Sure nobody’s watches it anymore.
I’d also say they are desperate for lads not to be pissed at the home comings in this new pc world.
If the players don’t want to stay just let them go home.
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What you need is the Man Of The Match winner drinking in The Hut while everybody else is wondering where the fuck they are.
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Cork having the banquet the night of the drawn game in 2013. Would it happen now
I only attended 2001/02 as I was a chap
The big thing i remember barely about those days was the 4 or 5 week lead up to the first round.
Everyone paid club membership as that was where the tickets came from, there was an ever ending discussion locally about the draw for tickets, the route down to the game, the team etc etc.
Every parish in the county had one if not two buses hitting to PUC with pit stops in Mitchelstown, Rathcormac on the way in.
There’s some great posts over on PV and articles by Westside about the hatred between the teams especially up around North Tipperary and East Clare. That u21 final in Ennis when Davy was manager was meant to be one of the most toxic atmospheres in GAA history.
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Tipperary’s two traditions of Talbot Street at noon on match day and The Palace at 11.30am on Monday are two of Irish sports finest.
Does any other county have anything even close?
Tipp did what Cork did to Hannon & Co for 35 mins in that fateful Munster final.
They hadn’t the legs or physicality to do it after the HT break and limerick just steamrolled them.
Cork just had more legs, fitness & physicality to turn Limerick and win more breaks.
I think Clare will be a slightly different proposition.
What was the name of that pub where the boys got on the roof with the “ Brush “ ?
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What year would that have been? I remember the controversial 2008 Munster U21 Final between Tipp and Clare but didn’t realise Davy had coached Clare U21’s in previous years.
1999 or 2000 i think. I was there in 2008, it wasn’t great but the other game was meant to be brutal. @Fat_Pox would know.
It was 99. Toxic atmosphere. A 17 year old Eoin Kelly won it with 4 second half points. Davy was Clare coach, he got in a row with Redser who was a sub after full time.
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You are also giving Clare way too much credit. Conlon is an absolute liability when Cork start running. I think they will absolutely rip Clare to bits.
Was there not a game that went to extra time in Ennis also and the ref rode Tipperary solid. The lad Joe Ceaser would have been playing?
Thanks mate
I would have similar fears for Clare too. I was looking at the age profile of the Clare team there. 9 of a starting 15 over 30 is a very high age profile.
Counties used to have designated haunts in Dublin and a few still do but that tradition seems to have died a bit of a death.
Kerry would have O’Shea’s The Merchant on the Quays. I believe The Shakespeare on Parnell Street which is now a Korean gastropub used to be a Kerry haunt.
The Portobello is a Donegal haunt. I always associated Barry’s Hotel with Cork. Barry’s used to be a big haunt in general especially pre-match but my impression is that it has long since fallen out of favour, I haven’t been in the place since All-Ireland football final day 1995. Was it a “gentlemen’s club” for a while?
Limerick would have Ned Rea’s, or has that tradition died with the man himself?
Was John Carroll playing that night? I was sitting beside Len Gaynor in behind the dugouts for one of those matches.
Cork butchered 3 or 4 goals chances in Cork against Clare and would have beaten them handy but for the sending off. I may be wrong but I think Cork will have too much for them.
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I was on the scoreboard end terrace for that one. Fans mixed obviously. Honestly don’t remember it being that bad. Nothing near the danger you might feel in the air at a club league game.
That was the beginning of Davy’s management career. He got handed the minor winning team from '97 by Daddy and co, with the original management team being shafted. Had done nothing to qualify him for the job of course. He was a complete disaster. I checked his wikipedia to see how long he was actually over the u21s, but it’s been scrubbed from the record. I feel like it was maybe 6 years and I think the only game he won was the semi-final against Cork in that first year.
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That would be my thinking on it too. I was at the Waterford v Cork match in Walsh Park first day out. Cork were absolutely septic that day, selected the wrong team to begin with as well. The Cork team now bears no relation to then.
I wasn’t overly impressed with what I saw of Clare against Waterford in Ennis. Felt they looked like a side that had regressed and were on a downward trajectory.
As against that, Clare have got over their recent semi final hoodoo, they are in a final, they don’t have to face Limerick and that gives them a fighters chance. A decent amount of All Ireland Final winning nous still there from 2013 too.
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Clare won a minor all Ireland in 97 but didn’t really get much off that team by Clare standards if you get me.