Think our football teams are decent
He has none of the physicality or aggression needed for inter-county hurling, and his touch has gone to shit in the past two years. Non existent defensive skills or instincts. 100% the first name to be jettisoned, Kingston got this one right.
Put 15 players out there who will bust their ass for 70 plus minutes and can actually hook/tackle and weāll see what happens.
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Thereās no divine right to win anything in any sportā¦ If youāre good enough go out and get it and no more about.
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McDonnell supposedly retiring as well. Under-rated hurler.
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this smells like a bit of industrial action
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How many of the management team are going. Probably the Rock, Cunningham are surplus to requirements.
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Offaly had a fairly freakishly good group of players from 1980 to 2000 . Also Birr had a freakishly good team most of those years
Based on numbers they would be nearer Kerry hurling than Cork .
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Are you seriousā¦? Or just from The Glen?
SMcD is the worst intercounty back I have seen since Limerickās Mickey Cahill.
To be fair, Kilkenny had some doozers in recent times, as per Robert Lennon, Enda Morrissey and Conor OāShea. But no one as hapless as SMcD.
Shane Cooney is the new kid on this Venn diagram block.
So is he hopeless or just lacking workrate which encapsulates what you said in 1st paragraph?
I thought he looked a decent enough player back in 2013. Solid and unspectacular but have never really seen much in him since. He came at half time for the Robert Downey was was having a stinker against Clare in Ennis in last years Munster championship and looked like a fella who hadnāt picked up a hurley in years, was utterly hapless.
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Shane Cooney isnāt a corner back but heās a very good hurler
You have an excellent grasp of hurling ā but I think SMcD was heading for Enda Flannery territoryā¦
Wellā¦ I wonder.
Iād also wonder would we be talking differently about the players from the recent Cork under 21s/20s if they had a management team of similar calibre of Cahill/Bevans as opposed to Dennis Ring
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Thereās no fear of cork. The weight of numbers will mean ye are never far away.
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He came on at halftime against Limerick in 2019 also and he was outstanding to be fair, I always liked McDonnell even if he was a liability at times, always tried to play from the front, fair play to him, always gave his all
He has been hopeless for the past two years, and was over-rated before that.
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Weāve been far away for 15 years though? With the exception of 2013 thanks to Nash.
All the whures hopefully
Tbh he was savage for a while :::: like my beamish days , but got awful undependable, when he was brilliant he was outstanding but his mediocre lack lustre performances were too often
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