Cork GAA Discussion Thread

Pos087

Great to have a bit of positivity back around the hurling. The doom and gloom in resent years was palpable at games. Any wide of miss placed pass was met with moans and groans. The cork hurling public are a fickle bunch. This last 10 years was seen by many as the darkest in cork hurling. I would like to point out if we win Munster this year we will have 4 this decade. I might be wrong but I think Clare have 6 in total. The CCB get a lot of stick and never any credit. The appoint of JBM, Kingston and now Meyler have all progressed hurling. Under age structure is now flying (CCB got a a@@ kicking and rightly so). I can feel the buzz is back. It won’t be long before we are at the top table again. We have gone from 4-5 years ago struggling to get out of division 1b to experimenting with teams and winning games in 1a. I know the standard of the league is lower but the mentality of the whole county has changed. I was talking to a lad on the Luas after Tipp (Seamus Call) hammered us out the gate in the all Ireland semi and we both agreed it would be at least 10 years before we were in the top 6. I believe today we are in the top 3 with very little between the top 4. Roll on the summer and the red and white wall of positive happy supporters. Up the rebels.

BloodyBill

Pos087 wrote: »

Great to have a bit of positivity back around the hurling. The doom and gloom in resent years was palpable at games. Any wide of miss placed pass was met with moans and groans. The cork hurling public are a fickle bunch. This last 10 years was seen by many as the darkest in cork hurling. I would like to point out if we win Munster this year we will have 4 this decade. I might be wrong but I think Clare have 6 in total. The CCB get a lot of stick and never any credit. The appoint of JBM, Kingston and now Meyler have all progressed hurling. Under age structure is now flying (CCB got a a@@ kicking and rightly so). I can feel the buzz is back. It won’t be long before we are at the top table again. We have gone from 4-5 years ago struggling to get out of division 1b to experimenting with teams and winning games in 1a. I know the standard of the league is lower but the mentality of the whole county has changed. I was talking to a lad on the Luas after Tipp (Seamus Call) hammered us out the gate in the all Ireland semi and we both agreed it would be at least 10 years before we were in the top 6. I believe today we are in the top 3 with very little between the top 4. Roll on the summer and the red and white wall of positive happy supporters. Up the rebels.

As a Munsterman but not a Cork man I'd agree with that. Cork are in a good place, lots of options up front. The issue with the current squad is they lack abit of power up the middle although I'd rate O Mahoney and I think Cadogan is your best bet at full back. I also think you do have more options on the bench this year but will Meyler trust them in the Summer. You could throw a blanket over Cork,Limerick and Galway at the moment. Clare not far behind and then the rest not far back again.

Amprodude

YoTaro wrote: »

Any comment?? Did you see the game?

I actually did see the game.. It was a close contest and one we were lucky to come away with the win. We were good bit better than Limerick like last year only we closed out the game this time. Limerick are good team but I do think Cork are the better hurlers and probably should have closed out Limerick last year in the semi only the sub bench left them down. Hopefully that problem is rectified for this season.

Amprodude

Mahony0509 wrote: »

Amprodude is very quiet about the hurlers today 😂😂😂

Well It was great to beat the All Ireland champions. Can we maintain this coming into championship and give the All Ireland one more rattle? That remains to be seen.

Amprodude

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Huge game next week for the footballers. Away to Tipp. We really have to win. Hopefully Fermanagh beat Clare as a Cork win would then have us Tip and Clare on 3 points. With 2 going down it really is a make or break weekend for the footballers.

Where have you got this idea that it's going to be a weekend that could make the Cork footballers? Cork football is broken as it is. We are facing division 3 and the way the footballers are performing we deserve to be there. There is no case of hoping other results go our way. If we can't stay up in Division 2 we deserve to go down and no question about that. You can't be hoping results go our way so to save our status in Division 2. Was that part of the 5 year plan? Get with the program.

Amprodude

zetecescort wrote: »

horses for courses. whether Walsh starts or not he looks like giving us an alternative to some of the smaller lads if we want/need to change things during a game.

Still don't think he cuts the mustard and we will find this out come championship.

BloodyBill

Amprodude wrote: »

I actually did see the game.. It was a close contest and one we were lucky to come away with the win. We were good bit better than Limerick like last year only we closed out the game this time. Limerick are good team but I do think Cork are the better hurlers and probably should have closed out Limerick last year in the semi only the sub bench left them down. Hopefully that problem is rectified for this season.

