Well done @Bandage
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He only wants to coach, as opposed to managing, apparently.
If not he’d likely be the Donegal manager for 2022.
Maybe so.
With the split season now I think a lot of Inter County coaches/managers will throw their lots in with Club teams from July onwards.
I wonder will yer man David Morris stay involved with Corofin now. He was meant to be the brains of the operation for the last few years and had them playing that tika tika style of play. Kevin O’Brien just a safe pair of hands steering the ship.
Johnson is a Sligo man I believe. Living and working in Galway for a long time though. Wasn’t he over Ballintubber for their 2 most recent Mayo titles?
Yes he was.
With Tourlistrane in 2021. Still a big step up to the biggest job in Club Football.
In theory, there should be more All Ireland Club Titles in Corofin.
Not sure. Well beaten in Galway the past 2 years albeit in the semis and the final. Kinda feel another county title would be their limit now but you never know.
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Their age profile is reasonable (Molloy, Liam Silke, Ian Burke, Leonard, Farragher x2, Steede, Daithi Burke, McHugh etc should** all have 2 or more good years left, and they have supposedly got some excellent young players trying to break through (Tony Gill, Darragh Silke, Cooley, Mahon).
**But it’s amazing how success can sate the appetite of guys still relatively young. Lads just lose interest and feel they’ve nothing left to prove. Crossmaglen had the same problem after their failed 3 in a row bid in 2013. They lost a whole generation to injury, travel, crime etc.
There was a feeling when Corofin did the 3 in a row against Kilcoo that it was the ‘end of a process’, very similar to Germany in the 2014 World Cup or Dublin in the 2019 AI Final. Interesting to see how they go again as if they did come out of Galway the whole country would stand up and take note. They’d have that razzmatazz you need for the really big games on TG4.
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Corofin have never had the sort of aura that Crossmaglen had.
Crossmaglen’s aura was created by two things - the fact they had a solid backbone of county players, household names who drove a very successful inter-county team, an All-Ireland winning team, and their unique history as a club and a place.
Corofin have no big inter-county stars, no crossover names, no fascinating history to latch onto. Their big players have not produced at inter-county level.
Vincent’s had a bit of an aura about them because they had Dermo and because they were Vincent’s.
Ballyhale have an aura because of relentless excellence over the different decades.
Birr had it because they were a once in a lifetime generation who conquered all before them at club and inter-county level and did it in a particularly memorable style with hugely identifiable characters.
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Corofin had a different type of aura. Not feared perhaps but absolutely respected.
They didn’t have the big names but everyone knew they were better than the sum of their parts and could beat you playing whatever way they liked.
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I think their style of play will elevate them a lot in the fullness of time. The utter demolition jobs they did on Dr Crokes and Nemo Rangers in consecutive All Ireland finals. Along with demolishing a fine Slaughtneil side in another final a couple years previous. And even beating a very good Kilcoo side to complete their 3 in a row. Who could themselves go on to win it this year. And it will probably elevate that Corofin side even further if they do. Looking back it’s a great CV they put together. But probably at an end now.
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Corofin weren’t even the best gaa club side from galway - that was portumna. The joe show in those years was iconic
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how many did they lose to crime?
The lad who shot the guard in Louth.
The lad linked to the ATM robberies
I think another lad (innocent) was shot dead
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I find it hard to think of another prominent club team from a prominent county who didn’t have at least one or two players who made a serious impact at inter-county level.
It smacks a bit of flat track bully syndrome.
I suppose the reason I say that is because for years now a common complaint or perception about the Galway senior football team is that they weren’t exploiting Corofin’s success in order to build success at inter-county level.
But maybe in the end the truth was that the Corofin players weren’t good enough or dedicated enough or a combination of both, to have success at inter-county level.
You are missing the point . When evaluating the merits of a club team what their players do at IC level is irrelevant .
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When Cross were in their pomp from 2010-2013 their players weren’t doing much for Armagh either.
McConville was long retired, Clarke was a maverick, the Kernan’s maybe but their Armagh careers were largely uneventful bar Aaron.
The rest didn’t really bother a whole pile.
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I’m not missing the point. I’m making the point. Corofin players didn’t deliver at inter-county level.
If you want to be regarded as a great team you need a core of great players.
Corofin had a team of competent players who were very good at a lower level. They were very well coached as a team at that level.
But the claims made about them and the way they played were grandiose and way over the top.
There’s a reason the phrase “TG4 player” exists.
I disagree .
They’re county players were bang average. Good honest lads but nothing you wouldn’t find in most county set ups.Compare that to the Portumna lads.Night and day.
That is some load of absolute nonsense.
A team is greater than the sum of it parts. If you make a team of competent players into a multiple All Ireland winning team that is the very definition of a great team.
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