Gloss on the scoreboard there. That was a very poor performance. But delighted for Antrim that they gave a fucking serious cut. They should never be out of the Liam Mccarthy again. Hurling needs Antrim, and Antrim need hurling.
As an aside, Jacko seems to be coming into form. He has to be first sub at least next week IMO.
Cork werenât great there, looked like they were going to kick into gear at the start of the second half but errors started to creep in and they turned the ball over regularly around the middle of the field. Probably hard to keep going when you feel like you are going to win anyway but they need to up it a lot. Lehane & ROF picked off scores from out the field and that was the difference really, Antrim missed similar chances in the first half.
Antrim gave it a go, and kept going until the end but never actually looked like winning in the second half.
Formlines mean fuck all, Cork have won 3 in a row anyway and only lost by 2 to Clare.
Doesnât matter anyway as they canât meet this year, both have big tests coming up, (Galway and Kilkenny) will need to be on their game, Cork are flaky enough obviously, but on their day theyâll beat anybody except the obvious