Cork's Mark Collins admits the Rebels have become more defensive because the game of gaelic football has changed.

Despite wearing the No.14 jersey, Collins is as likely to be found inside his own half of the field as inside opposition territory and his roaming role has been central to the Rebels' success so far this year.

"It is the way that everyone is gone really, the likes of Kerry and Dublin were the architects of free-flowing football and they are as defensive as anyone now," he notes in The Irish Times.

"That is the way that football has gone, unfortunately, and you have to play that way. We set up a bit defensively [against Donegal] but we still scored 4-11 so we are still attacking in numbers and it is enjoyable.

"Football has gone that way. You might have only two or three forwards and we know that with Brian [Hurley] and Colm [O'Neill], you have to get the ball to them and they will do the business for us. It is up to the rest of us to work as hard to get it for them. It is enjoyable anyway when you are winning."

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