Noel Creedon plots next big step for St. Michael’s

St. Michael’s 1-11 Mallow 1-10

The elongated nature of the championship’s earlier rounds has its critics in the county and the structure may need to be re-examined, but, in sport, little surpasses a winner-takes-all encounter between two clubs with similar ambitions.

There was plenty to admire in the way both clubs approached this do-or-die encounter, one that Michael’s just about deserved to win.