Midleton beat Killeagh by 11.
Fuck those county board lackies Sars and all who sail in her.
I hear that Conor Lehane was on fire today.Hopefully he’s coming into form at the right time.
Luke O’Farrell also put in a good shift.
Nemo lost the Feile by 5 to Naas, who also won in the hurling. Must be a serious bunch.
They must be, no doubt they were absolutely focused and determined to win that U14 tournament. Huge sacrifices were made by the 13 and 14 year olds, I heard they practically had no social lives at all.
Interesting.
The Cork Minor Football team to play Kerry in the Munster Football Final will line out as follows:
(1) Colm O’Driscoll (Castlehaven)
(2) Tom Bushe (Ilen Rovers)
(3) Kevin Flahive (Douglas – Captain)
(4) Sean Powter (Douglas)
(5) Daniel Meaney (St. Michael’s)
(6) Cian O’Donovan (Clonakilty)
(7) Cian Kiely (Ballincollig)
(8 Sean O’Leary (Bantry Blues)
(9) Micheál O Deasúna (Cill Na Martra)
(10) Seamus Ronayne (Clyda Rovers)
(11) Daniel O Duinnín (Cill Na Martra)
(12) Sean O’Donoghue (Inniscarra)
(13) Shane Kingston (Douglas)
(14) Michael Hurley (Castlehaven)
(15) Gary Murphy (Castletownbere)
Subs
(16) Anthony Kidney (Passage West)
(17) Alex Hassett (Ilen Rovers)
(18 John Mullins (Eire Og)
(19) Michael Lordan (Ballinora)
(20) Damien Buckley (Ballyclough)
(21) Evan Ryle (Carrigaline)
(22) Eoin O’Sullivan (Douglas)
(23) Michael Cottrell (Newmarket)
(24) Martin Collins (Kilmacabea)
Donal O’Sullivan and his selectors have made three changes to the team ahead of the Munster Final. Brian Coakley and Maidhc O’Duinnín lose out through injury and are replaced by Micheál Ó Deasúna and Daniel Ó Duinnín. Gary Murphy starts in place of Damien Buckley.
Additional Panel Members
Maidhc O Duinnín (Naomh Abhan)
Conor Nolan(Castlehaven)
Ronan Walsh (Castlehaven
Andrew Joyce (Youghal)
John Fintan Daly (Knocknagree)
Chiedozie Ogbene (Nemo Rangers)
Brian Coakley (Carrigaline)
Olan Murphy (St Finbarrs)
Eoin Lavers (Sam Maguire’s)
Matthew Farrell (Youghal)
David O’Neill (Mayfield)
Ronan O’Donovan (Buttevant)
Further proof that Cork fans are the worst of the lot
The GPA have described the online criticism of Cork’s footballers on Sunday as “beneath contempt”.
Sean Potts, the official players body’s head of communications, slammed the reaction by some supporters to players’ performances in the Munster final defeat to Kerry.
After the Cork County Board came to the defence of the players, former Cork hurler and mental health activist Conor Cusack hit back at their detractors. He tweeted: “It would be wise of the keyboard warriors to remember that our real warriors, our players in the arena, wear more than their county jerseys.”
The cutting remarks against the players come just over a month after the GPA launched their We Wear More mental health campaign for their county players which featured Eoin Cadogan, one of the Cork players singled out for slack.
“The whole concept behind what we’re doing is respect and respecting people as individuals,” said Potts. “It was a bad day at the office for Cork but these people are amateur sportspeople. They deserve to be respected.
“The media tend to be very tempered and responsible in their commentary around this but even the analysis on radio was over-the-top. A bad day is a bad day. We direct and encourage people to look at our recent campaign and what the context behind it is and realise these people are more than just footballers and hurlers.
“They’re people in their own communities. It’s hard enough following a bad defeat to face the light again but particularly so when your own people are making comments. It’s beneath contempt.
“As Conor said, the real warriors are out on the field and everybody has a bad day. You win and lose games and you picked yourself up and that’s what these athletes do. They go back at it again and try and make up for it.”
Potts believes the vast majority of players are more than capable of brushing off such criticism. However, there is a concern it may impact on the mental well-being of a minority.
“Anyone in the public eye in any way, even people in the media, are subjected to that sort of aggression and comment online. It’s not nice and it can affect people in different ways. Most people can cope well with it but some can’t and the consequences for them can be very dramatic.
“People are under pressure and they are amateurs. We have to keep reminding and reiterating that despite the level of commitment being on a par with professional sport they’re amateurs and back in their community or work the next day. That’s not easy and it’s compounded by the keyboard warriors as Conor calls them.”
@caoimhaoin
@Beautiful City
@Turenne
1 ?
