Cork GAA preview: Lisgoold stand between Erin's Own and third straight promotion
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Erin’s Own are chasing a third straight promotion. Their team is filled with experience. Kieran Murphy, Stephen Cronin, and Colm Coakley all played in the 2016 county senior final defeat to Glen Rovers. They have youth too in the form of Cork U20 Oran O’Regan.
Six points is as close as anyone has got of Lisgoold this season. Their average winning margin stands at 12 points. Liam O’Shea, James O’Driscoll, Isaak Walsh, and Diarmuid Healy have all been in ripe scoring form.
Their age profile suggests Lisgoold are a coming team, but they’d much rather develop and mature in Premier Intermediate than spend a fourth year in the fourth tier.
Lisgoold.
St Catherine’s are back in the final 12 months after falling to Erin’s Own. They beat Russell Rovers by a point in the group stages on the way to that final.
St Catherine’s will be better for the close shaves with Milford and Ballygarvan in quarter and semi-final, but there’s no getting away from the fact that Russell Rovers have been the form team of this championship.
Josh Beausang, Brian Hartnett, Luke Duggan Murray, and Kevin Moynihan can lift them to the Intermediate A ranks.
Russell Rovers.
Even though it was Kilshannig who kicked the leveler last weekend, it’d be wrong to say that either side carry greater momentum into this replay given both teams enjoyed very healthy second-half positions in the drawn game and neither were able to hold them.
Kilshannig conceded only one converted free, which paints their defensive discipline in a positive light, but against that, 1-13 from play is far too high a score to be leaking. Tighten up there and they have the sharpshooters further forward - Darragh O’Sullivan and Éanna O’Hanlon - to get over the line.
Kilshannig.
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