Free-scoring St Michael’s sound an early warning

St Michael’s 2-16 Macroom 0-11

Except for the opening quarter and for a brief spell in the third, Macroom were outplayed, and had the city side taken more scoring chances this game would have been over long before they hit a tricky patch midway through that second period.

In the end they need not have worried, because after Patrick Lucey and Fintan Goold had threatened to upstage them, St Michael’s found further reserves of strength and stamina to coast home.