John Meyler: Cork suffering as club hurling ‘too nice’

All-Ireland medallist John Meyler believes Corkare producing technically excellent hurlers, but claims they are being held back by the lack of real intensity in the local club championships.

The St Finbarr’s clubman has concluded from his analysis of club games in both Cork and Kilkenny that “it’s not intense enough in Cork, the physicality isn’t high enough, it’s not 100 miles an hour”.

Cork hurlers have consistently raged against that cliche, that they possess more style than substance, and Seamus Harnedy insisted just this month that they do have the ‘mean streak’ required to win big.