Cork selector Terry O'Neill admitted he was surprised by the comfortable manner of his side's McGrath Cup victory over Cork IT yesterday.

"To be honest, I thought they were a bit disappointing as CIT teams would go," he said.

"When you look through their tea, they have a lot of current and former Kerry and Cork U21 players. Fellas lose sight of that as well, it's a big, big step up from being a good U21 players to being a county senior player. The work rate of the players today and the strength they'd have developed, it's a different kettle of fish.

"We've a fairly big panel so every fella is trying to nail down his position, first of all maybe in the team and then on the panel.

"You could be training all you want but the big thing is to get a bit of match practice into fellows before the National League, which starts in two weeks." Tweet

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