Conor Dorman’s defending on the front foot

ACROSS the table is the face of modern gaelic football. The face and the physique.

Cork’s Conor Dorman is nominally a wing-back, but as easily a midfielder or a wing-forward. Where once his office space was a cubicle ten yards in from the sideline and 40 yards from his own goal, now it is open plan, anywhere the ball is and everywhere he might like to take his exhausted opponent.

Though the jersey number indicates his role is stopping scores, jersey numbers are as irrelevant as buggy whips. Opponents spend more time fretting over Dorman’s whereabouts than the other way around.