Wasteful Cork miss an opportunity
The relief on each maroon-clad player as they disappeared under the main stand told us how fortunate they were to have avoided an opening day defeat and there was certainly no disguising the collective disappointment of the visitors to Salthill. That Colm O’Neill had failed to steer over a match-winning free with the second last kick of the game only compounded that deep sense of opportunity lost.
O’Neill, though, certainly wasn’t the villain at Pearse Stadium. Quite the opposite, in fact. Introduced three-quarters of an hour into this Division 2 clash, the 28-year old had five points to his name, four of which arrived from open play, when called upon to stand over said injury-time free.
