Both managements referred to the playing surface after yesterday’s game in Pairc Ui Chaoimh, with Cork selector Donal O’Mahony not mincing his words. Especially the way we play, we want to play fast hurling and then the ball is getting stuck and things like that. “They’d be physically stronger than us so it probably suited their gameplan a bit more than ours. I thought they outmuscled us at times but definitely the surface didn’t help.”Winning manager Davy Fitzgerald of Wexford said he and his team had expected the playing surface to be poor. We knew before the game that the surface was pretty bad, and you can see that we knock the ball around pretty okay, whether it’s ball to hand or on the ground.

Source: Irish Examiner February 04, 2019 10:52 UTC