Cork need to forget template and cut loose
Cork laboured for the entire first-half trying to figure out what they were all about. They went in at the interval on level terms with a Westmeath team that were clearly not up to much themselves. Westmeath flattered themselves by going ahead within a minute of the restart but then went 25 minutes without a score from play until John Heslin, at that stage restored to his natural habitat at midfield, scored a decent long range effort.
By now Cork had gone on a scoring burst and were out of sight. Whereas in the first-half players in red jerseys insisted on running into cul de sacs, they were now popping passes off the shoulder to colleagues with more momentum and better angles of running.
