How many of the Cork walk-ups will become walk-aways?

THE problem for the Cork footballers and those burdened with making the repayments on Páirc Uí Chaoimh was not the sight of thousands streaming out before the end of Saturday’s lopsided Munster final. It was the percentage of them who won’t be back.

Few who populate the GAA’s terraces have been as scarred in recent years as the Cork football supporter, but there is a hardcore who’ll fill the car with food and fuel and venture defiantly to wherever the final round of pre-Super 8 qualifiers takes them.

The pity is they formed one of the smaller percentage of fan types at Páirc Ui Chaoimh, who stayed to the bitter, bitter end.