Cork GAA Discussion Thread

It was a great game of hurling in fairness! I feel that we need to improve in the backs if we are to win that all Ireland. I said we'd win if we kept Clare goalless, but unfortunately that didn't happen!

It was a tough day at the office for some of our youngers lads, but they'll be all the better for the experience. I do think the future is still bright for this Cork team please god.

The lads from the u20 teams know how to win. Of course doing it at senior level is another thing entirely though!

Ultimately the same old failing cost us, as they have done so for the last 10 years. We don't have any ball winners in the half forward line, a la Niall Mc or Timmy Mc, as we had on the last team to win an AI. They don't need to be great hurlers, just able to win a dirty ball. Once only did one of our forwards win a clean high ball today, and that was the last puck of the game. If the ball went to ground, 7 times out of 10 a Clare man came away with it. Our lads want to play nice, fast, skillful hurling. You have to earn the right to do that by winning sh*t ball when it's there to be won. Until we solve that the famine will continue.

I don't buy the defensive frailty angle. Clare had so much possession because we couldn't go toe to toe with them on the dirty 60/40 ball. No defence can survive that onslaught. By rights Clare should have won by 3-4 pts in normal time only they were wasteful in front of goal.

What we need to sort out next year are 1 Defending and our defensive structure in general. 2 Improve on our ability to win the breaking ball. 3 Find someone to win the dirty ball up front as well. 4 Management can also improve tactically.

I think we also need to kick up more of a fuss when we're getting ridden roughshod by the officials as well. We should also bring lads like Michael Mullins, Ben Cunningham and Will Buckley into the panel next year.

From a meath man hardluck lads you lit up the championship this year with your fanfare and exciting games.

I thought all thing's equal a draw was fair. Clare missed a lot of chances and the ref rode cork. But the reality is Clare missed those chances and the ref/umpires missed some crazy calls.

I think next year Limerick will come roaring back and depending on Waterford Munster could be a nightmare just to get out of. Best of luck next year and thanks for the memories.

We're just too effing nice in Cork. That reff had a shocker. Our players should've been in his face letting him know that imo. We're still a bit soft and a bit too nice in Cork. Any other county from the leading contenders, would not have given those Clare forwards the space they got today.

It's a long way back from here. I'm not sure we can get there without some big changes to the makeup of the panel. Numerous management teams now have now have failed to sort the defending problem out. It's been an issue going all the way back to 2013 at the very least.

Cheers mate gaelic football really needs both ourselves and you back at the top table again.

I watched the game back there again and we had chances to win it and dodgy ref decisions didn't help. Cork could have won it all the same. This one hurts more than the 2013 first game.

Jesus mate it'll be a while before i watch that game again if i ever do at all really!

Its a hard watch but I have it done now.

Twat

Few players just didn't turn up on the day. Dalton and Connelly were poor and also don't think Horgan did much bar his frees which in fairness he did very well....I

There's also something lacking in the ability of the sideline to react tactically when things aren't going according to plan.

When the gameplan is working Cork are great as we saw against Limerick who were under massive pressure from the long ball. But when things aren't going well I'm not sure Pat Ryan and sideline know how to react. In the first game against Clare, Cork were 7 points up in the second half, Clare changed things up and Cork didn't adjust and ended up losing.

Today we were 7 points up early in the game. Clare stifled the long ball and we really couldn't find an answer to that, kept plugging away but never fully adjusted. The subs today also were slow to happen and largely ineffective when they did happen.

Agreed.

The modern game is littered with fouls, every since Cody introduced the playing on the edge bullshit the game has become dirtier and dirtier.

Its a tough job being a ref, the amount of fouling that goes on is ridiculous.

Grabbing of players jerseys, grabbing the opponents arm, grabbing the hurley, pushing, shoving, wrapping arms around players.

Its a mans game but all the above are fouls and should result in frees but they dont, it often needs 2 or even 3 of these incidents to happen in a row for a free to be awarded.

What a bizarre comment.