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'Kerrigan is vital to Cork's new style'

The qualifiers are over for another year with Cork and Galway advancing to All Ireland quarter-fi...



'Kerrigan is vital to Cork...
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'Kerrigan is vital to Cork's new style'

The qualifiers are over for another year with Cork and Galway advancing to All Ireland quarter-finals clashes against Mayo and Kerry respectively.

Cork beat Sligo with relative comfort and as Fintan O'Toole highlighted on the Monday Rewind, the Cork gameplan was of particular interest.

"It's pretty defenisve really. They brought back O'Driscoll as a full-time sweeper and they brought back Mark Collins as well. But they kept four forwards up there at all times. I genuinely like that system Four forwards is okay," said Wooly on Off The Ball tonight.

Anthony Moyles was also in studio and he highlighted how the system benefits Paul Kerrigan who had a fine game and notched 0-5.

"Kerrigan needs that space to operate in. What he did was position himself at centre-forward and he basically just ran the line 30 yards either side. All Cork had to do was pop into space for him," said Moyles, who felt Kerrigan was decisive and added that he is "vital to the new style".

Meanwhile, Galway conceded four goals against Tipp in an eight goal thriller and Wooly felt some of the forwards were "lazy" and not tracking back sufficiently.

"So don't ask them to go back if they're natural forwards and they don't want to do the job that they're going to be asked to do," said Wooly. 

Moyles also believes they have a real problem at 6 and also feels Galway can be Jekyll and Hyde. 

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