All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2024 (Munster And Leinster Championships,Liam McCarthy Cup)

Not sure where you getting upset the odds from, cork slight favourites on all the betting platforms I have seen

If Clare can come close to matching Corks workrate I think they can pull it off. Cork coughed up quite a few goal scoring chances against a Limerick side who aren't renowed for scoring goals. Clare on the other hand can be pretty ruthless with even their midfield and half backs getting in on the act.

They also have better hurlers in midfield than Limerick who can do the dirty work defending but also offer a real scoring threat and it's another area that Cork will need to lock down. Against Limerick they had to worry about O Donoghue turning them over but never had to deal with him as a scoring threat. Fitzgerald and Malone can both hurt you.

However, Clare have yet to put in a 70min performance this year. When they're at peak, no one has been able to live with them but when the foot comes off the gas they can look like a Joe McDonagh team. They simply have to play both half's like their lives depend on it.

If Cork turn up like the 21 final Lohan himself could afford to make a testominal appearance in the 2nd half

But if he responds you'll just deny it. He can stay at it until Cork win another All Ireland and you'll still not accept it so what's the point.

How about this - can you prove the opposite to what he's saying?

P. S. You don't understand irony so keep your wacky personalised theories for someone who (a) actually vaguely recognises your username as having made some kind of memorable contribution and (b) vaguely cares what you think.

Of course that was the end of the great clare 90s team. Shefflin DJ and Martin comeford tore clare apar.

Any team would have beaten Clare that day they were lethargic.

Limerick beat Clare rather easily in their two games this year. I think if Clare are to beat Cork, Cork will not have performed to the heights of the Limerick games. If Cork are better than the Limerick games, then Clare will find it hard to win. There is pressure on Clare just as much as Cork, Lohan trying to win his first All Ireland as a manager is also pressure just as much as Cork trying to bridge a 19 year gap to win an All Ireland.

Wow I obviously hit a nerve ,but as the say the truth hurts lol.I don't have to prove anything to you or any other keyboard warrior on here,I know what I've been looking at for 20 odd yrs.If you take off the red and white blinkers and stop listening to Donal Og's bs about pace,speed and athleticism and Cork are so quick us mere mortals can't see the handpass.Go and have a look at Connollys goal against Tipp ,the one where Luke Meade and himself threw the ball to eachother twice in case your confused.As far as being gutless is concerned if you want an example of that have a look at your no 10 ,very apt that he wears a yellow helmet don't u think.

I never said Cork invented anything. Best to read my posts before replying. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. Certainly it is true to say that they became associated with a handpass-reliant game in the 2000s, of which the illegal pass is an inevitable consequence. Now that Cork team always liked to bend the rules/norms such as they did with sliotars, unable to rely exclusively on ability it seems. So I wouldn't rule it out but I'm not saying it either.

Now to let you get this straight.......you asked for someone to "prove" a claim that Cork invented this style of play.

I have asked you to prove otherwise i.e. give us chapter and verse on an earlier inter-county team on which that Cork team based its approach.

You really would want to dry your eyes mate. Honestly, let it go.

That just about sums up why 31 counties will be shouting f9r Clare tomorrow,and I'm not your mate .No doubt u and your mates will br on the hill tomorrow booing the freetakers and burning flags.

Hoping for clare win as think cork will win few anyway next few years. Met lohan in ennis recently on stag, we were surprised how sound a fella he was especially to bunch drunk tipp lads so he gets my vote.

Its some contrast how cork hurling gets a following as opposed to their footballers. I love their support cast but football must be like a minnow down there. I think cork will win tomorrow. However rain might suit clare. We are expecting a classic but who knows it could be scrappy affair like 1999. We have been starved of decent finals since 2014, limerick kilkenny 2022 springs to mind followed by limerick galway in 18 as half decent finals. Rest were poor enough.