Cork GAA Discussion Thread

The White Feather

Has anyone else here read the book The Double by Adrian Russell

It is well worth the read and I have only got around to reading it now in Lockdown! Obviously is about when Cork did the Double. I reviewed it here in my log in case you want to know more.

ShamoBuc

The White Feather wrote: »

Has anyone else here read the book The Double by Adrian Russell

It is well worth the read and I have only got around to reading it now in Lockdown! Obviously is about when Cork did the Double. I reviewed it here in my log in case you want to know more.

Read it years ago, might dig it out again.

Speakerboxx wrote: »

You are being a smart ass.

Just saying what you said.

Rasputin11

The Cork wing back, number 5, produced one magnificent pick up with his foot in the first half. There was no replay of it but it was majestic.

gifted

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Some ridiculous weather in the camogie game, Cork playing really well.

Rugby on the TV.
Hurling on the radio.
Camogie on the tablet.
Soccer on the phone.

Love Sundays

This was posted only 4 weeks ago.....hard to believe what has happened since....I hate this bloody virus.

ShamoBuc

gifted wrote: »

This was posted only 4 weeks ago.....hard to believe what has happened since....I hate this bloody virus.

Only a month ago, in a months time hopefully there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

big_drive

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Read it years ago, might dig it out again.



Just saying what you said.

That book is only out a while. I’d say your thinking of another one

The_Kew_Tour

Having watched both Double games from 1990 I could not believe how good Michael Slocum was in the final. Fahy got Motm for few super points and dont like see him denied but Slocum never gets praise for his performance. He won everything.

ShamoBuc

big_drive wrote: »

That book is only out a while. I’d say your thinking of another one

You're quite correct. Just checked, the one I read is 'Rebels at the Double' by Eamon Young.

zetecescort

Cork v Waterford in the 2004 Munster final on TG4 tomorrow at 2

Corcaigh84

Speakerboxx wrote: »

Luck was on our side in 1990. We were 2nd best for nearly all that game.

As the legend John Fitzgibbon used to say 'the game only starts in the last 15 minutes'

Pure Cork boy. I'll take some of those 2nd bests this decade all day long.

thesultan

Regarding 91 and 90 with Cork hurlers. Where was mccuikan in 91 and harnett in 90?

Edgware

Speakerboxx wrote: »

Luck was on our side in 1990. We were 2nd best for nearly all that game.

Lucky to score 5-15. They dont give out the medals at half time

Straight Talker

Galway were a fine team.They were robbed of the three in a row in 1989, but that win in 1990 was well deserved.A great game of hurling, and sure the fact that Cork won, makes it even better.:D Sadly some of that fight and character, has been well absent, in the more modern incarnations of the Cork hurling team.

I was watching that 2018 all Ireland semi final, and the manner in which we blew that game was a disgrace.That free that Limerick got at the end, to nudge them in front in normal time (before we equalized to bring the game to extra time), was pretty soft tbh.But that's the way it goes.

Since the drawn 2013 all Ireland final, we have lost 5 successive championship games in Croke Park.But sure hopefully we will make it out of this crisis, with all our friends and family still alive, and have many more great days in Thurles Killarney The Pairc and Croke Park etc.Hopefully there will be many more all Irelands, for us to celebrate in the coming years.

The White Feather

The Cork hurlers are doing a 48 hour Solo run challenge for the Marymount Hospice

Fair dues to the lads and I hope everyone gives generously!

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/cork-hurling-squad-take-on-solo-run-challenge-for-marymount-hospice-994702.html

https://www.gofundme.com/f/corkhurlersformarymount

Itssoeasy

zetecescort wrote: »

Cork v Waterford in the 2004 Munster final on TG4 tomorrow at 2

It along with a good load of games are on the gaa official YouTube channel in full.

Wtf ?

Save your aspirations and dreams, Dubs will slaughter all for another year or 2 then they will collapse again for God knows how long !

ShamoBuc

Wtf ? wrote: »

Save your aspirations and dreams, Dubs will slaughter all for another year or 2 then they will collapse again for God knows how long !

We are mostly talking hurling fella.

zetecescort

Last years minor football final on TG4 tomorrow at 8

The_Kew_Tour

zetecescort wrote: »

Last years minor football final on TG4 tomorrow at 8

Great stuff. Didn’t really play well over 70 minutes but blew Galway away in extra time.

Billy Ocean

https://youtu.be/y38tRsmtMsw

Seen Fintan O'Toole had the honours of picking a cork team of the last 25 years.

zetecescort

rolling boh

A great supporter in Jonty passes away sad news a great character chatted to him several times over the years when CORK played the DUBS rip .

The_Kew_Tour

Was a lovely man. Was proud clubman too. Was geniune person which why he was popular. No fakeness. A true gent.

rolling boh

I should have posted earlier that the gang he was with always brought great colour and would have supported Cork anywhere always chatted away with supporters in a repectful way in my expierence .

ShamoBuc

Jonty was a real character, very much respected and will be missed.

zetecescort

RIP.

Never met him but no doubting the dedication of him and his group. The mind boggles and the miles done by them up and down the country to games at all grades, men or women

Straight Talker

I think someone should remind this fella, that Cork have thirty all Irelands while Clare just have the four.:D The 1999 Munster final, 2005 all Ireland semi final, and 2013 all Ireland semi final.It was Cork who finished off that great Clare team in 1999, and we were also responsible for two of Anthony Dalys most traumatic defeats as a manager.So i suppose the mans bitterness is understandable.As Tomas Mulcahy said, Teddy McCarthy did in two weeks, what it took Clare nearly 100 years to do.;) For a crowd who haven't even won five all Irelands, they do have notions in Clare.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/anthony-daly-we-look-at-cork-differently-now--theyre-no-longer-the-feared-machine-they-once-were-998728.html

BloodyBill

It was a fair enough article. There was no dig in it at all. Nothing but respect in there. Daly has often talked about losing way more than winning and of the devastating hammerings they got ,especially 93. There is a lack if ruthlessness in Cork. It's a lack of know how. The defeat by Limerick in 2018 was devastating. He even said theres a bright future there so I think you need to reread that article if you think its a kick in the gut . And if your highlighting Teddy McCarthy great feats in 2020 as an example...It was 1990. Teddy McCarthy is collecting the pension.

The_Kew_Tour

He is right. Cork have lost so much of that respect and fear. To be fair even Kilkenny and Tipp don’t have it like they used to either, but Cork have went further down that mountain than other big two.

Straight Talker

BloodyBill wrote: »

It was a fair enough article. There was no dig in it at all. Nothing but respect in there. Daly has often talked about losing way more than winning and of the devastating hammerings they got ,especially 93. There is a lack if ruthlessness in Cork. It's a lack of know how. The defeat by Limerick in 2018 was devastating. He even said theres a bright future there so I think you need to reread that article if you think its a kick in the gut . And if your highlighting Teddy McCarthy great feats in 2020 as an example...It was 1990. Teddy McCarthy is collecting the pension.

Yeah and name me what other counties, have achieved that feat since 1990?Cork hurling has it's problems, but we are a county of serious heritage and tradition, and that has to be respected.Lack of talent isn't the issue.However workrate and desire perhaps is, as well as that Cork teams find it tough to compete in the physical exchanges.In that article he's going on about the strikes, but Frank is gone, and we even have Donal Og Cusack managing the minors now.Cork hurling has it's problems, but a fall out from the strikes is no longer the issue.I just saw that article as an attempt, to spread as much negativity as possible about Cork hurling.This is a man who last summer was openly speculating about trouble in the Cork camp.As bad a manager as John Meyler was for Cork, that sort of thing was still uncalled for.