Ronan McCarthy: Cork won’t be ‘parking the bus’
Eoin Cadogan may have departed to the hurlers and Alan O’Connor retired but he knows the advances of all three county champions to the All-Ireland club stages on top of that gutsy extra-time defeat to Mayo in July have generated belief in Cork football.
McCarthy says the reasons for optimism are genuine but it’s not a time to be dreaming big. “People get into extremes. Cork football, it was said, was in the doldrums up to six months ago or whatever for two years, which was wrong. Yes, a couple of things have happened like Nemo doing well and Kanturk doing well and Knocknagree and suddenly now people are close to the other extreme. I’m not saying overly optimistic but I think we have to stand back a bit.
