Considine reflects on first senior triumph

He may have only one more game at the managerial helm but John Considine won’t forget the first time he took charge of the Cork hurlers recently.

“It was a great win, we were six points down but the lads seemed to make up their own minds that they were going to win it,” said Considine.

“I just got that feeling when we started to come back into it. We came up to try and win but the most important thing was to find out where fellows were at and they are not a million miles off the pace.’’

He also talked about what it was like taking training at such short notice.

“We didn’t know, we had two nights and in fairness the lads did what was required but you don’t know until you come out on the pitch.

“We started badly in the second-half, we only got one score in 15 minutes and the game was broken, lots of stoppages which did not suit us.

“Then the guys kicked into gear. They were playing on memory because we couldn’t do much with them, we couldn’t get them any fitter or any faster, we couldn’t change any game plan, we just pulled them together and they have got a start now and the two points were important in terms of the relegation battle.

“It’s back now to Tuesday night, Thursday night and then Sunday.’’

Considine insisted that it was a united cause, no residue from the boardroom battles.

“Look, everybody out there was fighting for everybody else, that’s the great thing on the field, you are in your own little world and it’s the best place to be on earth, playing in a Cork jersey.

“It was amazing, I really had a kind of an armchair ride there as they kicked into gear, we couldn’t do much and we didn’t have to do much.

“We got the goals, the second one from a free, it’s hard to know what actually happened, it could have been a free out but on balance you could not say we got all the decisions. It worked out because we had a few frees we thought went against us. It was a mighty drive by Pat.’’

Article courtesy of the Evening Echo newspaper.