McCarthy calls on younger Cork players to ‘set their own agenda’

CORK hurling legend Teddy McCarthy last night pleaded with younger members of the county’s striking players to “set their own agenda” and not be influenced by their colleagues.

McCarthy, one of Gerald McCarthy’s four Cork selectors this season, was honoured by his club, Sarsfields, last night and used the occasion to issue a plea to striking members of the 2008 panel.

In a thinly-veiled attack on the senior players he believes are preventing some members of the 2008 squad from returning to the fold, McCarthy said: “If it’s true that some of last year’s panel are attempting to dissuade young hurlers from playing for Cork, (then) I would be so disappointed. When I hear of the Cork panel being organised into “cells”, each chaired by a senior player, I say to myself how could we have allowed that kind of thing into Cork hurling, into what is meant to be a sport?”