McCarthy bullish on Douglas chances

THE CONVENTIONAL wisdom has it that Douglas blew their chance of a county football final place when they coughed up a late three-point lead in their Cork SFC semi-final joust with Ilen Rovers two weeks ago.

Yet ahead of tonight’s replay, manager Ronan McCarthy toes a different line when reflecting on that game.

“We did lose the lead the last day but to be fair to Ilen they’d taken control of the game. It wasn’t like we collapsed, they’d been coming strong for the last seven or eight minutes. When Brian O’Sullivan was going through with that last chance, I thought he might go for goal. The general consensus might have it that we were disappointed but in other ways I felt we were fortunate to get a draw.”