No more tracking back but added pressure to deliver for Cork's Chris Óg Jones

The Iveleary forward said football had become "demoralising to play in the last couple of years".

With 5-8 to his name, Cork's Chris Óg Jones is the top scorer from play across all four divisions of the Allianz Football League. Pic: Tom Beary/Sportsfile

No more tracking back. So went the four-word Instagram caption of Chris Óg Jones after lining out for Munster in last October’s inter-provincial series. The inter-provincial series, as most will recall, was the debut television appearance of football’s new rules.

Jones is enjoying the new rules. He didn’t need to tell us such. His unrivalled hauls across the League’s opening three rounds speak for themselves. But emerging from the Cork dressing-room on Saturday evening, he was decent enough to stop and expand on that enjoyment.