Time for Cork to change course

Cork football may be rocking but Brian Cuthbert has a chance to transform their game for the better

I once met Alan Quirke at a mutual friend’s wedding in 2011; he was a fine man of admirable integrity. We conversed about the state of football and about how much progress had been made by Conor Counihan and the then current Cork team.

After the pleasantries, I took an opportunity to inform Alan of how, as an outsider looking at it from as far away as Crossmaglen, I wished he could view Cork from the eyes of those vastly removed from the set up. The point of my advice was that I didn’t believe that this massively strong, physically imposing, athletic group of individuals had the self-belief to improve on their success to date.