The Cork County Board have indicated that they will not be drawn into a public debate with the Rebel County's hurlers after a statement on behalf of the players appeared in today's Irish Examiner. The statement was highly critical of both team manager Gerald McCarthy and the Cork Board for re-appointing him to the position recently. The Board have pledged to consider the players' statement carefully and then decide whether a reply will be needed, while also urging the players to return back to playing in a Cork jersey again. "We will read the statement carefully and consider it and then a decision will be made whether it contents a reply or not," Cork PRO Bob Ryan told the Evening Echo newspaper. "As I said previously in a statement issued on behalf of the county board last week, we are not engaging with a tit-for-tat campaign with the players in the public domain. "However, I would reiterate our appeal to the players to come back and play." McCarthy himself has stated that he will consider whether or not to respond to the statement after taking every detail into account in the coming days. "I will study the article and what is written in it about me and if I feel a need to reply to certain points I most certainly will, but it will be in the next day or so." Tweet

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