'Limping' Nemo pick up pace at just the right time

'If we had stumbled into the final, you would have doubts in your mind as to where the level of your game is at.'

FINDING THEIR GROOVE: Nemo Rangers manager Paul O'Donovan who play St Finbarrs in the Bon Secours Cork SFC final in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. Pic: Eddie O'Hare

Chatting to Paul O’Donovan in the Páirc Uí Chaoimh tunnel after his team’s utterly unconvincing quarter-final win over Carbery Rangers, the Nemo manager wore that familiar Trabeg bluntness.

“We are limping into the semi-final,” O’Donovan said of their 2-4 to 0-9 win. A win achieved despite managing only two scores in the opening 35 minutes.