Clockwork orange: How two-point king Sherlock has reignited Rebels

Eight orange flags in back-to-back Sam Maguire outings got us thinking. If Steven Sherlock can so frequently find the space and sweet spot to land four two-pointers against both the Division 1 and 2 League champions in mid-summer, just how many has he lasered over since the game’s rulebook was rewritten at the beginning of last year?

Perhaps nobody in the Páirc Uí Rinn crowd of 8,526 three weeks ago realised  that when Sherlock raised a second orange flag in the space of 31 seconds to complete an 11-point swing for the hosts in the 10 minutes after half-time, the two-pointer represented his 50th across club and inter-county fare.

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