Players don’t always know what’s best for teams

WAS Gerald McCarthy’s management so lamentably bad that it stopped Cork from winning this year’s All-Ireland? Or last year’s?

The players — the ones on the inside, as Ben O’Connor says — now argue that things were far from right with McCarthy’s regime.

This could be the reality of it, or it could be that the players are acutely aware the public cannot effectively gainsay the claims of training-ground ineptitude because they (the public) are simply not at every, or indeed any, session.