What are you on about with the bit in bold?Those footballers backed the hurlers to the hilt during that trouble with the county board.Those footballers had to go on strike to win their all ireland.Our footballers deserve greater adulation but every ounce of adulation our hurlers got was well deserved.They won all irelands and stood up to those thugs in the county board.I won’t stand for some non Cork man telling me what the story is!
Dignity ain’t a word i’d associate with you either.:rolleyes:
Alan O’Connor was a warhorse for Cork.He wasn’t the most technically gifted of players but he was a committed and wholehearted performer who gave it his all for Cork and he was as hard as nails!He more than played his part in our all Ireland win in 2010 and he had the year of his life in 2011 particularly in the second half of that Kerry game in Killarney when he nearly beat those fcukers on his own!He wasn’t able for the pace of games in Croke Park anymore but he would have been a handy impact sub to have.All the best Alan!
You know something im fucking gutted that we didn’t land more than 1 all ireland during the years from 2009-2012 and i am gutted that we wasted a year last year.Don’t give me this horseshit about oh we did well to win the one blaa blaa blaa that Cork team was one of the best teams in Ireland during that time and it’s a tragedy that they didn’t land a second all Ireland which they should have in 2012.However as of now were entering a new era we still have good forwards but our backs and midfield need serious rebuilding well more so the midfield.Alan O’Connor and Pearse O’Neill would have been handy impact subs to have.Neither of them were good enough to start anymore but they still had something to offer.As it is we now have 1 established midfielder and i don’t see how Aidan Walsh spending time with the hurlers will improve things like the consistency of his kicking and usage of the ball.
It look’s like avoiding relegation from the league,winning munster and an all ireland semi final appearance will be as good as it gets for us next year.For someone like me who had such high hopes for Cork football after 2010 i find this readjustment and downgrading of my expectations to be hard.However we’ll blood a lot of players and guys like Shieldsy and Goulding will take ownership of the team.We were a stale and sterile team this year.Now were rebooting the system and starting from a blank canvas but we still have a core of players who won all ireland medals and there is plenty of promising players around the county.Im optimistic that Cork will be back as a footballing force in 2016 or perhaps 2015?Sure if we sneak an all ireland appearance next year then who knows?Im very optimistic about the future of Cork football going forward into the next few years.
Look the rights or wrongs of the strike can, and have been debated at length, but an autobiography is only worthwhile if it is honest, otherwise you end up with a canice picklingtonesque tome of utter blandness, not unlike Brian cody’s book. Ill buy setanta o hailpin’s for the very reason that he is honest enough to make it interesting.
Obviously you do need someone not from Cork telling you what the story is if you can’t understand the bit in bold. I’m on about John Gardiner and Sean Og being dropped from the Cork hurling panel and bitching about it in the media afterwards. I never mentioned the strike yet you felt the need to go on a fucking rant about it.
I felt that Sean Og interview wasn’t half as bad as people made it out to be apart from the places i never heard off line.That interview by Gardiner on the week of the drawn all ireland final though was bang out of order though.I guess my point is that while there is a lot of hostility towards the Og’s and Gardiners of this world about all that hassle a few years ago the footballers that you admire were also on the same side of the argument as them!
Alan O Connor is 28 or so by my reckoning, something is afoot in Cork.
ALAN O’Connor feels ‘the time is right’ for him to retire from inter-county football with Cork.
The 28-year-old St Colum’s clubman announced this evening (Tuesday) that he was stepping back from the county panel, having informed Cork boss Brian Cuthbert this morning (Tuesday).
It was a decision that he had been thinking about for almost eight months.
The All-Ireland winning Cork midfielder, who lives in Kealkil with Lorraine and their two daughters, Rebecca (18 months) and Emma (eight months), explains that he just isn’t able to give the high level of commitment needed to compete at inter-county level right now.
‘The demands are so high, everything has to be right and you need to put a lot into it before you get something back. I don’t think I would have done myself or the county justice if I kept going the way I was,’ Alan told The Southern Star on Tuesday night.
‘I have two small ones under the age of two at home, and last season was tough enough, given the time and dedication that’s needed to go up and down to Cork, especially from the back of Bantry. It’s six hours before you do anything. It’s the right time to go.’
Christ, I didn’t realise that’s all he was, I think that he struggled somewhat with the pace of the game this year, particularly the Dublin game, and he wasn’t too prominent V Galway either. On the other hand, I was surprised to hear Pierce O Neill was 33, I think he still has a lot to offer.
Yes Pearse O’Neill would still have something to offer.The only established midfielder Cork are left with will be spending half his time with the hurlers!I also think that Paudie Kissane should have been kept on.
As I said, something is amiss.
Did you not read that article i put up!
Nothing is amiss. Just a good old fashioned clean out and a different approach with a different style. Smarts approach as that is what Cork has now.
Odd to name him in the training panel then just a week ago.
[quote=“Beautiful City, post: 860773, member: 1616”]Here is the training panel.
Players training with the Squad
Michael Shields (capt)
Ken O’Halloran
David Hanrahan
Tom Clancy (Fermoy)
John McLoughlin
Ray Carey
Eoin Cadogan
Alan Cronin
James Loughrey
Alan Sheehan
John Hayes
Tom Clancy
Eoin Keane
Kevin O’Driscoll
Aidan Walsh
Alan O Connor
Fintan Goold
Daniel Goulding
Brian Hurley
Paul Kerrigan
Mark Collins
Barry O’Driscoll
Andrew O’Sullivan
John O’Rourke
Colm O’Driscoll
Donncha O’Connor
Donal Og Hodnett
Developing players – players who are still under 21 but will train with the squad
Conor Dorman
Brian O’Driscoll
Ian McGuire
Cathal Vaughan
Alan Cadogan
Dan MacEoin
Players who are injured or recovering from injury
Jamie O’Sullivan
Damien Cahalane
Paddy Kelly
Colm O’Neill[/quote]
I wasn’t referring to O Connor alone, who may well have just waited till after the county final to decide. Cutbert probably didn’t want to push him on it before hand. He had a think about it and wants out.
I know you’d love a great drama in Cork in the hope maybe they’d be dragged down to your counties level, but it won’t happen fella. One year of building a team and I’d say cork will be in the running to win an All Ireland again. *
- Assuming Ciaran Sheehan realized in the next 12 months what a mistake he made and goes home.
I love the way he uses “fella” when he’s struggling 
Some were cleaned out, O’Connor left on his own accord.
Midleton’s loss a v bad reflection on the standard of the senior club championship in Cork. They demolished sides on their way to the county final in Cork and were made look v ordinary on Sunday.
dont think they were made look ordinary, SMB did their homework and marked Lehane, Sars failed to do that, on another day Midleton could have been a few points to the good after the 1st half and Lehane was also unlucky not equalise late in the 2nd half, so even the score didnt reflect it, it was tight enough. Sixmilebridge are a good side and might cause an upset on Sunday. Eitherway Portuma will make everyone else look ordinary in the later stages.