Rebels now fighting to save season, Goulding

"Take it easy now, lads," offers Daniel Goulding with a wry smile.

In front of the assembled press for an Under Armour Heatgear event in Dublin yesterday, nothing was going to compare to the grilling he and Cork received from Kerry on Sunday.

Later, he would travel back home for training, where he promised by the end of the session the players would be over the trauma of that double-score defeat. He could say that so assuredly because he knows nothing else can be accepted if Cork are to salvage what had looked like being a promising season.