They thought that 2 years ago too.
Getting their excuses in early. A venue shouldnât matter a damn.
Ah yeah, sport is full of examples of home advantage not mattering.
Anseo!
V early in the year to be ordaining a fella
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Tbh Iâd agree. They are getting two PUC games in a row against Kerry off back of it. Youâd have to hope we will be stronger in next few years than now and them games might be more valuable to us
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Players donât think like that I suppose, theyâre being prepared for a match with Kerry this year and they want home advantage.
How do you think Limerick would have dealt with it @dodgy_keeper , maybe they donât need to worry about revenue but surely the Ed Sheeran gig was announced before the schedule?
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Home advantage is home advantage.
If Cork want to play it in Clonakilty, so be it. Same for any county.
Surely the Cork CB could have foreseen this exact scenario unfolding, though.
They canât have it both ways, the Munster Council have two years worth of match revenue to retrieve, they want bums on seats - or more pertinently cash in the account from the most high profile football match in the province.
The Cork CB have screwed over their own team and management by hosting a concert and taking the few pieces of silver. They only have themselves to blame, the Cork football squad should save their ire for their own and not anyone elsewhere.
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Do you think they should have withdrawn from hosting the concerts? I assume they have a large debt on the stadium redevelopment.
I agree with your point re the players but I wonder how much information they had about scheduling before Sheeran put his dates on the table, sounds like an excuse to rant at Cork 
How do you think Limerick would have dealt with it?
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Exactly.
Limerick could play in Mick Neville sure.
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Has anyone asked the question as to why the remedial work to Pairc Ui RInn hasnât been done?
They knew it was slated to hold the game, they had plenty time to get it done.
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For Limerick youâd have to assume it was the hurlers
Cork/Kerry is still a big fixture
This is a CB who held onto and worked around one of the worst playing surfaces in Ireland when redeveloping PuĂC so donât be too surprised.
The old Pairc?
It certainly was ropey for a long time, but had a pristine surface in itâs latter years. I was on the pitch the day of the final game (2014 Munster final) and it was like a bowling green with a lively spring on it.
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Whether they should have withdrawn from the concerts is Corkâs business. They plunged themselves millions into debt through a massive overspend.
Not ranting about Cork at all & Iâd attribute zero blame to Ricken or the players for wanting home advantage. Antrim are playing their home Ulster football championship match v Cavan in a ground which has only a couple of thousand seats but thatâs their prerogative. And rightfully so, thatâs the ground theyâve designated and capacity shouldnât matter. Maybe Iâm being naive that sporting integrity matters more than moolah.
What would Limerick have done? Iâd like to think that Spike, as the leading administrator in Irish sport, would have done his due diligence.
- at the outset heâd have let clubs know what hosting the concert would roughly generate.
- find out from the organisers how long the pitch is out of use for.
- included the football and hurling team in discussions and advise if they had to forfeit home advantage what other venues would be acceptable.
- keep the Munster Council in the loop (if we canât play at our first choice ground, is our second ground deemed acceptable to host the championship match? If not, why and whatâs the minimum capacity required? If yes, can I get that in writing to go back to the football squad with?
This fiasco is entirely self inflicted. Coming out now six weeks before one of the biggest games of the year is fairly shambolic.
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The hurlers with three Senior All Irelands behind them would probably be relaxed enough about where they play.
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Nail. On. The. Head.
There seems to have been a presumption among Cork CB that theyâd just be OK to play it in Porky Reeeen, but it appears that they didnât do their due diligence and didnât check out if remedial works were needed to keep capacity at its highest.
Spike just doesnât make errors like that
I was there myself and it was grand in the summertime in fairness, they had done some work on it. But didnât turn out that way after the redevelopment. Walked across the pitch on Saturday night, perfect sod for hurling.
How many concerts are they hosting?
Westlife are there too arent they?
Ha!