The Minister for defence

AS The Who had it: meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

The Cork City defence, the meanest in the Premier Division last season, may have undergone some radical reconstruction but skipper and centre-half Dan Murray will bring an air of familiarity to the new campaign.

While Neal Horgan’s availability at right full is a boost for City, and promising new buy Darragh Ryan has the unenviable task of filling the boots of Danny Murphy on the other flank, the biggest change for Dan Murray is that, with the departure of Alan Bennett to Reading, he will no longer have his right hand man at his side.