The engima that is Cork hurling

namloc1980

Cork aren't an enigma. They're just useless.

Asdfgh2020

I wonder where ‘The golden Miller’ guy/gal has gone. Not a ‘dicky-bird’ out of him in the last few months…..would he/she still have the same opinions on Cark hurling and their new skill this past two games i.e finishing games with 14 mean and getting multiple yellow cards from anti-cork/biased refs…..!

CrabRevolution

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122074616#Comment_122074616

As anyone on the soccer forum could tell you, that particular poster lives in an alternate reality.

carq

was he the ‘natural hurler’ guy?
hope he comes back , was funny winding him up before the all ireland a few years back when limerick naturally hockeyed cork.

another disappearing act then again

randd1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122074441#Comment_122074441

Cork can't defend properly. As a result, they rack up too many yellow cards, most of them nothing yellow cards, that come from poor defending technique.

Then one of them does something stupid, and gets a second yellow, and gets sent off.

It's been going on for years.

Tackle with the hurl, not the hand. Learn to flick/hook properly instead of just swinging the stick. Don't get sucked into a bunch in defence leaving two lads open, and then playing the arm to prevent a pass to a loose man. Don't put your hand on the back when tackling.

For all the talk of skill in Cork hurling, at the highest level the lack in basic awareness and skill in defences has cost Cork dearly in big games, arguably even an AI in 2017 (I reckon they've have done better against Galway than Waterford had they got past Waterford but a red card scuppered that).

Repeated soft yellow cards, which Cork tend to rack up more than anyone, is a symptom of poverty in defence. And poverty in defence won't win you anything.