Nemo Rangers 1-10 Castlehaven 0-11: AROUND their considerable clubhouse on the South Douglas road last night, many of the men who created the Nemo Rangers legend of football dominance in Cork were agreed on one thing.

Steven O’Brien reckoned the Nemo Rangers performance rated around 6/10.

Nemo Rangers 1-15 Douglas 0-11: A seven-point winning margin for Nemo Rangers in this Cork SFC fourth round replay doesn’t tell the whole story of a game which had three distinct parts.

Nemo Rangers 2-14 Na Piarsaigh 3-6: Na Piarsaigh are a game from possibly falling through the trapdoor of Premier Intermediate football after succumbing to city rivals, Nemo Rangers last night.

Carbery Rangers 3-10 Nemo Rangers 0-9

As in so many other years, Nemo Rangers were lining out on the day of the Cork senior football championship final.

Cork SFC semi-final

SFC quarter-final: Nemo Rangers 1-13 O’Donovan Rossa 1-8

Cork senior football champions Castlehaven will meet Division 1 league winners Nemo Rangers in the opening round of the 2013 championship.

The contrast in styles could hardly be more stark – which makes Sunday’s AIB Munster Club SFC final between Dr Crokes and Castlehaven one of the most eagerly anticipated in years.

It’s rare Nemo Rangers fail to win the first round of the Cork County SFC and rarer still they are limited to just three points from play.

TO apply some context to this headline result in Fermoy on Saturday, one should underline that this is only the second Cork SFC game Nemo Rangers have lost over the past five years.

Nemo Rangers 0-12 Ballincollig 1-7

THE GAA’s management committee has given the green light to a feasibility study into Hawk-Eye technology being used in the All-Ireland senior football and hurling championships.

IT’S a measure of the greatness of this Nemo Rangers setup that they have delivered such a formidable riposte to last year’s quarter-final championship exit.

THEIR season may have culminated at the quarter-final stage last season but Nemo Rangers have issued a powerful response in 2010.

THE opening shots are fired in the 2009 Evening Echo County Premier IFC tonight in Cloughduv and the first battle of the year should be a lively affair.

DROM-BROADFORD captain Tom McLoughlin insists his side’s shock Munster Club SFC triumph over Nemo Rangers will be devalued if they fail to win the provincial crown.