Can Cork find the way to win?

Cork must find a different game plan for Mayo

Half-time. The Division 1 League final of 2012. The score: Mayo 0-9 Cork 0-5. Mayo had already beaten an injury-ravaged Cork team in the previous year’s championship. Cork had to find a way to win this game.

In the dressing room, it was slowly dawning on the Cork players that Mayo were trying to put down a physical marker. In the first half, Mayo puffed their chest. Big hits were going in along with mouthy exchanges. Mayo’s Donal Vaughan, in particular, was throwing his new found weight around.