Defenders not the chief culprits, insists Eoin

Cork’s Eoin Cadogan believes defenders have been unfairly depicted as the chief offenders in the run-up to the black card’s introduction and warned that forwards will have more difficulty adapting to the new rules.

The Douglas defender was part of a Rebel backline that rarely needed to skirt the border of illegality in containing LIT in Sunday’s McGrath Cup encounter in Mallow as the county side ran out 24-point winners.

Time was almost up before referee Pádraig O’Sullivan flashed the black card at Cork’s Micheal Ó Laoighaire and LIT’s Con Prendeville but Cadogan has taken issue with the general assertion that the move is there to protect the game’s ‘top’ players.