Coulter: Downing Cork will help silence critics

Down’s Benny Coulter has called on his team-mates to prove they are worthy of their Division 1 status by beating Cork on Sunday.

“With us in Division 1, people are probably saying that we are not among the best eight teams in Ireland but we can go some way towards proving this against Cork,” said Coulter.

“I would think that we have been in the top bracket for the past two years because we deserve to be there. This is definitely a very tough division with no easy game but Sunday presents us with the kind of challenge that could maybe re-ignite our season.”