Cork GAA Discussion Thread

Here is the post in question from the PROC.

Nothing happened. It's all lies. Had heard last night from a few clubmates of the Downeys and Brian Hayes it was all bullsh!t.

Then by pure chance my best buddy met the one Cork player he knows personally this morning. Asked him about the rumours and he confirmed its all rubbish. Nothing happened. There was no bust up in the dressing room at half time, no bust up after the game and no bust up in the Burlington. The whole lot of it is lies.

The players could also have just lost their heads when the going got tough in the second half. Perhaps some of them should make less of those tiktok videos and focus more on their hurling skills, and working on their mental toughness and resilience on all Ireland final day.

If there was a dispute between a few players let it boil over there and then. The other 12-13 should have been well able to drive on and play their game. All they had to do was keep the scoreboard ticking over with a 6 point cushion head start. Healy and Barrett were playing well, Fitzgibbon was doing ok, just needed 2-3 more players to come into the game and have good second halves and see it out.

When Cork U-20's won back-to-back All-Ireland's in 2020 and 2021 there were a lot of Cork people posting on here confidently predicting a senior All-Ireland within a few short years. Yet here we are heading into 2026 and still no senior AI.

We actually also won the U-20 AI in 2023 which makes our lack of senior success even more galling. But Tipp won the U-20 AI in 2018 and 2019, beating Cork in the final on both occasions incidentally. Liam Cahill was manager. Cork threw away at least one of those finals btw.

It took until 2025 for that U-20 success to translate to senior for Tipp (six years later). But they also had a good few senior AI winners in the team so they had a good mix of youth and experience. We don't have any AI winners to complement the AI winning U-20's we have in the team. I think this Cork team win an AI but not anymore than one or maybe two.

Exactly, reminds me a bit of the COVID lockdown whatsapp voice notes. I've posted here that a team member rubbished the rumours and I personally know someone who was at the banquet and all was fine. But some won't take the truth on board.

It would be a nice explanation for the 2nd half but it's not true and the truth is more difficult to process. The team had a mental collapse. Simple as.

Believe what you need to bud

Alot of work needed with the Cork hurling panel going forward. The people in charge of Cork GAA won't accept the fact that alot of changes are needed and alot of things must be fixed. The hurling panel must be looked at seriously now and anyone not good enough needs to be moved on and start looking at the three teams of All Ireland U20 winning teams and see can a few good players be brought in. The management needs changing too. I think Ryan might be ok but better background team seriously needed and some one like Kinnerk needed for tactics someone who can read the game and make changes straight away. That dkey Garry Keegan should be immediately sacked and they should pay all out to get Currid on board. That's the most serious change they need. Someone to change the mindset of the players and make them winners. Cork won't do anything like that but they can't expect to win All Irelands if they don't make radical changes. I think the last two All Irelands losses suggests things must change.

I agree, there are at least 5-6 players with brilliant ability on those teams that need to be blooded ASAP.

I could it not have been the case that Cork expected a surge from Tipp. At some stage. But when Tipp tagged on a goal and a few points and shortly after that Cork full back sent off and the penalty followed - Tipp’s tail was really up and at that stage Cork did not know what to do . It was in shock from then to the end. Onc could say that Tipp did not allow Cork to play its game

Cork have gone from serial winners with a great record in finals to serial losers over the last 2 decades, with the last decade particularly bad. Two absolute capitulations in finals ( Limerick & Tipp) plus the two finals against Clare were let slip through your fingers. Other counties are now sensing a soft underbelly in Cork, which will be very difficult to get rid of.

Cork remind me very much of my own county Galway, we had loads of underage and club success, but, couldn't do it at senior level, lost final after final and other teams saw us as a soft touch, we eventually got over the line in 2017, but, what should have been a launch pad for success hasn't materialised, we are now further away than ever to winning an All Ireland, team on the decline and nothing coming through, if Cork don't soon win an All Ireland, ye could go the same way.

I had a look at the panel for the 2021 All Ireland final. Out of the 26 players on the match day program. There are 23 of them players still involved with the Cork team in 2025. Thats simply unbelievable. There are people here then saying that they need huge changes next year. I can safely say there won't be 3 changes to the panel next year I could guarantee it. Cork GAA won't do the best for Cork. They will continue the status quo I'm afraid. Cork has to have a better pool of players than that over 4 years.

definitely not !! it was only last week why i fully understood the concept of cork being dangerous when written off , because no matter how good a team is when the hype train kicks into gear it gets inside lads heads , cork did not preform as normal last week especially in the second half and pressure caused that nothing else

fitz would drive that through the roof, my recommendations would be get on the blower to mike ashley and try and out bid jp for paul kinnerk or the next best alan cunningham in limerick , cunningham is Aarons father that used to play for clare and kinnerk regards him as the guru when asked about where he learned his hurling coaching from , he is a shannon man and we cant get our hands on him even when his son was playing for us ,

all jokes aside its someone like that , that cork need alongside pat ryan , i dont think he should be given the road either because he has pulled cork hurling up from the gutter the last few years he need somebody with him though

Had to drive a bit around Dublin earlier today and now thinking back to the optimism going up to the stadium this time last week.

Was watching back the highlights and, despite not playing great, still had plenty of moments in the first half to suggest the team could kick on in the second half.

Hard to not feel apathetic about it for now after how it unfolded but we’ll be back at some stage I’m sure.