Your probably right, but Aisake did enough against Tipp to keep us interested. I have my doubts about his overall ability, but we don’t have too many big hurlers.
Aisake is getting better game to game though - he couldn’t catch a ball against Offaly, and yet was catching everything off Maher and Hogan. His big problem is his striking, he swings too wide and tried to hit the ball too hard, but thats something that technically DW should be able to solve with a little work.
The argument about Cussen and Aisake is that they are different players with different attributes that are suited to different positions - Cussen is obviously the superior hurler.
He hasn’t played a lot on the 40 yet, but I thought he did as well as one could expect on Sunday. He was the only puck-out option, so he was surrounded by three to four tipp players on every puck-out. He wasn’t winning clean ball, but neither was his man - it was all breaking off him to a Tipp midfield that was dominant (hence why McLoughlin was taken off rather then Aisake, and hence why we began to get back on top once Maher and McLoughlin were off the pitch).
Your right about McLoughlin and Maher, Maher was a massive loss to Tipp. My point isn’t about balls that break off Aisake or anything, his problem is when ha actually wins the thing, he’s getting bottle up out on the 40, whereas at full he was winning it and in more space, now maybe that was down to Tipp giving him too much, whereas at half forward he has midfielders to deal with as well.
Anyway, i’m willing to give Aisake the whole year, as you say if he can iron out a few small things he could be very effective. Plus winning anything this year is a bonus, and i can see DW only getting truly ruthless next year.
But i still put money on Cork to win the double. 
It’s a crying shame when Cork have to try and convert footballers / AFL players into hurlers
Bullshit. :mad:
The Galway county board are complaining again
Aisake was a hurler before anything else, AFL player then. He rarely played football, only turning out for championship for Na Piarsaigh.
But of course i know your running scarred.
So he failed at the hurling, failed at the AFL and is failing at the hurling again? :o
He togged out for Cork footballers last year also and is not involved with them this year so you could also say…
I was a hurler before anything else. Doesn’t mean I’m good enough to play for Kilkenny (or Mayo, or Leitrim, or Fermanagh or even Cork)
You’d have a fair crack at the fermanagh team fran
Stop it, you’re embarrassing me now
I’ve just seen that the League Hurling Finals are fixed for Sunday evening so they won’t clash with a Munster Rugby Club match. This is simply ridiculous.
Somebody didn’t really think that one through in fairness, asking people to travel to Thurles for a 7pm throw-in on a bank holiday weekend to avoid clashing with a match that’s being played in France. I’d rather it was played in an empty stadium at 3.30 to be honest.
I was hoping our game would be on at 2pm and that I’d be back in a beer garden in sun-drenched Wexford by 5.30pm.
Agreed, ridiculous decision. Even playing it on the Bank Hol Monday would be better than that.
Gough: Dubs will show no mercy to Limerick
By Ruaidhri O’Connor
Thursday April 15 2010
There’s been a whiff of summer in the air this week, the jackets have been cast away, ice cream sales are on the up and the Dublin hurlers are looking to capitalise on the early signs by producing a championship style display on Sunday.
Despite testing Kilkenny, Cork and Galway in recent weeks, and beating Tipperary, the Dubs could still be relegated if they lose to Limerick at Parnell Park. Anthony Daly’s second season has not begun as successfully as the first and disappointing defeats to Waterford and Offaly have left them fighting for their Divison 1 lives.
They have dual motivation this weekend according to corner-back Oisin Gough, who says the panel are gunning for revenge after losing to the Treatymen in last season’s All-Ireland quarter-final. And he warned Justin McCarthy’s strugglers that Dublin will show no mercy on their visit to the capital.
“The Limerick game will be treated like a championship game,” he said, speaking at a fundraiser for Alan Kerins’ African Projects.
"It will be 100pc, straight from the go. We’re not looking to go easy on Limerick, they beat us in last year’s All-Ireland quarter-final, so hopefully we can get out and do the business. We felt we left that behind us, that was a big opportunity missed. Limerick were very good, they came out in the last few minutes and were excellent.
“Maybe we were lacking a bit of experience, but hopefully we have it now and can drive on.”
The Cuala defender has been enjoying some fine form in a backline that has coped well with some illustrious names in recent weeks.
But they are struggling to convert chances up front which has left them in a win or bust situation come Sunday afternoon. And Gough admits the season has left last year’s Leinster finalists vexed.
“It’s a little bit frustrating,” he admitted. "We feel like we’re playing well, but not getting any breaks. A little bit of luck, maybe. We’re hurling well, we’re training well and the intensity is there in the matches, bar maybe the Offaly or Waterford games.
"Every other team, we’ve put it up to them, but we are just missing that last little bit. Hopefully it will come soon.
"He’s (Daly) driving us on in training, he wants the intensity and the intensity’s there. He feels that it’s going to come. It will come good, sooner or later. There’s talk about moral victories, but we would much rather be winning these games. But we take the positives out, we are driving these teams to the last few minutes and sometimes it’s just a bit of luck and a few balls here and there.
“Kilkenny scored 2-21, when we got 0-23 and it was the two goals that made the difference. The goal this season would be to get back to the Leinster final, push on and try and win it. After that who knows.”
- Ruaidhri O’Connor
Irish Independent
Cheeky cunt.
That would be great alright…if Cork hadn’t a charity match organized against Waterford for that day.
Could ye not just send along those lads that stepped in for ye before when the lads wouldnt play?