I think you are badly trying to get away from the fact that when it comes to the best 8 teams in the country, Ulster once again looks like it will have the biggest proportion.
4 in 2013
3 in 2014
and on course for 4 in 2015
It’s also noteworthy that any of the Ulster counties are capable of making that breakthrough. 5 different quarter finalists in three years tells you all you need to know. In the past three seasons you have the same two counties progressing to the quarter final stage from each province, although none of the second teams have really been able to do it year on year. Ulster football once again leads the way in 2015.
I expected Cork to give a performance in their first game against Kerry given all the incentives they had with criticism going their way but even though they deserved to beat Kerry, who were below par, they played to a level that was above their norm and against a side who were under par and probably saving themselves to peak a month later and they still didn’t win. They were very poor in the second half of the replay and shocking last night?
People always go on about the potential and talent in this Cork side but I don’t see it, they have a couple of decent players but on talent alone from what I’ve seen, they aren’t a top 6 side, they just happen to have a routine path to the last 8 every year. Their defence is shocking, they have loads of overhyped players like Kerrigan, Kelly, Shields, Cadogan etc who have been on the block for a while now and never do the business when it matters. But as well as that there is just a bad attitude in the squad overall, these players are completely gutless, they have been completely gutless for the course of the 10 or so years that this Cork team has been about.
It’s certainly not a surprise to me, in the past 3 years, at Championship level, they have beaten:
Limerick
Clare (x2)
Tipperary
Galway
Sligo
I think if you look at that list, Galway is the only one that pops out and if you’re judging things in context then you’d have to say that victory in 2013 was one where they scraped over the line against a Galway side who were nearly disposed of by Waterford at home in the qualifiers and hammered by Mayo in Connacht to the tune of 17 points.
I just can’t understand why people expect more of Cork, they’re no better than what they’ve achieved in the past few years and laying the blame at the manager is silly when neither the talent or mental toughness exists in the players.
Got told today, and this is pretty common knowledge now so no great exclusive, but Hurley and O’Driscoll were dropped from the team yesterday for drinking last weekend down in West cork with Ruiri Diane who was dropped from the panew. He was the obvious replacement for Alan O’ Connor or McGuire who for some bizarre reason was not used at all.
It emerged that Cork trained extremely hard 3 times between kerry games and again did a full session last Monday night. What a bunch of morons. They don’t deserve any better.
Aaron Devlin is on a life support machine, he would have been on the Derry panel over the past few years but was one of the players who received a lengthy ban for a tweet in the fallout after the Derry senior final last year. He’d only be in his early 20s as well, brain virus the cause apparently.
If Galway and Tyrone both win the Round 4 Qualifiers next weekend does that mean Galway face Monaghan in the semi final as they’ve already faced Mayo in the Connacht Championship?
Doubful @Juhniallio, Donegal lack the fluency Galway will bring. Galway, whether win or lose, will offer flambouyant football, aggressive tacticts and panache. Donegal, like all Nordie teams, offer strangulation.
Incorrect seeing as Galway have been outscored from play in their last two games against Ulster opposition and received more black cards in those games.
Galway happened to find themselves much better at the strangulation side of the game than both Derry and Armagh. They also picked up three black cards in those two games compared to the two Armagh and Derry picked up over the course of those games with the Brendan Rogers one for Derry being a complete farce of a decision.
As are yours nimby. Black cards are taken by winners at the end of a game for time wasting purposes. Attempting to use them as an indicator of dirt is pointless.
And you were on here singing the praises of Derry for shutting up shop against Dublin. Basically it just returns to your amusing medical condition of having to defend every nordie team no matter what. I love it.
I’m not using them as an example of dirt but of cynicism which doesn’t fit with the pitcture Boxty is portraying of the current Galway football team. The fact that you saw it as an indication of dirt is an incorrect inference on your part.
They have a hard edge, they are organised and they are very willing to do whatever it takes to get over the line with cynicism. They are not playing like a team with panache