Fronting up: how Cork’s attack fared

If Cork’s forward line is considered a liability, then the Rebels’ three-in-a-row bid is firmly on track, says Michael Moynihan.

CORK’S forward sextet, the most maligned offensive force since the Spanish Armada, started smartly yesterday, when Niall McCarthy drove over an inspirational opening point. It didn’t quite start a deluge, mind: for the rest of the half numbers ten to fifteen in red managed only two more points from play, through Brian Corcoran and Joe Deane, out of their ten-point total.

The ratio improved in the second half: Deane added two from play, Corcoran scored one and Neil Ronan, while on as a blood sub, got another. Seven out of twenty, one-third of the total scored by forwards from play. More fuel for those arguing the poverty of the Leeside attack, then.