Cork GAA Discussion Thread

2 goals after HT, Galway down to 14. 3-14 to 1-13 after 39 min.

Really nice win there. We are really going in the right direction. The work rate from everyone is really noticeable and Dalton was phenomenal. Lehane had a quiet first half but came alive in the second. Lot of new players given game time which is great. The pieces really seem to be coming together. To go to Galway and perform so well without a good few main players is very pleasing.

Lot to work on as well though. A fair few bad wides and sloppy goals at the end given away although we stepped our foot off the gas. Understandable as a lot of work was put in already.

Last 2 games have been really good and great to see us scoring goals again and looking threatening in that department all the time.

Didn’t see it but that’s a great result up in Galway.

Two from Two is great start.

Great win. Delighted I travelled up now. Fantastic to see such a good crowd up for it 👏

dalton brings a new dimension of physicality that the cork forwards need cork always have lovely hurlers but sometimes lack that bit of steel , shane barrett looks really tough too , its a new look for cork for sure , it was probably the difference between the sides last june , horgan aside

really good game for this time of year

Any sign of a link to watch this back on TG4? I've had a look on the app and player website but can't seem to locate it. Cheers!

Question for people here, do we have a problem at goalkeeper? Lots of criticism of Collins yesterday. Puckouts left a lot to be desired

looks fairly obvious that whenever Limericks golden era comes to an end.. Cork and Tipp will dominate hurling for quite a few years.... KK look shocking poor.. Waterford will be the usual... great performances followed by a meltdown.. Galway must be the most frustrating team to be a manager of.. plenty of skill and talent but to me they not to bothered whether they win or not... Clare much the same..

You're from Galway aren't you? No other hurling county has flattered to deceive more than Galway over the years imo. I don't mean to sound disrespectful here, but between hurling and camogie you've been in forty five all Ireland senior finals and only won nine of them.

Of course those stats do paint a false picture, because back in the day Galway used only have to win the one game to reach an all Ireland final! Joe Cooney and Joe Canning would be two of my favourite non Cork players as well.

Shefflin has a vast amount of players available to him you say, but sure so does Pat Ryan, John Kiely, Davy Fitz and other managers as well. What's your point there exactly?

My point is that it is a lazy trope to say these days that Galway are not bothered about winning or 'you never know which Galway is going to turn up' etc. These are arguments you could apply to any non-successful (i.e. not Limerick) county in the past 7-8 years at least. Any match I've ever been at they'll always gone out to win and they have been one of the most consistent teams over the past number of seasons, all of their final championship defeats have been narrow ones and have been beaten by small margins by all-conquering Limerick 3 times in the past 5 years.

As a still-relatively new manager, Shefflin must do his own reckoning about the type and amount of players available to him and how best to fit them into a line-out. More than any other Galway manager in recent times, thanks in the main to a lot of Minor successes, he has a very good pool of similarly-talented players to call upon currently and finding the right blend between them all is his challenge. This can lead to performance-blips from game to game when different teams are selected, it's part of the team and management progression.

The Cork Senior Football Team to play Dublin in the Allianz Football League Division 2 Round 3 has been announced

1. Micheál Aodh Martin (Nemo Rangers)
2. Maurice Shanley (Clonakilty)
3. Daniel O’Mahony (Knocknagree)
4. Tommy Walsh (Kanturk)
5. Luke Fahy (Ballincollig)
6. Rory Maguire (Castlehaven)
7. Matty Taylor (Mallow)
8. Colm O’Callaghan (Éire Óg)
9. Ian Maguire (St Finbarr’s)
10. Eoghan McSweeney (Knocknagree)
11. Sean Powter (Douglas)
12. Brian O’Driscoll (Tadhg MacCarthaigh)
13. Brian Hurley (Castlehaven) Captain
14. Chris Óg Jones (Uibh Laoire)
15. Steven Sherlock (St Finbarr’s)
16. Chris Kelly (Éire Óg)
17. Kevin O’Donovan (Nemo Rangers)
18. Sean Meehan (Kiskeam)
19. Cian Kiely (Ballincollig)
20. Shane Merritt (Mallow)
21. Killian O’Hanlon (Kilshannig)
22. John O’Rourke (Carbery Rangers)
23. Ruairí Deane (Bantry Blues)
24. Conor Corbett (Clyda Rovers)
25. Fionn Herlihy (Dohenys)
26. Mark Cronin (Nemo Rangers)

So close at the end from Hurley.

Can someone explain to me how a minor jersey pull is a yellow card and some tackles that border on assault are not?

thats what i have been saying about this side , excellent attitude today , yes there are certain limitations to the side but that was an excellent performance and a really good game

jokes aside i would love to bottle the confidences in cork hurling and football and bring it up here , we threw away a 5 point lead against kildare today because we were afraid to take them on , last week a comment emerged on here that in hurling ourselves and galway have serious all ireland potential but only ever tap into it one in a blue moon , its 100% accurate , send up a bottle of fresh air next week and see if it dose something for our lads against dublin saturday night , they might need it 😁

And yes that was the last time we really had that attitude about our selves on the field , its amazing how expectations change from one county to the next , even looking at limerick their supporters still look nervous despite their embarrassment of riches , they would never do up in tyrone!!

and before you say anything we do have a fair swagger off the field but that wins nothing , kilkenny with yer 4 all irelands ye have a fine habit of calling us 😏😁

The Cork Senior Hurling team to play Westmeath in Division 1 Group A Round 3 of the Allianz Hurling League has been announced

1. Patrick Collins (Ballinhassig)
2. Sean O’Leary Hayes (Midleton)
3. Niall O’Leary (Castlelyons) Captain
4. Eoin Roche (Bride Rovers)
5. Cormac O’Brien (Newtownshandrum)
6. Ger Millerick (Fr O’Neills)
7. Daire O’Leary (Watergrasshill)
8. Sam Quirke (Midleton)
9. Ethan Twomey (St Finbarr’s)
10. Ben Cunningham (St Finbarr’s)
11. Luke Meade (Newcestown)
12. Conor Cahalane (St Finbarr’s)
13. Shane Kingston (Douglas)
14. Brian Hayes (St Finbarrs)
15. Shane Barrett (Blarney)
16. Gavin Connolly (Blackrock)
17. Eoin Downey (Glen Rovers)
18. Cathal Cormack (Blackrock)
19. Tommy O’Connell (Midleton)
20. Daire Connery (Na Piarsaigh)
21. Brian Roche (Bride Rovers)
22. Darragh Flynn (Ballygiblin)
23. Declan Dalton (Fr O’Neills)
24. Colin Walsh (Kanturk)
25. Padraig Power (Blarney)
26. Cormac Beausang (Midleton)

He has a slight injury so he is being rested.

Patrick Horgan started against Limerick, scoring four points from play, but he was ruled out for the trip to Salthill and manager Pat Ryan won’t risk the Glen Rovers man this time around, either.

“Patrick has a chest injury,” he says. “He got a bang against Limerick. He saw out the match but it’s been sore, it’s just a slow thing.

He’s doing hurling and running and all that side but it’s just the contact, we want to make sure that he’s okay.

“It’s nothing too serious, he’d be able to play if it was a championship match but we’ll wait until he’s 100 percent.”

A controversy is developing in Camogie as they have scheduled an All Stars trip to Canada one week before the start of the Championship. The 7 Cork players have decided to boycott the trip. The timing of the trip is definitely treating the players shabbily.

Several players and ex players have tweeted about it

Fair dues to Davy Fitzgerald also giving his support

The Camogie Association and LGFA seem to be constantly self sabotaging from an administrative point of view.