'We're trying different things': Kingston's experimental Cork emerge the happier after winter slog

“Sean O’Donoghue came in centre field and Bill Cooper played centre-back, we’re just trying fellas out to see how they go — this is the time of the year to do it.”

The default description for a game like yesterday’s Cork-Waterford clash is that it wasn’t one for the purists. It might be more accurate to say it was one for the masochists.

This Co-Op Superstores Munster SHL clash in a soggy Fraher Field had all the rusty handling and miscued clearances that you expect from teams playing the summer game deep in the wintertime. Cork won, 1-17 to 1-13, because they probably fielded one or two more championship starters than Waterford, and were more clinical: The home side’s double-digit wide tally added to a gloomy evening in west Waterford.