CHARGE
Soft All Ireland confirmed.
Funeral atmosphere in Cork dressing room after the match. One thing being beaten but not showing up in second half is so disappointing.
I know one or two involved fairly well so got some of the rawness of loss first hand.
I actually feel sick. Silly but there you go.
[QUOTE=âTheUlteriorMotive, post: 1002046, member: 2272â]Funeral atmosphere in Cork dressing room after the match. One thing being beaten but not showing up in second half is so disappointing.
I know one or two involved fairly well so got some of the rawness of loss first hand.
I actually feel sick. Silly but there you go.[/QUOTE]
Theyâre young enough FFS. Not as if its the end of the road for them.
[QUOTE=âTheUlteriorMotive, post: 1002046, member: 2272â]Funeral atmosphere in Cork dressing room after the match. One thing being beaten but not showing up in second half is so disappointing.
I know one or two involved fairly well so got some of the rawness of loss first hand.
I actually feel sick. Silly but there you go.[/QUOTE]
Sport is a cunt, pal⌠It really is the hope that kills you⌠It goes on tho and who knows what next year holds!
[QUOTE=âtreaty_exile, post: 1002004, member: 233â]just in the door, etc.
poor start, as many wides as points in the first half for cork by my reckoning (i.e. I reserve the right to be wrong on that if the sunday game stats show otherwise)
all credit to cork, having your 6 forwards routinely standing 10 yards off their marker at every puck out has been out of fashion since JBMâs last All-Ireland win, the revivalist movement continues in splendid isolation.
Allowing Pa Cronin stay on the pitch for the requisite 45 mins also showed due deference to the team captain. Lord God Almighty. Won one scrappy ball, gave away several frees (no mean feat with that ref) and was generally beaten up a stick.
Workrate in the forward line was non-existent, I think Woodlock came out from a ruck with 3 corkmen in the second half that summed up the match.
Hard to believe nobody dropped in front of Shane OâNeill to try and shore things up, itâs not like Noel McGrath had any notion of getting into the corner.
SON has been cleaned out already this year but today was the first time a team punished Cork for it.
Christopher Joyce finished the game on the pitch for some reason. Cadogan or Egan surely worth a look? Even to follow Bubbles around the place, and switch Joyce / McDonnell around. Try something FFS.
Despite their dominance, Chipp were almost slavish to the high ball. They obviously paid more attention to Declan Ryan than we knew.
Hard to believe from an EOS team but Tipp lacked imagination with their delivery, and the most outrageous handpass of the day came from Bonner in garbage time.
If their forward line can re-discover the rhythm OâShea previously had them at, they could rack up an AI-winning tally next month.
Maher moving back at 7, Barry and Bergin coming in sorted out their problem positions and with Barrett sweeping up everything (outstanding flick when turned today. is he the cleanest corner back in the game or just the best at hiding it?) should keep them in the game.
Itâs hard to compare the intensity of the two semi finals, Iâd love to see if Tipp have the legs on KK on a dry day.
btw, with woodlock and mcgrath putting in a serious display today, is OâShea some sort of guru? the hurling equivalent of a horse-whisperer, just with a tipp accent?
the only members of the supporting cast yet to rediscover their old form are now Lar and Noel, and have another few weeks to find it.[/QUOTE]
Cork just donât have the backs. With the Tipp defence in inspired form a similarly defiant performance was needed at the other end and Cork couldnât provide it.
The Tipp forward line really didnât look that good today. They have good individual finishers, and they have Bonnar Maher, but thereâs little coherence to what theyâre doing.
[QUOTE=âTheUlteriorMotive, post: 1002046, member: 2272â]Funeral atmosphere in Cork dressing room after the match. One thing being beaten but not showing up in second half is so disappointing.
I know one or two involved fairly well so got some of the rawness of loss first hand.
I actually feel sick. Silly but there you go.[/QUOTE]
You got it royally wrong even though you wrote a couple of essays stating why they would win.
[QUOTE=âfenwaypark, post: 1002027, member: 276â]Congrats to Tipp, a lot more natural hurlers than Cork and much more of a team. A seriously good outfit.
Massive disappointment from our lads. While we are not as bad as we looked today, you would have to say that we are miles off the standard required to win an All Ireland. I would agree with much of what @Turenne has said post match. The players we have are as good as what is there. There is no talent at minor or U21 which is ready to make an immediate impact.
