Cork GAA Discussion Thread

Cork 4th on the roll of honour in Football due to 7 wins and 16 times as runner up. Tipp have 4 wins and Mayo 3!

I am of a similar age to you. I can't remember 1990. I can remember 1992 losing to Kilkenny and 1993 losing to Derry in the Football. I remember 1999 very well and 2024 and 2005. I was in Dublin in 2005 and walking out of the game afterwards taking it for granted that these days would happen every few years. If you told me that day that Cork wouldnt win an All Ireland again for 20+ years in hurling I would have thought you were on something. Unbelievable to think that amount of time has passed and we have lost 4 All Irelands in the process. I'm nervous about Sunday too. I know Cork are good enough but they need to perform to their finest and not be off par. We have been off par in 2006 2013, 2021 and 2024. Hopefully they can get over the line this time around and end that long famine.

I find the build up fascinating this year. Apart from the novelty of a Cork Tipp final the expectations appear to differ. I know some Tipp supporters who won't be there because they had their holidays booked for this time which shows how confident they were about this year. I'm not sure which is the best way to feel going into the match, hapy to have made it or feeling nothing but a win will do. While there will be disappointment for whichever side loses I feel Cork may feel it worse but having said that I see little between the sides and hope all players will be satisfied with their performance and may the best team win.

I don't think we will be home and hosed with 5 mins. to go this time. If we do win it it will be like the AI semi v Limerick last year. Hanging on to a one or two point lead for dear life while Tipp throw the kitchen sink at us.

That would be a nice feeling it we were a good few up with mins to go but very unlikely that be the case.

All similar vintage

I remember Dad going to 1992 and 1993 finals

99 was my first hurling final

Delighted getting soaked up the hill with paper hat dye running

2003 we should have won

Put things right after losing Munster in 2004

Always felt we would win 2005

2006 not prepared at all for long grass and swarm tackling

Should have stole 2013 first day out

Replay bloody SOD

2018 still a sore one in my house with wife being Limerick

2021 even worse

We really should have won last year

Tony Kelly always has one good game a year

Unfortunately it's usually against us

Hopefully lads will have learnt from last year and esp the 2018 under 21 final loss

We had better hurlers but were outworked by a Liam Cahill team

Can't allow that to happen on Sunday

@KrustyUCC There was that maybe 90 seconds in the 2013 final when it was ours and it hadn’t really looked like it for any of the 70 mins. Clare goalie getting chased over the sideline with our sideline well in their half. I don’t debate the additional 20-30 seconds, it was what it was but we should have won it from that situation. That corner back just peeling off into free space still hurts.

I said we should have stole it and it would have been a steal

Bit more cuteness with line ball at end

Play it into corner

Foul the ball

Waste time

Instead Moylan went for glory and put it wide

Still if we were good enough we would have won the puck out

Yes still hurts

Even more so as I was going out with a Clare girl at the time

Yes that's it cuteness

I was at 2022 final and Limerick wasted about 2 mins with ball in corner after a line ball

I spoke about how we need our forwards to fire but the backs need to be on top of their game as well. We can't afford to concede any sloppy goals which i felt we did in last year's final.

I've spoken myself at times about the history of Cork hurling, but Tipperary have a storied history themselves although in the modern game history is not as big a factor as it once was imo. It's all about being good enough on the day. If this Cork team strikes form they'll be hard to beat. It's time for a new generation of Cork hurlers to write themselves into history this Sunday. Up Cork!🔴⚪

I'm not into any of that premonition or psychic stuff but as we approach Sunday I'm getting that same strange feeling of confidence that I got when we were facing Kilkenny in 2010! Strange isn't it.

Good nice to be confident going into the game.

Finals rearly follow the script. Nobody in Cork especially the proper supporters are taking Tipp for granted. We know what they can do. We are very cautious of them to be honest.

In a way there's just as much pressure on Tipp as there is Cork to an extent. This is the one Cork and Tipp game that none of us wants to lose!