2 sullivan
3 dennehy
4 fleming
5 butler
6 healey
7 Hickey
8 Tom Lawrence
9 Sugrue
10 cian mccarthy
11 keane
12 sheehan
13 keith dennehy
14 kennefick
15 crowley
they were very poor on the day. the score at half time was 2 - 10 to 3. it finished up about 2 25 to maybe 1 - 10 or so. jamie wall is probably out for the rest of the year and i believe o`sullivan may be involved with the seniors from now on
ref made it 2 - 13 to 5 at half time but he was giving scores that seemed to me to be wide.
5 players that started against limerick in the 21 match played in this one
keeper corner back wing back midfielder and corner forward.
I’m assuming this is Cork U-21s?
If so, that’s our reserves, bar Adam Dennehy and maybe Sugrue. I have no idea who any of the lads in that half-back line are. What O’Sullivan are you talking about?
EDIT: Could just as easily be our intermediates I guess, also very weak. Podge Butler half-back?
[QUOTE=“Turenne, post: 979091, member: 232”]I’m assuming this is Cork U-21s?
If so, that’s our reserves, bar Adam Dennehy and maybe Sugrue. I have no idea who any of the lads in that half-back line are. What O’Sullivan are you talking about?
EDIT: Could just as easily be our intermediates I guess, also very weak. Podge Butler half-back?[/QUOTE]
Looks like the intermediate B side, which is basically a pub selection.
[QUOTE=“Turenne, post: 979091, member: 232”]I’m assuming this is Cork U-21s?
If so, that’s our reserves, bar Adam Dennehy and maybe Sugrue. I have no idea who any of the lads in that half-back line are. What O’Sullivan are you talking about?
EDIT: Could just as easily be our intermediates I guess, also very weak. Podge Butler half-back?[/QUOTE]
yes intermediates. i make it 4 lads that started in munster championship at a glance ?
2 that started, 2 came on. I have no idea who 2 and 7 are, unless the former is one of the Cloyne lads.
The players have to take their share of the blame and i undertsand Kevs point about giving Cubby a chance.He is a decent man but he was appointed to this job for all the wrong reasons and he is way out of his depth.John Cleary was the more qualified candidate but Brian Cuthbert was willing to facilitate dual players.I’ll just put up two posts from a poster on the PROC site.
I’m not disputing anything you say here, but it might be a little difficult for Conor to condemn lads he knows and played with (Sexton and Davis anyway). It’s still an excellent article. I think his silence on the lack of action by the sideline is effectively his condemnation of it. His praise of Kerry’s ever-changing methods to maintain their own football philosophy is also a stark contrast to Cork’s eternal Plan A in football. If you read between the lines, I think he is seething at the cluelessness of the line but also at the determination of the board not to have thinkers involved in the game.
That’s why criticism of Cubby is somewhat misplaced. He is just another “useful idiot” for the board, and for Frank’s quest to win an AI hurling title his way.
My club won a county 4 years back with a group of players who gave a performance of heart, skill, brains and die hard commitment. The centre back broke his leg in a last ditch tackle, and his replacement came on and gave a man of the match display. If you landed from Mars and watched them that day you’d say they were a credit to their club and their parish.
Last year almost the exact same team (18 of the 20 lads who played in the county final a few years back) got hammered out the gate in a relegation final, back down to where we’ve been for years. The performance from those same players was devoid of passion, clueless and ill-disciplined. If you landed from Mars and watched them that day you’d say they were a fucking disgrace to their club and their parish.
The only substantial difference between the two teams is the first team was managed by an innovative coach who has been up and down the country at courses, always thinking outside the box, and always ensuring that players enjoy themselves so that they can give their all and be proud of it, and last year’s shambles, which was managed by the club’s old guard, the same ol’ fuckwits who bitched and moaned from the bank all the way to our title a few years back and who jumped at the chance to manage again at your typical GAA club AGM ambush last year.
I would never compare Cubby and his mentors to those fuckwit county board men who invariably drag my club through the mud, but I would compare EDIT those county board men at my club with the fuckwit county board. I kinda like Cubby even if he’s too much of a political hobnobber to be seen as anything other than too sweet to be wholesome, and I have the utmost, utmost respect for Ciarán O’Sullivan and Owen Sexton especially, but this management team are dragging us back to the fag end of the Larry Tompkins era, and all in the space of 8 months.
Larry was another absolute legend who gave his all for Cork as a player, but completely inept as a manager and who the county board would’ve left in charge for 20 fucking years because he simply didn’t have the wit or ruthlessness to deal with the fuckers.
The players performance on Sunday appeared to be gutless and clueless, and they have to ask themselves why. Unfortuantley it seems that they already know the answer. It breaks my heart to see such talent go to waste, but it’s ever the same in Cork.
I can only assume that was Newmarket, and Danny Culloty is the man being spoke about positively. The same things happen everywhere.