The only caveat to that 'being a good bit better than Limerick' is that hurling is a physical and mental game aswell. Cork have fantastic hurlers but come Championship time mentally Cork are abit brittle due to losing so many semi finals. Physically they can be bullied, obviously the likes of Harnedy wouldn't be . If Limerick and a Cork are level going into the last ten minutes in the Summer then you'd fancy Limerick.

Amprodude

BloodyBill wrote: »

The only caveat to that 'being a good bit better than Limerick' is that hurling is a physical and mental game aswell. Cork have fantastic hurlers but come Championship time mentally Cork are abit brittle due to losing so many semi finals. Physically they can be bullied, obviously the likes of Harnedy wouldn't be . If Limerick and a Cork are level going into the last ten minutes in the Summer then you'd fancy Limerick.

Totally agree. That's a problem Cork have had last few years in semi finals. It's a hurdle they must overcome.

GeordieRebel

BloodyBill wrote: »

The only caveat to that 'being a good bit better than Limerick' is that hurling is a physical and mental game aswell. Cork have fantastic hurlers but come Championship time mentally Cork are abit brittle due to losing so many semi finals. Physically they can be bullied, obviously the likes of Harnedy wouldn't be . If Limerick and a Cork are level going into the last ten minutes in the Summer then you'd fancy Limerick.

I’m not sure that’s entirely fair. If you take away the semi final last year I don’t think we have lost a close championship game for quite a while (off the top of my head so open to correction). I think against Limerick they just didn’t have the panel to compensate for Harnedy, Kearney and Fitzgibbon. They were the primary ball winners and we didn’t have anything comparable off the bench. I don’t think it had anything much to do with being mentally brittle. In fairness to Meyler there’s been at least 30 lads (and hampered by the Fitz to try more) used in the league so far so he’s looking for options and the likes of O’Mahony, Walsh, Murphy have all looked up to speed along with Cadogan being back, albeit looking rusty.

It’ll be very interesting to see our starting forward line for the first championship game. Probably 10 realistic options to choose from so there’ll be a significantly stronger bench for than last year if all fit.

Reckon I would go with:

Lehane - Harnedy - Kearney - Meade

Hoggy - Walsh

That leaves you with Cadogan, Kingston, Mick Cahalane (when fit), Robbie O’Flynn, O’Halloran and Cormac Murphy off the bench in the forwards.

The main problem we still have is we are over reliant on Harnedy to win ball and act as the only real goal threat. If he goes down we are nowhere near the same team.

RedRochey

The only close championship game I can think of was when they beat Tipp in Thurles with Michael Cahalane getting that goal towards the end

KrustyUCC

Might not have lost close championship games but we drew two bad ones against Tipp and Limerick last year from winning positions in injury time

I know we won the Munster final but we conceded a poor injury time goal as well

Something to work on this year hopefully

ShamoBuc

Amprodude wrote: »

Where have you got this idea that it's going to be a weekend that could make the Cork footballers? Cork football is broken as it is. We are facing division 3 and the way the footballers are performing we deserve to be there. There is no case of hoping other results go our way. If we can't stay up in Division 2 we deserve to go down and no question about that. You can't be hoping results go our way so to save our status in Division 2. Was that part of the 5 year plan? Get with the program.

Any sensible person would not want their county to go down to a division that the county had never been to before. You seem to be hoping they do relegated- just to prove a point, what does that say about you?
You keep banging on about a 5 year plan. Everyone knows that plans like that are pie in the sky stuff, not worth commenting on in my opinion as they only look good on paper.
It would neither help nor stop what is happening this year, to think otherwise is the height of stupidity.
We have a slender chance of staying up. We will need results to go our way. I hope they do. Going down another division will not help in any manner. Players need to be playing better quality of teams to try and improve. Things are not great now but their performances are not as good as they should be. Improve the performances and they can hold their own in division 2. They are capable of better, plenty to be ironed out in the background and on the training pitch.
Less and less interest will be shown to the footballers the further they fall. Staying in division 2 this year would be a very good achievement for them and I hope they do it.

Amprodude

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Any sensible person would not want their county to go down to a division that the county had never been to before. You seem to be hoping they do relegated- just to prove a point, what does that say about you?
You keep banging on about a 5 year plan. Everyone knows that plans like that are pie in the sky stuff, not worth commenting on in my opinion as they only look good on paper.
It would neither help nor stop what is happening this year, to think otherwise is the height of stupidity.
We have a slender chance of staying up. We will need results to go our way. I hope they do. Going down another division will not help in any manner. Players need to be playing better quality of teams to try and improve. Things are not great now but their performances are not as good as they should be. Improve the performances and they can hold their own in division 2. They are capable of better, plenty to be ironed out in the background and on the training pitch.
Less and less interest will be shown to the footballers the further they fall. Staying in division 2 this year would be a very good achievement for them and I hope they do it.

