Glen Rovers manager: 'Maybe that just shows you the standard of inter-county hurling and where Cork is at the moment'

Glen Rovers manager Richie Kelleher accepted Cork hurling is currently lacking steel after his side's Munster club final defeat by Ballyea.
Glen Rovers manager: 'Maybe that just shows you the standard of inter-county hurling and where Cork is at the moment'

Kelleher acknowledged the better side had won and also that the failure of some of his team’s leading lights to show up had more to do with Ballyea’s brilliance than anything else.

The first-half, or at least its closing 11 minutes, made for nightmare viewing from a Glen Rovers perspective. Six points conceded without reply and hardly a single player draped in the three-tone shirt able to lay a glove on their opposite number. Shades of their 2014 county final annihilation at the hands of Sarsfields, if we’re being honest.

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