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SPORTEvening Echo

Ray of hopefor hurlers

Fergie: Iworry aboutRonaldo

addressing for them tochallenge this year.“We have always

struggled with scoringforwards and over thelast number of years wehave had the best bunchwe’ve ever had.“Now, I would be crit-

ical of their workrate,because I think it isn’tgood enough and thatwould be my reason forthem not succeeding asmuch as they should.On Eoin Cadogan’s de-

cision to concentrate onjust one code, he be-lieves that the qualifiershave made it extra diffi-cult for dual players.“I’d have thought that

he’d have opted for hurl-ing because there’s nocomparison in terms ofskill in the two games● More GAA P51-53.

FORMER great Ray Cumminsbelieves the Cork hurlers are infor a very difficult year.

The former dual star believes Corkare in transition, but is holding off onfinal judgement until he sees how theyfare in the league.“It’s very much a young and it’s go-

ing to take them another while to gainthe experience,” Cummins said.“That’s one of the reasons why I am

not terribly optimistic this year, I thinkthey are in transition. I’d like to see afew league matches before I could an-swer that question with any kind ofconfidence, but I am not optimistic,they have a steep mountain to climb.”The former Blackrock man also be-

lieves the managementteam made the right de-cision to cut Donal ÓgCusack from their leaguesquad.He also believes the

Cork footballers have un-derachieved and need towork harder.“I wasn’t that shocked

at Donal Óg Cusack’somission because thereare good, young lads whodeserve their chance.“There’s only a limited

period when you havethe honour of wearingthe jersey and you handit over to someone else.“I don’t know what’s in

the mind of the selectors.Is Donal Óg good enoughto play? He probably isbut you have to giveyouth its chance too.“There have been two

sub keepers there for sev-eral years.’’On the football front,

the Cummins believes anumber of things need

But Cummins not optimistic for league

PHIL JONES is set to be handed oneof the toughest jobs in world football– stopping Ronaldo.Fresh from his successfulman-marking job on Evertondangerman Marouanne Fellaini,Jones will be told by Sir AlexFerguson to do the same to RealMadrid’s star man at the Bernabeutonight.But first the United boss will have tohope his prayers are answered andJones – who has emerged as a keyman for United in the ChampionsLeague last-16 first leg glamour tie –recovers from a calf injury to take hisplace in the teamIt is not a standard Fergie tactic foran opposition player to be singled outfor special treatment.But he is ready to make an exceptionfor Ronaldo’s first meeting with theReds since leaving Old Trafford forMadrid in 2009 for a record £80m.Since then Ronaldo has scored 182goals in 179 games for Madrid, withFergie admitting that he is the oneplayer he is worried about ahead ofthe first leg tie at the Bernabeu.“I never thought he would get thatamount of goals to be honest withyou, Ronaldo is the one you worryabout,” Alex Ferguson said.With Rio Ferdinand rested forSunday’s 2-0 win over Everton, it ishighly likely he will be back topartner Nemanja Vidic at centreback.● See P49 for more.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

UCC TO FACE CIT IN LAST EIGHT: UCC’s Brian O'Muirithe underpressure from Liam Markham of NUI Galway during their FitzgibbonCup match at the Mardyke, below, left, WIT’s Stephen Roche tacklesCIT’s Michael Sheedy. See reports on P52, 53.

HURLINGBy JOHN HORGAN

Management made rightdecision on Cusack situ-ation.

Ray Cummins

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