Sunday read: Glen Rovers relegated, without the kicking and screaming

What should both concern and focus the mind of the still-proud Blackpool club is the need to breathe new life into a team with a great deal of mileage in its legs

UNDER PRESSURE: Kanturk's Darren Browne keeps close tabs on Glen Rovers' talisman Patrick Horgan in Saturday's Cork Premier SHC relegation playoff in Fermoy.

Cork Premier SHC Relegation play-off: Kanturk 1-16 Glen Rovers 1-13

More so than the unthinkable of relegation being realised, what will gnaw away at Glen Rovers this week, next week, and into the foreseeable is that they didn’t go kicking and screaming. There was no final act of defiance or belligerence. As had been the case all summer, they faded and fell away.