Gerald: the search for natural born thrillers

GERALD McCARTHY is looking to Cork’s Allianz League campaign will unearth three or four players capable of forcing their way onto his championship line-up.

Though hugely successful under Donal O’Grady and John Allen this past four years, the Munster champions have been heavily dependant on a small core of players when push comes to shove later in the season.

Eleven of the players who started the 2003 All-Ireland final defeat to Kilkenny marched behind the Artane Band again last September when Cork lost to their great Leinster rivals.