Cork GAA Discussion Thread

Bring on Mayo and it's fair to say that since they knocked us out of the championship in 2011, they've pretty much had the upper hand against us. Both teams won't fear each other but c'mon Cork, hopefully we'll be cheering on both Cork teams in a semi final for this first time since 2012.

Doing a similar thing with my 74 year old father, I find parking at Maynooth train station and getting the train to Drumcondra is the best way to cut down walking and avoid some of the traffic on the way home. That's what we will be doing anyway

Does that rail line tend to be very busy on match days? Never got the train to Drumcondra for a match but I'm considering it as will already be in Dublin on Saturday - stopping so close to the ground I assume it must be jammed?

fierce easy to get tickets for the semi final thank god, all sorted

mayo man here, not doing a “yerra” on it but unless ye do a Jekyll and Hyde I think Cork will win pulling up.

Here’s why:

Kevin Walsh, he’s had Mayos number for a long time through different teams and managers, even with Sligo he somehow always knew how to put it up to Mayo

The one week turnaround is a disadvantage for the round 3 teams. 2 weeks is the perfect time between championship matches. More training sessions, more rest. Mayo will just be recovering this week with probably only one training session.

Mayo’s midfield is not settled and just not very good. Different players every week.

Defence and defensive system is still figuring itself out. Paddy Tally was the go to guy for a lot of teams in the past as defensive coach but it’s possible he just doesn’t know how to be effective in this new game, much like JimMcGuinness

By comparison Cork have a settled midfield who are good enough and forwards who can take advantage

The main issue as I see it is that Mayo are reliant on Ryan O'Donoghue and Kobe Mc. Find a way to take those two out of the game and everything else is very ordinary. We don't have confident midfielders who will take the game on. Whatever type of system we play allows teams at least 5 or 6 good goal chances every game. We are teeing ourselves up for an awful mauling of goals if some team actually punishes us. If Jordan Flynn and Jack Carney land a 2 pointer each in the first 5 minutes it can inspire them to have great games. However, they are confidence players, and if they miss, they go into their shells and the game tends to pass them by.

Anyway, that's a lot of negativity.

Mayo to win by 4 😊

I'll go back to by own forum.

It can be but I've used it many times before and it's preferable to trying to drive into the city and trying to get parking.

Team is named for tomorrow, full strength. No excuses if we cant get the job done now.

Kicking the game away and we look vulnerable at the back. But we're clearing them out on their kickout, if that continues we have a chance.

Not only did they play badly but they played completely differently to the last two games. I have no idea why they were so slow to shoot and waiting until they were under immense pressure before firing off a poor wide.

They kept giving up real scoring chances only to fire a pass into someone under pressure. Disastrous