We are last in the table why do we deserve to stay up? As a cork supporter there is a system in place and if we aren't good enough like we are now we have to go and simple as that. The footballers have had their chances but they arent good enough to stay up. They are at the bottom of the table yes in Division 2. Trashed by nearly every team this year. We aren't even division 2 now and people like you who are just delusional and living in a fantasy world cant see the bigger picture at all. You are one poster who would agree that if Cork win the next day they are automatically All Ireland contenders. Get with the picture.

zetecescort

Jesus Bob Ryan is some clown. You'd swear he had nothing to do with the redevelopment. few have caused more damage than Bob in recent years

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/mckenna-accused-of-causing-unforgivable-reputational-damage-907371.html

The White Feather

This Saturday will be the 40th anniversary of the death of the Great Christy Ring.


I saw there will be a Mass in memory of him tomorrow night at 7.30 in the Glen Rovers Club in case people didn't know.

ShamoBuc

Amprodude wrote: »

We are last in the table why do we deserve to stay up? As a cork supporter there is a system in place and if we aren't good enough like we are now we have to go and simple as that. The footballers have had their chances but they arent good enough to stay up. They are at the bottom of the table yes in Division 2. Trashed by nearly every team this year. We aren't even division 2 now and people like you who are just delusional and living in a fantasy world can see the bigger picture at all. You are one poster who would agree that if Cork win the next day they are automatically All Ireland contenders. Get with the picture.

While you normally post negative drivel, the above is about as wholly nonsensical as is absolutely possible. If we are in the bottom 2 when the league is over, then we deserve to go down. We still have a chance of not finishing there. That's not a fantasy world, it's simple facts. Equally, if they did stay up, then they would have deserved it. You might hope we get hammered in every game, to highlight the set up is not up to scratch but the world and their mother already know that. If you think being relegated to division 3 is a good thing, you'll probably be delighted if we ever went down to 4.

I would much prefer to stay up, however unlikely. I don't see things changing for the better because of relegation. I'm not sure why you seem all for it.

Itssoeasy

I never saw Christy Ring play or even him alive but I know plenty of people who saw him play or knew him personally including his niece and nephew. I spent most of my childhood summers in East Cork so heard about him all the time there. I can see why the mass in the Glen is tomorrow as it was a friday the day he died.

zetecescort

The Cork Senior Football team to play Tipperary in Round 5 of the National Football League this Saturday in Thurles has been announced.




1. Micheál Aodh Martin (Nemo Rangers)

2. Sam Ryan (St Finbarrs)

3. Kevin Flahive (Douglas)

4. Conor Dennehy (St Finbarrs)

5. Kevin Crowley (Millstreet)

6. Thomas Clancy (Clonakilty)

7. Mattie Taylor (Mallow)

8. Ian Maguire (St Finbarrs)

9. Killian O' Hanlon (Kilshannig)

10. Mark Collins (Castlehaven)

11. Luke Connolly (Nemo Rangers)

12. Ruairi Deane (Bantry)

13. Michael Hurley (Castlehaven)

14. Brian Hurley (Castlehaven)

15. Paul Kerrigan (Nemo Rangers)

16. Chris Kelly (Eire Og)

17. Kevin O' Donovan (Nemo Rangers)

18. Peter Murphy (Bandon)

19. Tomas Clancy (Fermoy)

20. Stephen Cronin (Nemo Rangers)

21. Cian Kiely (Ballincollig)

22. Paul Walsh (Kanturk)

23. Ronan O' Toole (Eire Og)

24. Eoghan McSweeney (Knocknagree)

25. Damien Gore (Kilmacabea)

26. Sean Powter (Douglas)

Amprodude

ShamoBuc wrote: »

While you normally post negative drivel, the above is about as wholly nonsensical as is absolutely possible. If we are in the bottom 2 when the league is over, then we deserve to go down. We still have a chance of not finishing there. That's not a fantasy world, it's simple facts. Equally, if they did stay up, then they would have deserved it. You might hope we get hammered in every game, to highlight the set up is not up to scratch but the world and their mother already know that. If you think being relegated to division 3 is a good thing, you'll probably be delighted if we ever went down to 4.

