Football Championship 2026 (Mod Note in OP)

Tweaks are always possible at the next congress it's their duty to push for those tweaks first and foremost.

most of that in hurling country though

And they say in Cork that football is just for fellas that can’t hurl….
I think it is funny that their football AI win was a lot more recent than their hurling AI win.

Surely that remains to be seen.

If Kerry were to beat Donegal and then lose to Armagh and a week later face into the likes of a Roscommon or Mayo or Meath etc who would be coming off a win against a Kerry team coming off a loss after playing 2 of the best 3 teams in the country and they lose that, it would be hard to argue that it was of more benefit than getting into the QF.

Again it remains to be seen but I think the R2A losers will be very vulnerable similar to when the provincial losers used to meet a back door qualifier a week later in the old system.

Huge areas of Cork are football dominated. Hurling isn't an excuse.

I think Donegal will beat Kerry anyway. Too many players injured or not match fit. We'd have to be at our best to beat them. We could beat them later on in the summer if we get players back.

I say that as a Kerry man. I think the extra game might stand to us though, before the 1/4s although obviously a potential banana skin also.

When your county's population is over 600,000, I don't think kids from foreign nationals background is an adequate excuse.

If the Cork county board did a review of why Cork aren't winning at hurling or football, I doubt that's what they'd come up with.

Obviously lots of other factors like actual playing numbers, coaching, tradition, culture, facilities etc but Cork have all those factors on top of large population.

So it's not analogous to China or India.

I'm just saying they should be consistently competitive but with cycles like other counties do.

They had a very strong football team in the late 80s/early 90s and also for most of the 2000s, so they're due another cycle of success.

They beat Kerry at u20 and minor this year, so maybe it's coming.

Well if he tackles with a closed fist, he should be sent off.

I think that is nonsense (I know you are passing on an opinion). Refs aren't that into evening up scores between matches and no ref is going to torpedo (or at the very least hamper his career) with a sending off for no reason.

I certainly believe there will be very little tolerance for his trademark punch tackle however and he could find himself sent off even for just the normal punch to the ribs that he does, not to mind head high pucks and that would be a good thing - those punches to the ribs are filthy.

Ye have obviously a solid football team now but your forward play needs a bit of work.

Too predictable and pedestrian.

Maybe new management or bring in a modern coach.

Roscommon have Jason Sherlock and look deadly.

Tackilin a player in the air like that should be a yellow card, it's very dangerous. The player in the air is defenseless.

Game is very slow paced,division 2 stuff