O’Donovan Rossa keep hopes of senior status alive as Mallow disappoint

O’DONOVAN ROSSA are still in with a chance of saving their Cork SFC senior status following this comfortable victory over Mallow at Macroom on Saturday in the first of the round-robin relegation play-offs.

Players in the US for the summer, on holidays and transferred away from the club all combined to rob the Skibbereen side of at least six players, but while they are capable of taking points from their remaining games against Na Piarsaigh and St Michael’s, they are by no means out of the woods.

It’s hard to believe that just two years ago on the same pitch, only the thickness of the crossbar denied Mallow a place in the county final.