Cork GAA Discussion Thread

Pre 97 if Limerick or Clare/Waterford/Tipp caught a good Cork in the Munster quarter/semi there would have been no second chance. The old Cork teams you are mentioning are from a very small window - I would say 2003 - 2006. Again a very small time frame in the past 30 years.

Galway could beat us yep. They were phenomenal against Cork in the first half of the league. They switched off in the second half and I wonder if there was an element of "keeping powder dry" about it. I know league isn't championship but still, they are very capable.

Offaly first though, and you'd have to wonder if BoC can get the focus right for that. Offaly are young but they're good. Potential ambush.

But why would you have heard anything from Limerick about Tipp? Tipp beat Cork, it's the Cork fans that would be sore. What you're saying isn't being objective, you're a Tipp fan sensitive to unfair criticism and you're seeing some sore losers complaining about being beaten.

A shame Pat Ryan moved on but we'll see now what BoC brings. I liked all his talk during the league of essentially being responsible for your own results. I'm not a fan of him discussing specific mad ref decisions, particularly when there were so many mad ref decisions on-show yesterday!

Ankle injury

Also, wind was really heavy, some puckouts weren't getting to the half way line. It was a very streetwise foul in terms of where it was committed, it effectively guaranteed no score. Lucky to not get the red card though - classic James Owens stuff there in fairness :D

It’s the unjustified arrogance and cockiness. 

It’s the level of complacency consistently displayed by many of the Cork fans. 

Patrick Horgan coming out at the start of 2024 declaring "We have two players for every position. It’s perfect"

Anthony Nash at the start of 2025 stating that he can see no other team other than Cork and Limerick coming close to the All-Ireland final. 

Do you watch the dire tripe that supposed Cork journalists such as Dan Casey, come out with ? 

Alan Connolly "We want to win the league. We want to win Munster. We want to win the All-Ireland. And that’s what we are going to do!"

Alan Connolly trying to score a goal from a 21-yard free when 15 points up against Clare at the end of the game. 

You may say that all counties act the same or think the same. No other county acts like that. If other counties think like that, they aren't so disrespectful to say it nationally. They keep it to themselves.

The booing and vitriol coming from Cork fans. Yesterday Donal Og even referenced the many Cork fans who, in his words, "know nothing about hurling". 

If other counties dislike Cork, it’s not irrational, there is a reason for it.

In the middle of a heated conversation in the bar yesterday during the match, a Cork supporter and a Limerick supporter decided to relax tensions with a bit of comedy

"why isn't that a free?"

"because there was no foul committed"

"yeah but this ref doesn't care, he just hands them out like sweets on Halloween"

"hmm fair point"

We're having a ball living rent-free in your brain

Yep you're not wrong. We even had years of "split Dublin in two"!

Saturday June 20

Clare v Dublin, FBD Semple Stadium, 7pm, RTE

Sunday June 21

Cork v Offaly, FBD Semple Stadium, 3.30, RTE

Some of your own fans yesterday were attacking the stewards to get onto the pitch. We had grown men in their 40's giving the middle finger to the Cork supporters on the terrace as well. So let's not frame this as a Cork only problem. I agree that Galway could be a tricky game, but i also think there's a big game in Clare presuming they do beat Dublin.

As i've told the likes of yourself on many occasions that Millwall chant applies to us. Nobody likes us we don't care.😁

Donal og cusack is one good reason not to like cork

if you’re into French sayings you could look up Être descendu de son piédestal or un donneur de leçons and ye wonder why the country hates ye

It's only a small minority of Limerick fans now. There's an element of the Limerick support who seem to prefer trying to enrage Cork supporters than enjoy their teams success, but there's people like that amongst the Cork support as well. Again congrats on the win yesterday, and hopefully we might see you again in July and hopefully reverse the result.

My post was aimed at the people who like to come on here with their rage bait posts trying to provoke Cork fans into anger. The last thing i would do is go on the Limerick thread or any other counties thread for that matter, and go on some self righteous and sanctimonious spiel attacking that counties supporters.

Tipperary and Kilkenny for me are still our ultimate rivals at the end of the day, but Limerick are our biggest modern-day rivals. It's a bit like the great Cork and Waterford rivalry in the 2000's, although so far Cork are the Waterford in this dynamic unfortunately!

It'll be interesting to see how many Cork fans travel to Thurles. I would have expected train tickets to vanish straight away but that's not the case. Going up is busy Sun morning (maybe due to concerts in Cork) but plenty availability post match