Sharp-edged attack offers final options

WATERFORD proved last weekend just how hard it can be to break a losing habit in semi-finals and, until yesterday, the only other team in the country that could match them for heartbreak at the penultimate hurdle was the Cork footballers.

Three times in the last five seasons the Munster side have crashed and burned in the last four. None of those defeats was made any easier by the fact that Kerry were the team to evict them on each occasion.

Another team in green and gold barred their path to a first final in eight years here but, impressive as Meath had been at times this summer, they’re no Kerry. The ten-point buffer Cork sat on at the final whistle was proof of that.