Cork GAA Discussion Thread

We need to finish them early and make sure they are not with us or ahead with 5 mins to go or we could be in trouble. The few weeks layoff is what I'm worried about. We won't have a game for 3-4 weeks. That won't help matters.

I totally agree. The layoff is the biggest worry. The minor team got caught by Clare as they came out of the blocks hungry while we took an age to get going. You would hope the seniors have more exprience to not let it happen!

An early goal or 2 would really see us settle. I can see us getting goals against Dublin as Limerick had one shot saved that should have been a goal and really another chance that should have been a black card

Surely experience of 2024 would also be a deciding factor if we beat Dublin and get to a final.

It's easy for them to make excuses. You have to be good enough in the business end of the championship and every game you play or you risk getting defeated. No All Ireland is easily won. I much prefer to play Dublin than Tipp to be fair

Be very hard for dublin to repeat that display in 2 weeks. They were like men inspired after the red card. Conor Burke and currie had dream days. But cork will be a completely different challenge to limerick. Cork have legs all over and dublin have conceded a lot of goals this year

What gives you that impression? We threw it away against Clare - Whatever that sorry excuse of a Limerick game was - Wasn't tested due to the red against Tipp - Beat a Waterford team that isn't any good - Won a Munster final on penalty's - Now can Cork win it yes they can but saying we are the standout left is way wide of the mark imo

No we don't have that reputaton.

About the "wasn't tested due to red card" up above, Cork made it that way.This is what I have been saying since we beat Tipp and is magnified by yesterday. When you have an advantage, you kill the game off quickly or else the other team gets momentumand starts to believe in an upset. In the Tipp game, we got our first goal after 5 mins, then second at 12 min and third at 16 mins. So its game over. Yesterday Limerick didn't do any of that and it would have been one team you would bet your house on it that they would kill them off. I was worried in the Tipp game that this would happen to us, where the crowd get jittery and we choke and lose. But we didn't. It is easy to start thinking about the next day and having no injuries. Of course winning with a man advantage is what should be happening but as we saw it can easily have an opposite effect.

We are in a good place. 2 games to win an All Ireland. League and Munster Championship in back pocket. Injuries hopefully healing or healed up. An unbelievable team of rivals knocked out. No one will take Dublin lightly as we saw the game so they are capable of great things. But so are we. We have a really strong bench which is vital. A lot of goal threats and Dublin have conceded a fair bit. The main thing is to focus on ourselves and our own game and make sure we perform on the day. Our speed and pace will be key.

I believe this years all Ireland will go to whoever wins on July 6th.

Your beloved Tipp had the reputation of being chokers to Kilkenny from 2009-2014 and really only beat Kilkenny in 2016 when half their team had retired. Ye beat Kilkenny in 2019 due to an unfair sending off. Ye are also the masters of winning one in a rows and never following it up. Fickle as fcuk.

People forget that we have actually one won two games in the championship so far (Tipp and Waterford). Technically we didn't "win" the Munster final.That doesn't mean we can't win the All-Ireland though of course.

No it doesn't, It also shouldn't mean that it's ours to lose based on the championship games so far where we haven't truly given an exceptional performance to warrant our favourites tag...