I would much prefer to stay up, however unlikely. I don't see things changing for the better because of relegation. I'm not sure why you seem all for it.

I'm not for relegation but we can't stay up in division 2 if we aren't good enough. So division 3 is about where we are with bad management and coaching over the years has led to all of this. You are on here then saying its make or break for the footballers this weekend when everyone in cork knows the footballers have being going down the swanny since 2013 and we have nothing to be positive in 2019 with the footballers bar going down to division 3 where we now belong. We are LAST in division 2. Does that tell you something?

If we are good enough again we will rise up to higher divisions. Sometimes even when you are trying to be optismic here about Cork football you end up coming to conclusions that all isn't bad in the Cork setup. You are part of the reason Cork football is where it is now.

Amprodude

ShamoBuc wrote: »

staying in division 2 this year would be a very good achievement for them and I hope they do it.

What are you on about? That's really embarrassing now. The fact that they have a high chance of being relegated is bad but you are saying its an achievement to stay in division 2. They should be winning division 2 without a doubt. Too many people like you in the county willing to accept things like that. Not willing to accept we should be doing better than staying in division 2. You simply just don't get it.

grbear

https://amp.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/yourview/readers-blog-cork-gaa-right-to-challenge-croke-park-907757.html

Hey all,


Is that letter in any way representative of the feelings of Cork GAA fans regarding Peter McKennas recent interview regarding the overspend on Pairc UI Chaoimh?

It's seems like complete and utter nonsense to me but I'm an outsider. While McKenna's worst case scenario of a €110 million cost seems unlikely now it did force the Cork board to admit the final cost would be almost €10million higher that the figure they were peddling at the time McKenna made his intervention.

Mahony0509

zetecescort wrote: »

The Cork Senior Football team to play Tipperary in Round 5 of the National Football League this Saturday in Thurles has been announced.




1. Micheál Aodh Martin (Nemo Rangers)

2. Sam Ryan (St Finbarrs)

3. Kevin Flahive (Douglas)

4. Conor Dennehy (St Finbarrs)

5. Kevin Crowley (Millstreet)

6. Thomas Clancy (Clonakilty)

7. Mattie Taylor (Mallow)

8. Ian Maguire (St Finbarrs)

9. Killian O' Hanlon (Kilshannig)

10. Mark Collins (Castlehaven)

11. Luke Connolly (Nemo Rangers)

12. Ruairi Deane (Bantry)

13. Michael Hurley (Castlehaven)

14. Brian Hurley (Castlehaven)

15. Paul Kerrigan (Nemo Rangers)

16. Chris Kelly (Eire Og)

17. Kevin O' Donovan (Nemo Rangers)

18. Peter Murphy (Bandon)

19. Tomas Clancy (Fermoy)

20. Stephen Cronin (Nemo Rangers)

21. Cian Kiely (Ballincollig)

22. Paul Walsh (Kanturk)

23. Ronan O' Toole (Eire Og)

24. Eoghan McSweeney (Knocknagree)

25. Damien Gore (Kilmacabea)

26. Sean Powter (Douglas)

Have they gotten rid of the other goalkeeper?

ShamoBuc

Amprodude wrote: »

You are part of the reason Cork football is where it is now.

:pac:

Amprodude wrote: »

What are you on about? That's really embarrassing now. The fact that they have a high chance of being relegated is bad but you are saying its an achievement to stay in division 2. They should be winning division 2 without a doubt. Too many people like you in the county willing to accept things like that. Not willing to accept we should be doing better than staying in division 2. You simply just don't get it.

They are bottom currently, IF they could turn that fact around to finish 3rd from bottom, then that would be a great achievement. Of course it would. Not sure how you think that's embarassing !! Playing in division 3 would/will be embarassing- considering only us, Kerry and Dublin have never been there before, but it is looming ever closer.
We have a knack of selecting the wrong manager/set up for Cork football. That wont change if we stay up Or get relegated. That's where the problem has been for a number of years. We wont get straight back to div 2 without fixing that.

' We should be winning Div 2' - I disagree. Our players - currently- aren't good enough to win Div 2.
I believe we should be competitive, which after 4 games, we aren't. Hoping that could change in the next 3 games, but also preparing for the worst.

zetecescort

The Cork Senior Hurling team for the Round 5 of the National Hurling League against Tipperary this Sunday has been announced.



