CORK BOSS RONAN McCarthy has named four competition debutants in his starting line-up for the opening round National Football League meeting with Fermanagh in Brewster Park (throw-in 2pm, Sunday).
Corner backs Kevin O’Donovan and Conor Dennehy earn their first senior start for the Rebels.
In the forward line, the new faces are in the 11 shirt with Knocknagree’s Eoghan McSweeney and corner forward Damien Gore of Kilmacabea.
Cork will name their subs for the trip to the Lakeland county on Thursday evening.
Cork team v Fermanagh (NFL Div 2)
1. Mark White (Clonakilty)
2. Kevin O’Donovan (Nemo Rangers)
3. Kevin Flahive (Douglas)
4. Conor Dennehy (St Finbarrs)
5. James Loughrey (Mallow)
6. Tom Clancy (Clonakilty)
7. Mattie Taylor (Mallow)
8. Ian Maguire (St Finbarrs)
9. Ronan O’Toole (Eire Og)
10. Tom Clancy (Fermoy)
11. Eoghan McSweeney (Knocknagree)
12. Ruairi Deane (Bantry)
13. Damien Gore (Kilmacabea)
14. Brian Hurley (Castlehaven)
15. Luke Connolly (Nemo Rangers)
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Never a dull moment in this years tour!
May the best drugs win!
Ah yes, the same old reply about drugged riders… because cycling is the only sport with this problem.
Anyway, some balls on boonen finishing the last 50km on a broken wrist or collarbone.
And because cycling isn’t the only sport, that makes it ok then?
Who said it is okay? There is an issue and UCI are great at looking like they care about it, in reality its a comfortable setup for all involved and they will never rock the boat.
My issue is with the generic ‘all on drugs’ type responce from the average person with no interest in cycling. You can say the same about most profesional sports.
The football equivalant of ‘they are all on drugs’ would be somebody saying ‘the problem with arsenal is they always try and walk it into the net’