A DOG.
It goes way beyond that
Is there a medicine for Corkness?
Cork havenât evolved at all, the opposite really. Theyâve taken that short passing and brought it to the point of farce.
Limerick do short passing as well. But only to work it to the point where they can deliver it.
Every decent team in the country now clogs the middle to prevent runners down the centre, yet Cork havenât tweaked it at all.
Even the orignal Cork team they still hit loads of decent ball into their forwards from distance. Into Ben OâConnor, Deane etc running into space.
Cork seem to have forgotten why they were short passing in the first place. It was a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Against Limerick the first day it was like they couldnât play it forward until they had hit 5 short passes or something. Like a drill in training. Its bizarre.
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That Ciaran Joyce looks to be an absolutely outstanding prospect. Cork still need to sort 3 out but they are not miles off it. They could easily be the second best team in the country with a better management team in place.
For whatever reason theyâd a brutal underage record for the bones off 20 years but Iâm not sure how thatâs Donal og or Donal o Gradyâs fault.
The problem is that promising youngsters then donât make the short passing game grade at senior.
Or theyâre coached to be hams.
That isnât really true in my opinion. Most of their best underage players are only 19/20/21. Way too early to judge them. 2021 was their first
Minor title in 20 odd years I think.
They need to find a full back and with Joyce at six.
Kerry?
My reading of their short passing is they are trying to do the right thing but canât deal with limericks physicality so it breaks down in the worst areas. Combine this with the fact theyâve no out ball like say a Limerick whoâve hayes, gillane and Flanagan it can look like an absolutely shambles of a plan.
Nailed it 
Brought to the point of farce is the perfect summation. And who was the biggest influence on that exaggerated style of play in this current Cork set up?
UUCOAM Donal OâGrady
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Donal Ăg Cusack is a disciple of the short game. He promotes the softening of the game on a regular basis, consistently looking for rule changes and refs to give physical players âwhatâs coming to themâ. This strong influence has worked itâs way into the Cork psyche and is clear for all to see. Kingston was a joke on the line v Limerick, looking for soft frees and pointing to his head every time another Cork player hit the deck and whipped off the helmet. A disease and a sign of unbelievable weakness.
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Mention of Cork not having an outball similar to Gillane or Flanagan. They had Seamie Harnedy, an excellent target man and good in the air but they had him out around the half forward line playing pop passes for Darragh Fitzgibbon to run onto for a soft score. They have Tim OâMahony but they had him playing wing back. Neither are as good as Gillane or Flanagan but fuck it, put them in an inside 2 and coach them and work on it like Limerick had to. But no, instead they indulged Patrick âHoggy Boyâ Horgan in there, because well you canât drop him boi! Horgan should have been moulded into a drifting 11 who was willing to burst his bollox for 50 minutes or so or told heâd be coming in as a sub
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I donât like cusack but itâs a fair stretch to say a guy who isnât really involved is responsible. Iâm not how much of an influence he really is to be honest.
On your second point I can again agree to a extent but in reality is they need a couple seamus harnedy types in their team. If heâs in at 14 theyâll really miss him at half forward. They did eventually cull Horgan too.
Regardless the cork management isnât up to it. Thatâs who you blame and as long they donât find the right management team theyâll come up short.
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You have nailed it. The Cork lads have said Horgan deserves one for the last five years. He is a lazy fucker and if he worked harder they may have won an All Ireland.
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Kingston blaming the ref. Should have gotten more frees.
Is Pat Ryan in the frame at all for the senior job in Cork? He was pretty close seemingly to taking over from Derek in Waterford in 2018 but the word was that he had a last minute rethink as he felt there was too much of a whiff of player power.
The shoulder heâs referring to Iâd say. DOG has destroyed them.
Blatant he said it was 
Yes Kieran, it was a blatantly perfect shoulder by Dawhee Burke.
Sheedy trolling the shit out of them now to hammer the nail in
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I hope Cork win soon, brilliant supporters in the main, good in victory and in defeat which is rare, they would be a thorough decent bunch of people.
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