1. Anthony Nash (Kanturk)

2. Darren Browne (Kanturk)

3. Damien Cahalane (St Finbarrs)

4. Stephen McDonnell (Glen Rovers)

5. Christopher Joyce (Na Piarsaigh)

6. Tim O' Mahony (Newtownshandrum)

7. Eoin Cadogan (Douglas)

8. Cormac Murphy (Mallow)

9. Bill Cooper (Youghal)

10. Conor Lehane (Midleton)

11. Seamus Harnedy (St Itas) - Captain

12. Dan Dooley (Bride Rovers)

13. Jack O' Connor (Midleton)

14. Aidan Walsh (Kanturk)

15. Patrick Horgan (Glen Rovers)

16. Patrick Collins (Ballinhassig)

17. Robert Downey (Glen Rovers)

18. Daniel Kearney (Sarsfields)

19. Conor Cahalane (St Finbarrs)

20. Alan Cadogan (Douglas)

21. Ger Millerick (Fr O' Neills)

22. David Griffin (Carrigaline)

23. Luke Meade (Newcestown)

24. Robbie O' Flynn (Erins Own)

25. Mark Coleman (Blarney)

26. Shane Kingston (Douglas)

Fixture

Aidan Walsh very obviously in management plans for the season ahead.
Good to see Dooley getting another chance.
Glad to see the UCC lads rested.
Has Cormac Murphy done enough to warrant a start every week? - again it looks like they are keen to have him as an option for the Summer.
Would love to see Coleman midfield this year rather than half back
We’ve definitely added more depth through the league but defense still looks our weak point

Pos087

If us or Waterford win all Ireland it will be 5 different county’s winning in a row and 6 thus decade. That is why hurling is flying. It will be so close again this year a bad ref call or mistake could cost one of 6-7 teams an all Ireland. But for me Limerick are favorites. It was no luck they won last year. Beat all the big guns Tipp, Kilkenny, Cork and Galway. For me we are still missing an Timmy or Niall Mc type player in forwards. Walsh has had a great league and I’m a big fan but once the ground hardens and the pace picks up I think he will struggle (I hope I’m wrong). Like wise at the back I feel we need more ball winners. I will count this year how many balls we win cleanly in the air from long puck outs. I will guess I could count with my fingers. Because of this we cough up 6-7 easy scores every game from our own puck out. It’s very hard to kill a game giving that many soft points away. Another big issue I have noticed in the last few years is nearly every time we score a goal we loss the next puck out and the opposition score. We were alway thought the next score after a goal is crucial. It’s the difference between a 4 point and 2 point swing. Roll on the summer.

The_Kew_Tour

Is there any special programs about the great Ring tonight over weekend?

ShamoBuc

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Is there any special programs about the great Ring tonight over weekend?

Not that I can see.
However, TG4 on Wednesday at 9.30 Laochra Gael will be on the one and only Rena Buckley.

zetecescort

It seems Ewan McKenna has turned his attention on the cost of Pairc Ui Chaoimh

https://twitter.com/EwanMacKenna/status/1101152736165482496?s=01

Edgware

zetecescort wrote: »

The Cork Senior Hurling team for the Round 5 of the National Hurling League against Tipperary this Sunday has been announced.



1. Anthony Nash (Kanturk)

2. Darren Browne (Kanturk)

3. Damien Cahalane (St Finbarrs)

4. Stephen McDonnell (Glen Rovers)

5. Christopher Joyce (Na Piarsaigh)

6. Tim O' Mahony (Newtownshandrum)

7. Eoin Cadogan (Douglas)

8. Cormac Murphy (Mallow)

9. Bill Cooper (Youghal)

10. Conor Lehane (Midleton)

11. Seamus Harnedy (St Itas) - Captain

12. Dan Dooley (Bride Rovers)

13. Jack O' Connor (Midleton)

14. Aidan Walsh (Kanturk)

15. Patrick Horgan (Glen Rovers)

16. Patrick Collins (Ballinhassig)

17. Robert Downey (Glen Rovers)

18. Daniel Kearney (Sarsfields)

19. Conor Cahalane (St Finbarrs)

20. Alan Cadogan (Douglas)

21. Ger Millerick (Fr O' Neills)

22. David Griffin (Carrigaline)

23. Luke Meade (Newcestown)

24. Robbie O' Flynn (Erins Own)

25. Mark Coleman (Blarney)

26. Shane Kingston (Douglas)

3 from Kanturk , none from Blackrock. W.T.F.! is going on out there?