Even a draw would do us but here we are fighting for our lives against Waterford. No offence to the Deise men but Limerick will be licking their lips with anticipation at the thought of playing us again if we get there.
Without some sort of miracle it'll be another hiding in Limerick in 2 weeks time.
We're as good as home now thankfully.
All over Cork 2 25 Waterford 1 22 i'm glad to have got the win, but that performance really wouldn't cut the mustard against Limerick.
Well at least we have a Munster final to look forward to now. Is it definitely going to be up in the Gaelic Grounds?
Limerick will be favourites but i think there's a huge performance in us, and that going in as underdogs will be no harm at all.
Commiserations to Waterford they have been having an awful miserable time with this round robin format!
Yes it's in Limerick.
We don't have a hope in hell against Limerick. They will blow us apart I think again but hope I'm wrong. A very flat performance by Cork today.
Didn't expect fireworks.
A win is a win.
We'll take it.
Next game is a free throw.
Knock Out then.
Lots of improvement to be done for the knock out games.
Some amount of bitterness on the Waterford thread, with one poster hoping Limerick hammer us again. Why don't they just worry about getting out of munster for once. There a pity and a bitter bunch I must say.
Let's be honest it's going to be damage limitation in the Munster final. I'd be happy with a narrow one or two point defeat because that would maybe put a seed of doubt in Limerick's mind that the round-robin win over us was just a bad day at the office and that they are not as far ahead of us as they thought. But another heavy defeat would indicate we have learnt nothing and would also badly damage the morale of the Cork players. Could happen however.
A lot of them are grand but you'll always have that one or two. They've had plenty of chances to win the all Ireland over the years but they just couldn't seal the deal in the end. If they couldn't win an all Ireland when they had the likes of Tony Browne, Ken McGrath, Paul Flynn, Dan Shanahan and John Mullane playing for them, then it's hard to ever see them doing it in the short to medium term future at least.
The fact that it's in the Gaelic grounds will make the task hard. They have a free shot at them now. Hopefully they are competitive next day out.
I'd be more than happy to win the all Ireland without playing Limerick in Croke Park.
Whatever team wins the AI this year will have to beat Limerick in Croke Park. Clare won it last year without having to do that but that was only because we got them out of the way for them.
Clare benefitted from an awful lot of 50/50 refereeing decisions on the day as well!
That's water under the bridge now.
Not quite. Couldn't a team beat Limerick in the semi but lose the final?
I just want us be competitive with limerick in 2 weeks. I don't expect us win it. I just hope we give them good game to give us bit of hope.
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I say the next game be alot closer but just cant see enough to suggest Cork are going to win it. The way people are talking today, Limerick are going to destroy us. Will we bother fulfilling the fixture and hand the cup to Limerick?
Well we learnt something today that I wasn't expecting. The defeat to Limerick was hugely damaging to the teams confidence!! The tension was running deep even in the stands. It was like a different team to the one that trashed Tipperary.
We lacked guile again today was distinctly flat at times. Lots of work needed before this team heads to Limerick. Right now they are a country mile off Limerick!
A so called neutral observer on the Waterford thread said that we should be thanking the reff! What rubbish i would argue that Cork were in second gear for most of the match, but we were still good enough to get the win in spite of that. We have lots to work on ahead of the Munster final, but we have an opportunity now to make amends for last weeks fiasco!
anyone else think Brian hayes is the head off that guy in Europhia?
Think we are underestimating Waterford a good bit here. Limerick at full strength beat them by 6 points too albeit in Waterford. It was always going to be a bit nervy as knockout and we recovered well from 5 1 down early on. Yes we'll certainly need a further improvement for Limerick to be competitive.
Why is the Munster Final on a Saturday evening ?
It looks like its so RTE can show the Joe McDonagh Cup final on Sunday. Disgraceful.
The GAA rotates the Munster and Leinster Finals each year, one on Saturday evening, the other on Sunday, to give both provinces a fair chance at a prime slot and ensure balanced exposure. Nothing to do with the McDonagh Cup. Munster turn to be held on Sat evening
Pretty sure this is the first time it's been on a Saturday?
Only decided that it was going to be this way after last year's fixtures. Same with All Ireland semis. Trial period for 2 years
so did Cork yesterday, and some of them weren’t even 50/50
I was at a Cork Waterford munster final on a Saturday evening in Thurles a few years back but that was a replay.
Last year was the first year. It was always going to be the case that it passed unnoticed until it was Munster's turn for Saturday.
