Davis delivers the goods for Rossa

They were made to sweat before they could think of a last eight clash with Avondhu, but O’Donovan Rossa just about squeaked past spirited Aghada in Saturday night’s Cork SFC fourth round clash at rain-lashed Brinny.

They crawled when they should have cantered over the line in a game they held the upper-hand for long stages. Leading by four points at the threequarter stage, 1-5 to 0-4, there was very little to suggest the East Cork side would reverse that deficit; the conditions were difficult, the scoring was low and they had just kicked three bad wides in-a-row.

But an insignificant-looking dust up led to Skibbereen wing forward Eoin Hodnett getting a second yellow card and down to 14 men they lost their way for 10 minutes as Aghada staged a rousing comeback.