Cork GAA Discussion Thread

Ladies football, Donegal 2-6 Cork 0-8 FT

Camogie, Cork 0-10 Kilkenny 0-3 HT. live on the Camogie Associations facebook https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCamogieAssociation/videos/707546443322688/

The White Feather wrote: »

I know there won't be any games for a good while but just in case anyone didn't know, Cork footballer Ruairi Deane had to have surgery on his hamstring in London. He is supposed to have got the injury in training.

He is meant to be out for at least 4 months so best wishes to him in his recovery.

Might be a good time to do it, mightn’t miss a game at this rate. Hope the surgery and recovery goes well

First round games off

https://gaacork.ie/2020/03/18/cork-gaa-statement-18-03-2020/

Not strictly GAA related but I think it's brilliant to see the use of the Páirc as test centre

1000 test a day will be great to help our local health and the country

Great operation down there

I have never seen an AI final where so many of the losing team were man of the match contenders. Very entertaining game though.

Just wondering has there ever been a definitive all-time Cork team ever compiled, like other counties picking Team of the Millenium etc? Can't find one anywhere and was just curious how a Cork one would compare to the other top teams.

Assuming Ring, Lynch, JBM, Cummins and Cunnigham would all be guaranteed inclusions, who else would be nailed-on? Gerald McCarthy, John Fenton, Brian Corcoran, Sean Og and John and Patrick Horgan? Tony O'Sullivan had a great career at no.12. The Rock and O'Connor twins, along with Joe Deane, would all make the team in my lifetime (90s onwards), but how about an all-time XV?

Need something to get through this lockdown

Has anyone else here read the book The Double by Adrian Russell

It is well worth the read and I have only got around to reading it now in Lockdown! Obviously is about when Cork did the Double. I reviewed it here in my log in case you want to know more.

Having watched both Double games from 1990 I could not believe how good Michael Slocum was in the final. Fahy got Motm for few super points and dont like see him denied but Slocum never gets praise for his performance. He won everything.

Cork v Waterford in the 2004 Munster final on TG4 tomorrow at 2

Galway were a fine team.They were robbed of the three in a row in 1989, but that win in 1990 was well deserved.A great game of hurling, and sure the fact that Cork won, makes it even better.:D Sadly some of that fight and character, has been well absent, in the more modern incarnations of the Cork hurling team.

I was watching that 2018 all Ireland semi final, and the manner in which we blew that game was a disgrace.That free that Limerick got at the end, to nudge them in front in normal time (before we equalized to bring the game to extra time), was pretty soft tbh.But that's the way it goes.

Since the drawn 2013 all Ireland final, we have lost 5 successive championship games in Croke Park.But sure hopefully we will make it out of this crisis, with all our friends and family still alive, and have many more great days in Thurles Killarney The Pairc and Croke Park etc.Hopefully there will be many more all Irelands, for us to celebrate in the coming years.

zetecescort wrote: »

Cork v Waterford in the 2004 Munster final on TG4 tomorrow at 2

It along with a good load of games are on the gaa official YouTube channel in full.

zetecescort wrote: »

Last years minor football final on TG4 tomorrow at 8

Great stuff. Didn’t really play well over 70 minutes but blew Galway away in extra time.

Was a lovely man. Was proud clubman too. Was geniune person which why he was popular. No fakeness. A true gent.

I think someone should remind this fella, that Cork have thirty all Irelands while Clare just have the four.:D The 1999 Munster final, 2005 all Ireland semi final, and 2013 all Ireland semi final.It was Cork who finished off that great Clare team in 1999, and we were also responsible for two of Anthony Dalys most traumatic defeats as a manager.So i suppose the mans bitterness is understandable.As Tomas Mulcahy said, Teddy McCarthy did in two weeks, what it took Clare nearly 100 years to do.;) For a crowd who haven't even won five all Irelands, they do have notions in Clare.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/anthony-daly-we-look-at-cork-differently-now--theyre-no-longer-the-feared-machine-they-once-were-998728.html

He is right. Cork have lost so much of that respect and fear. To be fair even Kilkenny and Tipp don’t have it like they used to either, but Cork have went further down that mountain than other big two.