JBM has done a truly fantastic job to get the maximum out of the group of players we have at our disposal. It is easy to forget how poor we were prior to his appointment. He has made us competitive and has restored a hell of a lot of pride in the Cork Jersey. I hope he stays on. A legend and a gentleman.[/QUOTE]
A year ago no one knew Harnedy was in the county. This year the cork lads wrote off Ellis before the start but he did well. Cooper came from nowhere. (Letâs not judge these three just on today for the purposes of this argument) All the cork players improved under JBM. If he got sole custody of the footballers heâd wring more improvement out of that team. Limerick collapsed similarly v clare last year. Cork were never world beaters but by the same token they didnât become a bad team overnight.
Yep Even at half time I thought Cork had enough despite poor first half.
Didnât see that performance coming from the Cork forwards. Too many wides, dropped balls.
Ironically this turned out to br true
Im not writing off those lads they did the whole county proud last year and we having a good year before todays clusterfuck! What drove me mad was the constant supply of panicky hail mary ball down on top of Pa Cronin. Where was the angled deliveries into Hoggie and Lehane that we usually see? Those players play for us. The break their backsides in training in the winter for us and iâd just like the guys on the county board to replicate their dedication to the cause that is bringing success to Cork. We have a good minor management team in place and the minors gave an excellent Limerick team a tough game this year in Munster and their is some good prospects on that intermediate team. Iâd like to see some of those intermediates given extensive trials in the Waterford Crystal Cup next year and weâll have top flight league hurling as well. I think it would also be no harm for JBM to get Donal Oâgrady on board as a tactics advisor. At least today will put an end to this dual player nonsence. Mark Ellis has emerged as a fine centre back. Seamie tried his best but that man doesnât have to prove anything to anyone that man is a warrior and a future Cork captain. My own club man Billy Cooper had a bad day and people will be saying all sorts of stuff about him but he started the comeback in the drawn Waterford game with that Mossy Dowling like pushover try goal! He had a good munster final when he was up against Wayne McNamara who is a very tough customer. He just got stuck into his man won ball and scored a few points. Today is a bad day but iâll be there for those ladâs as always when the Waterford Crystal Cup rolls around.
Back from Croke Park. How in the name of god have those two teams got to a point where 70k people would watch and believe in them.
This Tipperary team are possibly the most limited team to have progressed to a final since Waterford 2008. I had a lot of time for Eamon OâShea (with just tabloid knowledge) but his dancing and general fist pumping âMullane-Nessâ indicates heâs a spoofer
Kilkenny will win the All Ireland Hurling Final by an absolute minimum of 7 points.
Todayâs game was like the opening of a new pitch without the priest blessings.
Brian Cody is the most significant Irish man since Michael Collins.
JJ Delaney might eventually get the praise he merits when he shepherds Callinan to 0-0 in the final.
Come at meâŚ
Your lads have nothing resembling even a second cousin to a leader on the pitch. Nobodies. On the sideline? Yep. Ye resembled the days when Sambo McNaughton would try his bollocks off for Antrim in a hopeless case Semi Final.
Without the Sambo McNaughton bit.
[QUOTE=âcarryharry, post: 1001950, member: 1517â]Lets call a spade a spade, Tipp will need to improve 25% to beat KK.
Question marks remain.[/QUOTE]
Weldone tipp
Cork just never got going. At half time to be only 2 points down I thought theyâd go on to win it.
Tipp were super. Padraic Maher was unstoppable, cleaned up. Surely he has to get MOTM? Most of the Tipp lads played well, their full backline was water tight. OâDwyer will kill teams if given space. Should be a cracker in 3 weeks.
Hard luck to Cork, one of those days when nothing went for them. When Horgan is missing frees you know itâs not your day.
What happaned ye??
[QUOTE=âLazarus, post: 1001631, member: 286â]Callinan:clap:
I though he was shit?[/QUOTE]
will tipp win the final mate
[QUOTE=âdodgy-keeper, post: 1002102, member: 1552â]Cork just never got going. At half time to be only 2 points down I thought theyâd go on to win it.
Tipp were super. Padraic Maher was unstoppable, cleaned up. Surely he has to get MOTM? Most of the Tipp lads played well, their full backline was water tight. OâDwyer will kill teams if given space. Should be a cracker in 3 weeks.
Hard luck to Cork, one of those days when nothing went for them. When Horgan is missing frees you know itâs not your day.[/QUOTE]
Maher got MOTM
Sorry i applogise
Which one?