad defeats in the last couple of years - to Kildare in the Championship, to Tipp last year in the Championship. So, it's worrying times for Cork.
We've dropped a lot from 2010.
Kelly was then asked by presenter Michael Lyster why he believed Cork football had regressed to such an extent since their All-Ireland win seven years ago.
The recently-retired Kelly, naturally still close to a number of players on the Cork senior panel, was relatively coy on the issue, but seemed to get his point across in the most polite manner possible:
A lot of reasons, but it's very hard to pinpoint. You know, obviously it's very awkward for me, only being recently departed.
The reality is, after 2010, I suppose we lost a lot of very good players - a lot of the older generation went; the likes of Graham Canty and Nicholas Murphy. They were underappreciated at the time. They were top class players. More so than top class players, they were very mature. They were real solid men.
And unfortunately in that turnover of players, there's maybe a void there. The reality is that the players who've come in have found it tough to get to this level. It's a cut-throat business in Division 1, and they've unfortunately found themselves down in Division 2 now. Its a difficult time. It's a rough night for the lads, and few days ahead.
While Kelly didn't exactly throw his former side under the bus, it's rather telling that, considering the litany of behind-the-scenes issues in Cork GAA, he brought up the players at all.
The consensus in Cork is that the footballers must front up, and that external factors simply cannot be used as an excuse for losing to Clare. Time will tell as to whether such a result sparks a reaction from a team who, on current form, would do extremely well to make a Munster final, with last year's conquerors Tipperary awaiting in the semis should the Rebels take care of Waterford.
Cork GAA seems desperate to hit rock bottom so that things have no option but to improve. The problem is that it's still in freefall with no sign of a floor.
