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TODAY IN CROKE Pork, Offaly and Kildare take their first steps on the road to winning the Ham Maguire and we expect a sizzling atmosphere at Headquarters when both teams trot out for throw in.

The Lillywhites are heavy favourites going into the game but the Plateful County will be confident of setting a hambush.

This one has all the bacons of a classic with the likes of Alan Mulham and David Hamlon togging out for Offaly while Hugh McGrillen knows how to cook up a storm for Kildare.

Now, we think we’ve proven our puns are terrible but they’re not within snouting distance of the offalness of some of the ones we’ve seen on Twitter and Facebook since this fixture was announced.

In part, we blame that advert, you know the one, but we also think our commenters can do a lot better than we have.

Sadly, we don’t have a hamper to give away, but if you leave your best pig related puns in the comment section below, you could be named TheScore.ie‘s favourite commenter for a day and we’ll tweet the best pun just before throw-in.

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