Ger Lane: Cork footballers will ditch tactic of naming dummy teams

Cork chairman Ger Lane is to instruct football manager Peadar Healy to end the practice of naming dummy teams.

Lane was responding to comments from Passage delegate Matt Ahern at Sunday’s county convention, with the latter claiming it was disrespectful to “the small band of Cork football supporters” to put out a team on match-day that bore little resemblance to the one named in advance.

In what was to prove their last outing of this year’s championship, the Cork team that lined out against Donegal in the fourth round qualifier showed three changes to the team announced 24-hours earlier.