[quote=“Gaillimharais”]Have a sneaking suspicion Corofin will beat Kilmacud. Corofin have lost Mikey Comer who would’ve man-marked either Vaughan or Kavanagh which is a huge blow but still think they’ve the quality to go through.
Their back line even without Comer is probably the best in club football so if they can get the scores up front they could sneak it by a point or two.[/quote]
All things being even, Kilmacud should win handy enough. But with guys like Vaughan on your team you just never know.
Club football in Connaught is ver strong alright, but if Kilmacud get things right they should be pretty unstopable.
Should all be great games alright. Especially looking forward to the Ballyhale-Portumna one though.
If it’s anything like Ballyhale and Toomevara game a couple of years ago it’ll be a corker. Think Shamrocks were 8 or 9 points down in the first half and ended up winning by 6 points or something. Cracker of a game.
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]All things being even, Kilmacud should win handy enough. But with guys like Vaughan on your team you just never know.
Club football in Connaught is ver strong alright, but if Kilmacud get things right they should be pretty unstopable.[/quote]
Never doubt Corofin though. They are far more than the sum of their parts. Also Crokes are an odd shower, they could do anything. None more so than Vaughan.
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]I think thats exactly what i said MBB.
Can’t wait for the hurling sunday, looks like being good weather, should mean a cracker.
As said above, the club championship is where its at. Met a few Dripsey lads during the week, and to see the way they were really brings it home.[/quote]
I know what you mean, there’s nothing in this Country like the GAA Club. When a Club is going well, it raises the whole community.
You must explain the Dripsey thing to me, where did they spring up from all of a sudden?
Seen as NCC will have huge interest in this, and he’s a bit stupid and needs bullit points, thats what i’ll give you MBB, hope you don’t mind.
Inniscarra is a club in Mid-Cork (beside Ballincollig), huge playing base.
One of the biggest parishes in Ireland
Very successful at underage for years
18 pubs in the parish, despite the fact that there are no real villages
Plays Premier Intermediate
Generally not liked by their neighbouring clubs.
Dripsey is a small place inside this parish of Inniscarra
Dripsey would always have had its own slightly different identity
5,6,7 years ago Inniscarra produced a few very good underage sides, made Minor Premier Final, U-21 Mid-Corks won etc
Most of these players happened to be from Dripsey, at least the best guys.
Over time things started to be said about it. A conspiricy of sorts was “supposed” to have started.
One thing led to another and fallings out happened with the older crowd
Players from the Dripsey area were apparently been left off teams even thought they were clearly better than other more “Inniscarra” people.
Instead of fightng it, the younger Dripsey lads decided that they felt they had enough about them to start up a club.
Dripsey as i said has an identity, a village and is a beautiful place, alng the Lee Valley. These guys were obviously proud of it and decided it deserved its own club.
It was a serious battle to get away from Inniscarra. The then PRO was Bob Ryan, he’s from Inniscarra. He went out of his way to make life horrible for Dripsey and forming their club. If he gets to be the next chairman and with dripsey now up Intermediate and under the control of the County Board, God help them. He’s Frank Murphy without the intelligence.
Anyway they got it done and started out 4 years ago.
They went straight into Junior “A” as with the 6 or 7 Intermediate players they were taking from Inniscarra it was felt they were too good to start at Junior “B”. This was correct as they won 3 Mid-Cork league titles in a row, and then the championship last year. They went Junior “B” in football and won the county at the first time of asking, not bad considering there are about 180 clubs in that comp. They should win Junior “A” football next year in Mid-Cork, and if you do that history shows you have a dam good chance of then winning the county.
They are struggling a little with underage numbers, but have recently joined up with another club for Minor, the other club struggles with getting young hulers, while Dripsey struggles with getting young footballers, makes sense.
They are also a sound bunch, and are what the GAA are all about IMO.*
Cant say fairer than that, some explanation Kev, cheers.
They’ll need to work on the juvenile side of it though, tis all well and good having a strong side now,w ith nothing to back it up they could be back to Iniscarra in no time.
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]Seen as NCC will have huge interest in this, and he’s a bit stupid and needs bullit points, thats what i’ll give you MBB, hope you don’t mind.
Inniscarra is a club in Mid-Cork (beside Ballincollig), huge playing base.
