Tuesday GAA Tactics: Cork’s work rate won the day

Sylvester Hennessy crunches the numbers from the weekend’s big Allianz League games.

In an exact reversal of fortune from the opening day league loss to Kilkenny, Cork produced the type of performance on Saturday night that suggests they can compete once more at the top table of hurling in 2015.

It might have come a week too late from Cork supporters’ perspectives, but Jimmy Barry Murphy’s men showed real heart and resolve to brush aside a Clare side who have not won a competitive game now in five attempts.