I said the same thing at the time. Huge overlap and wrong option taken. What a pity !
We just couldn't drive it on in that second half. That Tyrone goal proved to be very costly indeed. Hopefully we'll win that prelim final anyway, although i think we'll be on the road for that. Anyway hopefully the hurlers take care of Offaly with the minimum of fuss and that we don't pick up any injuries.
I think he's doing a good job overall. We failed to drive it on in that second half, but this Tyrone team were all Ireland champions as recently as three years ago after all. Quarter finals is the bare minimum target this year. One more win and we are there. Someone did highlight in the Echo that we are very reliant on scoring goals, and that our points tallies are too low.
Rubbish post tbh
The Hurlers not playing like we expected them to play so far.
8 points up and just doing enough. Offaly fouling non stop and it feels like they dont want to get pushed around by us kind of thing. I'd say they will get a man sent off in the second half if things go on as is.
We look very rusty but beginning to get going late in the half. Its a game where we just want to get it over with and get out with no injuries.
Poor performance really. Only 5 points on it. Very sluggish
That's another poor performance by the Cork hurlers. A reality check needed again, Dublin will have nothing to worry about facing us. We don't need to be talking of winning the All Ireland just yet. If we beat Dublin and get by, l fear we will be hammered v Limerick.
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That went as expected. Offaly made a game of it but fouled a lot as well. The late hit on Horgan was very sneaky.
The 2 late goals leave a sour taste but its just a case of getting the win and getting out of there. Good to see the subs getting a run. Robbie O'Flynn looked sharp when he came on. We had a load of wides as well but thats when you havent played in a bit. This game will bring us on a good bit now as we were very rusty looking after the break. Remember we had a 4 week break. Very long time.
Still stuff to improve on but we don't want to be peaking in this match. Next up is Dublin which should be a bit harder again but good preparation for the semis.
Good input well done.
I take you points but the one thing I fear was Offaly got three goals today and missed two others. This could have been alot closer.
A win is a win.
30 point victory serves no purpose for the next game.
Perform when we need to.
If anything it could have been a bigger win in my view. Give them the 2 goals. We had 14 wides. Even if we just got half of them, we are one more ahead. Some of Colemans wides in particular were really bad but its rare to see him miss so much. I put it down to rustiness.
This also keeps peoples hopes down a bit and hopefully Limerick think they will hammer us like you do!! It always the best position to be in. Through to the next round but people unimpressed. We have way more gears. You can see that when the lead went down to 5 points. Suddenly we were 8 up again and still won by 9 after 2 late goals.
I agree we did have more gears but the last two goals were a worry in that Offaly got them relatively easy.
Any idea of a throw in time for next Saturday? If Munster win in the rugby the final will be in Limerick with a 5pm k.o. Not sure would that have an impact on throw in time with tv coverage to avoid a clash.
Throw in time not confirmed yet. I see Wexford want their game moved to Sunday.
After today, Patrick Horgan is now 10 points behind TJ Reid in the scoring charts
We'll just take the win but conceding 3 19 to Offaly is a slight concern i think. We have to worry about Dublin first, but Limerick will ruthlessly exploit any defensive vulnerabilities in the semi final.
It be good if Cork can win again the next day with a good competitive game
RTE announced late March they had Quarter Final slots for June 22nd at 1.15pm and 3.15pm
meeting tomorrow to possibly change the hurling to Sunday
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41417137.html
I reckon it will get changed. The Féile being on the Saturday is enough of a reason I think. As that was already known in advance, it should have been fixed for the Sunday from the beginning.
aren’t the tailtean games supposed to be live on TV as well? Hence why the hurling was the Saturday! Cork going behind a paywall again will be a massive joke!!
While I appreciate the fact no result for hurlers would satisfy anyone, to concede 3-19 and they could easily got 2 more goals has be a concern at some level.
If the matches swapped wouldn't they still be on RTE either way? The Tailtean teams were always promised the Sunday matches so think it would be fairly late in the day to change. Guess they wouldn't be meeting unless they were considering switching them. Think the meeting is 7.30 this evening so should know outcome either tonight or tomorrow.
In our five games we averaged 2-23 conceded. 3-19 is about the same as 2-23.
But we are averaging 3-26 scored. Keep going as is and we win the whole thing!
The question that should be asked is who is going to keep us out? Limerick didn't. Connolly didn't even score against Offaly and it was still no problem. We are not relying on one guy, We racked up big scores down to 14 against Waterford and Clare too.
Ok I'm a bit tongue in cheek but it seems like this team is all about the attack. Of course, its a worry conceding but once we score more than we let in, its ok!!!
A different sport I know but Italy and Germany win world cups for a reason. Poor defences will always be found out in the end!
The change motion was defeated
1 o'clock Saturday is such a stupid time for a game. Pity they are fixing games to suit those sitting at home rather than those who want to attend. Thurles has lights, why not 5 and 7 throw ins?
Motion needed 60% to pass but only got 57.4%! It needed 29 votes but only got 27 out of 47
