3,815 in attendance in Thurles this evening. What a crowd.
Final score.
Cork football star Valerie Mulcahy about to appear on Miriam O’Callaghan with her wife. Wonder what she’ll have to say about the display in Thurles tonight.
Well ahead of you sez Tomas O’Shea.
Holy fuck, the counties must have a combined population of 700 thousand or so? It really is just Galway who have useless fans. Professionalism just around the corner for the gah with these crowds.
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Ah Jesus that is dreadful. And Kildare probably brought 3,810 of that
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Cork is a hurling county, majority of the population only have a very passing interest in football.
Going on today’s performance it looks like their footballers have a passing interest in football as well.
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Kildare is the 2nd biggest population in Ireland now I was told recently.
So about 800-1m I would say.
Mostly displaced dubs i’d say, who wouldn’t support Kildare.
True, but they will be a power in time. They seem organised
Don’t believe everything you hear Kev.
Ah Kev.
Clearly a big deal for someone who’s barometer of success is numbers in the quarter finals on the August Bank Holiday Weekend and not what happens at the business end of the tournament culminating on the third Sunday in September.
Let’s see if Fermanagh can improve on some of those Ulster quarter final performances over the last three years that you’ve alluded to - the miserly 0-9 Cavan registered in the quarter final in 2013 - Cavan’s tally the second lowest score ever posted in a quarter final since their introduction in 2001 (the lowest the 0-5 registered by Fermanagh in the 2003 quarter final) or whether Fermanagh can improve on the 17 point hammering Monaghan received in the 2014 quarter final making it an all Ulster top 3 for heaviest quarter final defeats, Fermanagh’s 19 point hammering in the said 2003 quarter final in Number 1, Monaghan’s 17 point hammering in Number 2 and Donegal’s 16 point hammering by Mayo in the 2013 quarter final in Number 3.
I’m just as shocked at Kildare thurles is no drive from newbridge etc but hurling county or not there’s enough of ye to send more than the probably thousand cork fans there today. I know they’ll probably have 20 k tomorrow. Amazing how quick seasons change, two weeks ago cork were robbed in a display where they stuck it to the critics, now they are at the bottom of the well again. Any given Saturday.
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.
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