I was posting about Cork games we won when coming in as complete outsiders, you muppet.
Well you only made that clear after the fact. Before that you were just randomly adding years as far as anyone else could see.
But while I’m here.
2003, 2008.
Not shocks.
Anyone with an ounce of KK-Cork knowledge would have put 2+2 together in regards to 66 & 99. You were 16 in 99, do you recall that one?
2006 was the only real KK shock i remember, they are almost always favourites against cork, they do have a good record against Cork.
'66 and '99 were clear references to unfancied Cork teams coming from under the radar to win All Irelands. But I’m afraid they were with largely u21 teams at the start of their inter county careers. In '92 Cork were clear favourites, but historically these games have gone against the favourite. However, the gap is such this time that Cork may very well play above themselves and still lose by 7/8 points. That is all.
Ye were absolutely roaring favourites in 1982 and got a mighty land when beaten by 11 points.
I was giving you the opposite. Non-shocks.
Anyone with an ounce of KK-Cork knowledge would have put 2+2 together in regards to 03 & 08.
As we are favourites for those 2 and I’d rather not have a shock.
Cork were warm favourites in 1982 - or so I am told. They were slight favourites in '92 but I fancied Kilkenny.
Was at 82 final, but memories are vague enough, only that we were hammered.
i agree though, even a vintage Cork performance may not be enough.
99 wasn’t a shock ffs. They had beaten Offaly in a classic in the semi-final and Clare before that. They were the bookie’s underdogs maybe but not a chance was it a shock.
If you put aside all the personnel issues Cork may have, the biggest problem surely is the lack of any sort of intelligent game plan. What type of game are they supposed to be playing exactly? Does it begin and end with Aisake?
Who knows.
Killkenny were massive favourites in 99 wtb, i don’t know what papers you were reading or people you were talking to.
Massive favourites is what they are now
Yeah, I don’t remember us being that big favourites in 1999.
I’d doubt we were even 1/2.
Today we are probably the biggest favourites involving a match between the 2 sides ever.
Mark Landers’s “Write the Rebels off at your peril” acceptance speech in 1999 was fucking laughable, the sort of shite many winning teams have re-hashed before and since. Irish Times’s Sean Moran and Sunday Times’s Denis Walsh both went for Cork in their previews, think Tribune’s McEvoy ( Kilkenny man) went for the Cats, with the caveat that Cork had a real chance. Kilkenny massive favourites in '99 me hole.
I remember fancying KK for the 99 final but not being at all surprised with the result. I’d say KK were no shorter than 4/7 or 4/6 and certianly not raging hot favourites by any stretch.
It has been settled that kev was talking through his hole on this one.
Hard to imagine how Cork would go about matching Kilkenny Sunday. Should Cadogan do well they’ll hold their own in the full-backline, but they’ll surely be destroyed in the next line. Kilkenny will have every form of superiority going. They’ll need massive games from the three boys, plus Kenny and Naughton just to stay in the game.
The shaved gorillas in the publishing office @TFK Towers are working on getting a preview up on the site.
The author has submitted the work.
+1. Very hard to see where Cork can gain an advantage, every KK forward capable of getting the better of their marker and their backs are phenomanel. If KK want to inflict serious pain on Cork then it could be an annihilation. They may however want to simply get through Sunday and save their best for the final.
i actually think corks back 7 are capable of keeping kilkennys score reasnably low. ie 1-17 or 18. its at the other end of the field they will have problems. so ill go with kilkenny 1-17 cork 0-13.
Time for some predictions.
PIO got things started.
I’m going with:
Kilkenny 1-22
Cork 1-16
Man of the Match: Richie Power
I think we’re in danger of forgetting that Cork are Cork.