One of the biggest parishes in Ireland
Very successful at underage for years
18 pubs in the parish, despite the fact that there are no real villages
Plays Premier Intermediate
Generally not liked by their neighbouring clubs.
Dripsey is a small place inside this parish of Inniscarra
Dripsey would always have had its own slightly different identity
5,6,7 years ago Inniscarra produced a few very good underage sides, made Minor Premier Final, U-21 Mid-Corks won etc
Most of these players happened to be from Dripsey, at least the best guys.
Over time things started to be said about it. A conspiricy of sorts was “supposed” to have started.
One thing led to another and fallings out happened with the older crowd
Players from the Dripsey area were apparently been left off teams even thought they were clearly better than other more “Inniscarra” people.
Instead of fightng it, the younger Dripsey lads decided that they felt they had enough about them to start up a club.
Dripsey as i said has an identity, a village and is a beautiful place, alng the Lee Valley. These guys were obviously proud of it and decided it deserved its own club.
It was a serious battle to get away from Inniscarra. The then PRO was Bob Ryan, he’s from Inniscarra. He went out of his way to make life horrible for Dripsey and forming their club. If he gets to be the next chairman and with dripsey now up Intermediate and under the control of the County Board, God help them. He’s Frank Murphy without the intelligence.
Anyway they got it done and started out 4 years ago.
They went straight into Junior “A” as with the 6 or 7 Intermediate players they were taking from Inniscarra it was felt they were too good to start at Junior “B”. This was correct as they won 3 Mid-Cork league titles in a row, and then the championship last year. They went Junior “B” in football and won the county at the first time of asking, not bad considering there are about 180 clubs in that comp. They should win Junior “A” football next year in Mid-Cork, and if you do that history shows you have a dam good chance of then winning the county.
They are struggling a little with underage numbers, but have recently joined up with another club for Minor, the other club struggles with getting young hulers, while Dripsey struggles with getting young footballers, makes sense.
They are also a sound bunch, and are what the GAA are all about IMO.*
*I’m not from Dripsey by the way.[/quote]
They were all decked out in great colour last Sunday for the game,much more so than Tulloghers supporters who travelled in big numbers for the game too,i was taking to a couple of Tulloghers players since Sunday,depressed etc.Its hard to win anything in hurling.
Crokes are an odd team alright…on paper they have an outstanding mix of players…but they have struggled against poor opposition at times…they were very lucky to win Dublin final aswell…Someone on here said that Corofin have a brilliant defence…that could be interesting as Crokes have relied heavily on one of two forwards to get the scores…
Twas funny a while ago on the Wexford supporters site and a lad from Tullogher was asking a few questions about Clongeen as they were due to meet in the Leinster final. Harmless questions like “are they any good” and “many of the footballers on the team?”
Some lad from Clongeen registered then and said -
“Lads the club got a tip off that some cute KK hoor was trying to glean information for T/R about us from this site. Dont tell him another word. Every word here is going straight back to interested partys in KK.”
As if asking harmless questions were going to give them the advantage.
Although…
they did win…
so maybe.
[quote=“Pikeman”]Twas funny a while ago on the Wexford supporters site and a lad from Tullogher was asking a few questions about Clongeen as they were due to meet in the Leinster final. Harmless questions like “are they any good” and “many of the footballers on the team?”
Some lad from Clongeen registered then and said -
“Lads the club got a tip off that some cute KK hoor was trying to glean information for T/R about us from this site. Dont tell him another word. Every word here is going straight back to interested partys in KK.”
As if asking harmless questions were going to give them the advantage.
Although…
they did win…
so maybe.[/quote]
Ah great stuff. You see a lot of that stuff going on round Club Cships time, especially at the Intermediate and Junior levels when Clubs have no idea who they’re coming up against. Tis a big adventure.
I remember reading that alright Pike! I know a lad who’s a GAA reporter with a local title in Leinster and he gets regular calls around club championship time from all sorts of heads looking to get information on his own county’s representatives. These lads will initially dress it up as an innocent request to see if he has a copy of the county final programme or something. Then it’ll move onto a few general questions about the standard of the final, good crowd at it etc etc. When they think they’ve done sufficient groundwork and drawn him in, they’ll move onto lines of questioning about players to look out for, main scoring forwards, which is their strong foot, style of play etc. It’s gas actually.