Collins pulls out all the stops
“It was against the odds anyway, no doubt about that,” admitted delighted Cork manager Pat Kenneally. “But it was the ‘Patrick Collins Show’. I want to give credit to the lads all over the field but Patrick was sheer class — at least six point-blank saves, just incredible.”
Indeed it was. Collins is a precocious talent, a senior outfield star with Ballinhassig, but even though he is still a minor this is his second season at U21, and as his manager noted, he put on a show. Three times in a first half in which Cork were really under the cosh he denied Waterford — Austin Gleeson, Donie Breathnach and Jamie Barron in turn — and his heroics meant Cork were well in touch at the break, losing by just a point (0-11 to 0-10).
