McCarthy confident Cork ‘in a good place’

Roscommon 0-17 Cork 1-11: Roscommon promoted, Cork safe. Well, as good as. Cork dropping to Division 3 can only materialise if Meath draw against Louth next weekend and Down overcome Tipp by at least 13 points. Those are two sizeable ifs.

Irrespective, that Cork weren’t able to guarantee their own safety says plenty about their up and down spring, more down than up considering they wobbled when promotion came back into view, finished with back-to-back defeats and lost three of their four home fixtures.

Not surprisingly, manager Ronan McCarthy took a different view. His opinion is that Cork are “in a good place” ahead of summer.