John Cleary 'disgust' sparks Cork's second-half revival

'DISGUST': Cork manager John Cleary during the Allianz Football League Division 2 match against Clare at Cusack Park in Ennis. Pic: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

At half-time in Ennis John Cleary, as he’d admit later, was “fairly disgusted”. His team, having played with the breeze, were a point down in a ground where more than once in recent years they had left defeated. Without an intervention it was how they were likely going to leave Ennis again. So what was the intervention at the break? What was his message? 

In keeping with his character that this team has taken and responded to, it was blunt. “We said to the lads it was time to get the lead out.”