Former Cork boss John Meyler believes retiring forward Alan Cadogan is a true role model for young hurlers.
Everyone remembers Austin Gleeson’s wonder goal against Cork to announce his championship arrival back in 2014. What fewer remember is that the man of the match award that day went to another debutant: Cork’s new sensation Alan Cadogan.What former Cork manager John Meyler remembers most about Cadogan’s emergence was the buzz of excitement from the crowd every time he got the ball.
“He came in around 2014 and I saw this 5-foot-10, extremely fast, extremely skillful corner-forward,” remembers Meyler. “He brought a huge dynamic to the full-forward line with Hoggy.“He had a fantastic touch and matched the touch with the speed because then he was gone with the ball in the hand. He had that drop of the shoulder and he cut in against corner-backs.
Dónal Óg Cusack was the ring leader, joined by John Gardiner, Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Kevin Hartnett, and the local Douglas boys. They even trained there on Christmas Day. “Even on days when it was like an ice rink,” Ó hAilpín once said. “He was one of the tastiest forwards I’ve seen Cork producing for a long time,” came the praise from Kerry legend Mikey Sheehy after taking the Kingdom for five points that spring.
Cork’s early exit in 2016, however, did facilitate his one senior football appearance as a late sub in the Rebels’ round 4 defeat to Donegal. It says much about his standing to be parachuted in for such a high-profile encounter so late in the summer.The next spring, and still just 23, he filled in as Cork captain against Clare during the League when Stephen McDonnell was injured. Typically, he was named man of the match.
“He came back in ’19 but we really needed him in ’18 and we didn’t have him,” recalls Meyler. “Injury caught him and that’s a sad part of an inter-county player’s career if it’s blighted by injury and a fella could’ve done more. His tireless commitment to the cause was summarised by a viral clip, remembered by Anthony Nash in a column last year.
In 2021, he contributed 0-3 against Kilkenny to earn a place in the All-Ireland final, where he also clipped a point in the beating by Limerick. He was left out for much of last year but a 20-minute cameo in the quarter-final against Galway netted three points and almost rescued the match.
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