Butler: My boys got their just deserts

AS dramatic denouements go, it was right up there. Needing a converted try to win, PBC Cork battered the Rockwell line through seven minutes of injury time and eventually worked Will Foley over the line with a kickable conversion seemingly to come.

Somehow, though, outstanding Rockwell openside Sonny Cahill got his body underneath the ball and turned the PBC hooker. Referee Peter Fitzgibbon wasn’t convinced by the grounding, and as his final whistle sounded, out came three seasons of pent-up emotion for Rockwell, who had been vanquished in the previous two finals.

Rockwell coach Mark Butler admitted his nerves had long since been shredded before the nail-biting finale.