Cork GAA Discussion Thread

One last word for the lord mayor of Galway have a look at that!😀 Of course it was just pre match banter by the late John Mulholland, but we barely beat Antrim and Galway trashed Kilkenny in their semi final. The Galway crowd probably thought it was just a case of showing up to collect the cup.🤣 In fairness Galway proved what a fine team they were afterwards. They would have won the three in a row in 1989 if it wasn't for Tony Keady getting suspended.

Here's the football team named for the Meath game later on.

Best of luck to both the hurlers and footballers this weekend. Up Cork!

Great too see Larry Tompkins in it too

Larry trained me for 2 years in 94/95.

When I was going to NY for the summer in 96 I gave him a call; gave me a contact who put me up and helped with work. We've been good friends since and through him I'd occasionally meet Larry.

Great character about as intense as it gets when it comes to football.

When I played in 96 in NY I played with another Castlehaven; wild beast of a man but some footballer called Dave Reagan. Beer and women kept him from the great Cork team, Larry had huge regard for him but couldn't understand his wiring. Football was 1,2 & 3 with Larry.

He's done some great podcasts over the years, one in particular about when he travelled home with the Donegal club and bet all but one of the county teams they played.

Great to see him smiling, he'd love be in amongst GAA crew like that.

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Disastrous result. Absolutely terrible

We really have been going around in circles as a football county in the years post 2012. We get the odd decent championship win but we never seem to build on it.

As i've stated many times i would be hugely in favour of an outside manager when John Cleary goes. Larry Tompkins was from Kildare but Larry is an honorary Cork man at this stage! We badly need some outside ideas. I hated him as a player but someone like Ger Brennan would be great as Cork manager.

I thought we were making progress at the end of 2023 after back to back last eight appearances, but we've gone backwards since sadly. John Cleary should've got the job about a decade ago but yes change is needed unless the team can turn this situation around.