O’Connor not surprised by quality of Rebels’ display

CORK’S attempt to wrestle the Munster SFC title from Kerry didn’t come as any great surprise to their coach Jack O’Connor.

“If we were to believe everything that was being written and said about Cork in the lead-up to the game the result was a foregone conclusion.

“We expected a ferocious battle from Cork, and we got it. We know from experience that you can never write them off, and it’s all to play for next Sunday. Looking back on the game, we missed a couple of chances to kill them off when we were a point in front. There were at least three frees missed and had we converted two of them, I doubt if Cork would have pulled it back. We only went one point ahead and that was never going to be enough in a game as tight at that.