Cork GAA Discussion Thread

The White Feather · 24-03-2023 10:26PM

Cork Team to play Kilkenny. Interesting to see the midfield pairing of Roche and Twomey. Tim O'Mahony and Hoggie on the subs bench so it will be good to give them some minutes. Forwards look really good. Hope Power continues to impress.

Seamus Harnedy, Seán O'Donoghue, Declan Dalton and Darragh Fitzgibbon all out injured though so thats disappointing

MisterAnarchy · 24-03-2023 10:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120377892#Comment_120377892

Bizarre, Cork win their group yet have to play away in the semi final.

zetecescort · 24-03-2023 10:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120397883#Comment_120397883

Forwards look good for summer hurling, not sure they're suited to a wet day in Nowlan park. Lehane, Kingston and O'Connor not known for doing the dirty work.

The White Feather · 24-03-2023 10:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120397964#Comment_120397964

Cork and Kilkenny had a home/away agreement

zetecescort · 24-03-2023 10:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120397964#Comment_120397964

Cork and Kilkenny have a home and away arrangement. We played them in Cork in last years league semifinal.

MisterAnarchy · 24-03-2023 10:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120397987#Comment_120397987

Ah fair enough

zetecescort · 25-03-2023 02:18PM

Ladies football leading 2-5 to 0-5 against Meath at HT. On TG4

zetecescort · 25-03-2023 03:09PM

Cork win 2-8 to 0-11

zetecescort · 25-03-2023 08:50PM

The Cork Senior Football team to play Derry in the Allianz Football League Division 2 Round 7 has been announced

Micheál Aodh Martin (Nemo Rangers)
Sean Meehan (Kiskeam) Captain
Maurice Shanley (Clonakilty)
Tommy Walsh (Kanturk)
Luke Fahy (Ballincollig)
Rory Maguire (Castlehaven)
Sean Powter (Douglas)
Colm O’Callaghan (Éire Óg)
Ian Maguire (St Finbarr’s)
Eoghan McSweeney (Knocknagree)
Ruairí Deane (Bantry Blues)
Brian O’Driscoll (Tadhg Mc Carthaigh)
Conor Corbett (Clyda Rovers)
Chris Óg Jones (Uibh Laoire)
Steven Sherlock (St Finbarr’s)
Chris Kelly (Éire Óg)
Kevin O’Donovan (Nemo Rangers)
Paul Ring (Aghabullogue)
Cian Kiely (Ballincollig)
Matty Taylor (Mallow)
Killian O’Hanlon (Kilshannig)
John O’Rourke (Carbery Rangers)
Paul Walsh (Kanturk)
Mark Cronin (Nemo Rangers)
Fionn Herlihy (Dohenys)
Daniel Dineen (Cill na Martra)

Camogie v Galway beforehand at 12 for anyone heading down early

The_Kew_Tour · 26-03-2023 02:58PM

Looking forward to hurling later.

A proper test in Nolan Park. A win would be huge lift.

The White Feather · 26-03-2023 04:56PM

Enjoyable first half. Kilkenny really wanting to win it seems whereas Cork not killing themselves. Ref has been very poor giving a lot of frees in particular to Kilkenny. Once we were in on goal and he called it back for a free for us. Another one it looked like Power fell over and he gave us a free.

No pressure being really put on Kilkenny players a lot of the time.

The White Feather · 26-03-2023 05:04PM

Cahalane as usual doing bread dead stuff. Deserved a red card clearly. Not sure why ref let him off . As I sad, the ref is very poor

zetecescort · 26-03-2023 05:04PM

Footballers draw with Derry with a goal from the last kick of the game. not great for most of it and a mix of Derry relaxing when 7 up and us making a few changes brought us back into it.

Camogie beaten by a point, conceded a soft goal messing with the ball in defence. will play Galway again in the league final in two weeks

zetecescort · 26-03-2023 05:07PM

its all well and good standing up to them but we could do without any suspensions for the championship. Kilkenny only have Westmeath first up

MisterAnarchy · 26-03-2023 05:13PM

Someone needs to tell the Cork players that it isnt a training match.

Seadin · 26-03-2023 05:19PM

I don't mind losing once there was a good effort put in with defeat. Im not sure with the Cork performance today.