It was a horrible result an performance, but the over reaction is way off. It is retrievable and most of the reactions are from, generally, the pub going heavy drinking EPL/Celtic following types who become football/hurling fans 7-8 times a year and wouldn’t know what the inside of a dressing room looks like.
Bar Ronan McCarthy that’s a very inexperienced management team. They will rectify it and Cork will put in a few very good performances yet this year.
It shows the step up. I’m a big critic of county players just being jumped into county management and having no experience and just learning on the job.
This however is not the case and Cutbert has done a good apprenticeship and a lot of those younger lads have huge time for him and played like men possessed in the past for him. I think that may happen again.
I think John Cleary was an ideal candidate but did he not withdraw? I thought he couldn’t commit or the CB would not go with his plans? Can’t quite remember.
I see TAN got a hard-on from Clare’s U-21s beating Cork’s Intermediate reserves…
[B]there were three heavy knocks on clare players in the game, two with the hurley and one body check.
the ref didn`t react to the first two and was not reacting to the second strike with the hurley until the clare bench reacted.
the player that drew the belt is not a dirty hurler but it was a very dirty blow that he would not have delivered in a championship match i feel
hogan
colleran carey obrien g oconnell o`neill quirke
enright played as a sweeper
m ryan mcgrath
s taylor tots fitzgerald
duggan ward
clare were utterly dominant from the throw in and put together periods of exceptionally good hurling in the game.
we were in complete control but the most interesting aspects for me were the performances of carey, michael ryan and particularly paddy fitzgerald
bobby duggan annihilated his man
cork had a similar amount of first choice players on display
tots may have done his hamstring he definitely went off holding his leg
it was around 2 - 10 to 3 at half time[/B]
The Cork U21 Hurling team to play Waterford in the Munster Semi-Final on Wednesday at 7.30pm in Walsh Park will line out as follows:
- Patrick Collins (Ballinhassig)
- Stephen Murphy (Blackrock)
- Colm Barry (Castlelyons)
- Cian Buckley (Na Piarsaigh)
- Kevin Kavanagh (Carrigaline)
- Killian Burke (Midleton – Captain)
- Cormac Murphy (Mallow)
- Darragh Brosnan (Brian Dillon’s)
- Rickard Cahalane (Ballymartle)
- Shane O Keeffe (Blackrock)
- Colm Spillane (Castlelyons)
- Michael Collins (Ballinhassig)
- Alan Cadogan (Douglas)
- Anthony Spillane (Castlelyons)
- Rob O’Shea (Carrigaline)
Cormac Murphy, Rob O’Shea and captain Killian Burke were all members of the Cork Senior Hurling panel that won the Munster Final on Sunday, while Alan Cadogan played in that game. The latter was also on the U21 Football team that won the Munster title earlier this year, along with Kevin Kavanagh. Goalkeeper Patrick Collins captained the Cork Minor Hurlers this year, and his brother Michael is wing-forward.
Subs
16. Mikey Brown (Ballyhea)
17. Colm Coleman (Ballymartle)
18. Paul Fitzgerald (Douglas)
19. Mark Sugrue (Bandon)
20. Killian O Connor (Mallow)
21. Mark O Connor (Douglas)
22. Killian McIntyre (Carrigaline)
23. Alan Dennehy (Charleville)
24. Eoin Smith (Blackrock)
Additional Panel Members
Cormac Walsh (Midleton)
Pa White (Midleton)
Pa Herlihy (Mallow)
Kevin O’ Keeffe (Blackrock)
Selectors: Alan Browne, John Hodgins, Damien Irwin, Pat Kenneally and Ger O’ Halloran.
Logistics: Derek Connolly
Physical: trainers: Richard O’ Leary and Niall McIntyre
Medical: Dr. Paddy Burke and John O’ Meara.
Statistics: Liam Duncliffe
We did enough to win yesterday but i actually thought we didn’t play to our full potential!We have to be more ruthless and create more goal chances when their on.Dublin or Tipp will punish a slow start the next day and i am still worried about our defence.For all Limericks wides they still scored 24 points.However we have forwards that will cause serious damage if they get quality ball.We have pace strength skill the whole lot there.I think perhaps Paudie O’Sullivan is best used as an impact sub to do wreck when the opposition are tiring.Aidan Walsh and Daniel Kearney are a serious midfield partnership.There is a never say die spirit in this team.We’ll give any team plenty of it.I think it will be Kilkenny v Limerick and Cork v Tipp in the semi final with the end result being Cork (hopefully!) and Kilkenny in the final for the first time since 2006!We still have a lot of improving to do and were not the finished article by any means.
Does Colm Spillane play in the forwards for his club? On paper we’d be doing well to have more than 3 or 4 on a combined side with Waterford.