Brian Cuthbert pleased with progress

The blanket defence, the bane of Cork’s 2014, came back to bite them in Owenbeg yesterday, but Brian Cuthbert wasn’t getting overly worried about his side’s attacking performance.

Instead the Cork boss admitted he would be more concerned by his side’s defending after they conceded 2-15 to a Derry side that hadn’t exactly been setting the heather ablaze prior to yesterday.

Cork had led by 1-7 to 0-7 at half-time in front of a poor crowd of just 909, but two goals from Enda Lynn condemned the Rebels to their second league defeat of the season.