The White Feather · 26-03-2023 05:20PM

I have thought from the start that Cork are not really trying to win other than the new players. It does look like we are treating it as a training match for the most part. Most Kilkenny players are under no pressure

DellyBelly · 26-03-2023 05:47PM

Disappointed with that...I just can't see this squad winning an All Ireland this year. Think they are very fragile...questions get asked and unfortunately they can't answer them

The_Kew_Tour · 26-03-2023 05:55PM

Ya its hard to read too much into today.

Hate saying this but might be blessing after Limericks performance last night.

We won't really know where Cork are until end of Munster.

This year was never about lifting Liam but to get more physical and get bit nearer to Limerick. I think we have but only so slightly.

The real answer is to come.

ShamoBuc · 26-03-2023 06:00PM

Disappointing to lose and pick up a suspension.

They were certainly not going full throttle and have used the league well.

I think that we are in a better position now than this time last year but the real challenges are yet to come.

Straight Talker · 26-03-2023 06:01PM

Disapointing result but overall it's been a decent league campaign. We do have some of the more experienced players still to come back, and if we have a decent championship then today will be quickly forgotten about! Well done to the footballers, on coming back to get a draw against Derry though.

It's been quarter of a century since our most recent league title in hurling. Ah well that's just the way it is. I think we have the right management teams in place in both senior codes, but there'll probably be a few more bumps along the road, before we return to glory in both codes.

Jizique · 26-03-2023 06:08PM

Not sure another game v Limerick ahead of the championship was ideal, suspect the management know this too

Cork2021 · 26-03-2023 06:08PM

That was poor by Cork, sauntered around the pitch. Cahalane I still don’t know how he gets a start! Patrick Collins looked laboured as well. Overall very poor.

I suppose getting to the league final last year didn’t help us but you’d expect more!

ACitizenErased · 26-03-2023 06:35PM

Think we need a new keeper. Collins was so so poor today, hitting the ball out of play when the mans standing out in front of him is braindead stuff

Seadin · 26-03-2023 07:59PM

I would have preferred if Cork went all out to win today. We needed to be at our best to beat Kilkenny at Nowlan Park. Kilkenny were just that bit sharper and scored well when it mattered. I'm sure not everyone will agree with me but 1998 is along time ago since a league title. I know we would have got Limerick in the final and highly unlikely we would have won it but you got to get there first to have a chance.

Kilkenny will give it a right crack in the final and like the All Ireland final last year who knows what might happen? Cork aren't going to win an All Ireland this year, let's be realistic about this. We just aren't good enough at the moment.

We can be ready come championship but no guarantee we will get out of Munster. I prefer we try and win silverware when we can and there would be nothing wrong with league title for this Cork team if they had gone after it. All Munster teams will be strong so no guarantee we are getting out of Munster. Hope I'm wrong.

windy shepard henderson · 26-03-2023 08:34PM

felt cork looked like a team in heavy training today , had all the anger about them for a game against kilkenny but didnt seem to have the legs for the battle

today was the first real test in my opinion for the two blarney boys , Barrett and Power , i think both passed the test against probably the toughest back 6 in the game at the moment

ryan has defiantly improved areas that needed fixing under kingston its going to be interesting to see if cork have that next gear to really challenge this summer , big ask with limerick lurking around but huge steps of improvement made through out the league

26-03-2023 10:08PM

In all fairness, Cork are going nowhere when the likes of Cahalane is named in the backs. Simply not good enough.

windy shepard henderson · 26-03-2023 10:45PM

Look who's missing in that half back line on fairness

Seadin · 26-03-2023 11:26PM

What are people's hopes for Cork this year in hurling championship? Getting out of Munster? I can't see them doing anything more than that if they pull that off.

Straight Talker · 27-03-2023 03:44PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120403740#Comment_120403740

Outside of Limerick i think we're well capable of beating anyone. The main thing is to make sure we get out of Munster and then take things from there. I don't agree with this talk that it was good that we lost, just because it meant that we avoided Limerick. Limerick are a challenge that we have to try and face up to and deal with, i see no point in trying to hide from them.

Limerick have been the standard setters in hurling in the last five years, and that's the level we have to get to. Hurling has changed so much from the sport i grew up watching though.

I remember against Waterford in 1999 when we gave six players their championship debuts. You couldn't do that in the modern era, because the game has gotten so physical in the last seventeen or so years. The young fellas would just be eaten alive!

Those great Kilkenny teams under Brian Cody and the current Limerick team under John Kiely, have totally transformed and changed the landscape of hurling. We have struggled to adapt to that changing landscape. In the more modern era of hurling, you have to earn the right to hurl before you can hurl!

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