Cork GAA Discussion Thread

Sick of moral victories to be honest.

agreed, we absolutely threw it away tbh, you’ll never have a better chance to beat them.

We had 4 wides in normal time, and 9 in extra time. Brutal really

Probably got stage fright when we could smell victory but if we can play like this again we be hard to beat.

im bit like you. Now in fairness bookies gave us little chance and we lost to decent team.

My issue is can they push on from this. We have played and even beaten kerry the mere once only to be utterly embarrassed down the road.

History has told me not to hold my breath.

We're very comfortable right now against Clare in Ennis with a couple of minutes to go. It looks like Clare didn't throw the league game a few weeks ago, they really were that bad!

Dishing out a comprehensive beating to the all Ireland champions in their own backyard would be a strong statement of intent from us.

Edit: Oh dear spoke too soon!

A test of our character and maturity now Clare have brought our lead down to a point.

Teams are level now unbelievable collapse from us!

I have been saying that with a long time.

I have been saying that for a long time.

Lucky to get a draw. All the skill and physicality needed to win it out but got dragged into needless niggly and off-the-ball crap. Gone from a team that was too soft a few years ago and now not knowing when to rein it in.

Footballers missing the forwards to compete with teams like Kerry consistently. Our level is division 2 and it shows. Good opportunity missed.

Discipline isn't great which is very disappointing. Dragged into off the ball stuff and reacted poorly. Needs to rein that crap in. Other teams will take advantage and wind them up.

Not a hope in hell after today. We are bang average. To throw away a 12 point lead like that is unforgivable. We scored only 9 points in the 2nd half. Clare got 3-11

Pat Ryan needs to sort out the discipline. Very poor today. It's great that we're no longer pushovers but they've gone too far the other way now. The likes of Clare and Limerick will make hay by dragging Cork into battles and we'll end up getting fellas sent off.

Bit like you, but at least it was only minimum damage.

Its huge worry though going forward.

Flashbacks of that 2018 all Ireland semi final against Limerick there. The team is good enough to go all the way but we're prone to these phases where we just go completely out of the game.

Keeping our discipline is possibly another issue but on the flip side of that people like me where saying over the years that Cork teams were too soft as well, but you have to stand up for yourself and show some toughness in a smart and disciplined way.

Outside of Clare, Limerick and possibly Kilkenny the rest of the field is bang average, so i still think there's an all Ireland in this team.