An amalgamated Munster/Leinster Championship might give football a bit of a kick. But no doubt they would make a balls of that too.
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Sure we knocked them out of the championship in 2020
That however is the only time we have beaten them in championship in 12 years
The problem with Cork football is any good underage footballer is a good hurler too. When it comes to a choice 99% will pick hurling.
Kerry are 1/14
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Full round of senior hurling league games in Cork tonight sums up the interest in Cork football.
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I donât know if the LGFA/CamĂłgs would even do that
Imagine that eh, a low key build up to a sporting fixture that is not expected to be a contest! Not as much interest in the game as when these were the 2 best teams in the country, a total mystery.
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Friday night instead was surely possible
SPLIT SEASON ZEALOTâŚetc etc
this split season makes it difficult for a man to plan his GAA itenary
I have gone for Kerry v Kildare on clubber in the Joe Mac @ 2pm, whilst also watching a bit of Galway v Kikenny at 315pm
Then it is get a bus to Parnell Park circa 4pm whilst watching Galway v Kilkenny on the phone , well actually the Craobh Chiaran Club house first and then Parnell Park for Offaly v Dublin
I guess I am now officially a Dub! I have chosen to go watch the Dublin hurlers rather than watch Kerry v Cork in football. I intend to drink a bucket load of pints after Dublin v Offaly and enjoy my hangover on the couch tomorow watching the Munster hurling matches
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Cork are at fault for their own collapse in football.
Not the split season𤣠Jesus peddler for a man who has such a keen interest in club GAAâŚIâm shocked with your such anti split season stance
Split season cultists actually now cheerleading lack of interest.
Killing off interest was clearly always the plan.
The FAI couldnât have done a better job, not least because they themselves are hopelessly incompetent.
But thereâs a cabal working inside the GAA working far more effectively for Irish association football than that gameâs own administrators ever could.
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It was but no one cares. I am going to one of the league games tonight myself.
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Itâs more often than not a damp squib. Every now and then Cork get the odd competitive game but itâs history is one of Micko going in telling Billy and de bais theyâre the second best team in Ireland and laughing his hole off on the way out
Pure joke with both football and hurling championship on to play that round of games
1991 in Fitzgerald Stadium was epic
Knock out - Kerry hadnt beaten Cork since 1986, Cork were back to back All Ireland champions and absolutely walloped Kerry in PUC the year before
I have family in Killarney( a kick of a ball from the stadium) so as a young lad used be put up and brought over to Killarney for the Kerry\Cork weekend. Kerry had no chance was the word around the town on Saturday night which was understandable as we had a a shit enough team. There was concern about the fact that Pa Dennehy could get his place on the team so that kind of confirmed that we must be bad was the talk.
I was brought to mass sunday morning and the mood seemed to change around the town between mass and the time we went into the grounds that there was potential for an ambush, Ambrose O Donovan lived in the middle of town and word was people met him that morning and he said that they were going to fuck everything at Cork and the team was well primed to pull off an upset, word spread. As Kerry warmed up there was a sense of surely there is some bit of pride in Kerry to do something after the humiliation the year before ( the lock the gates and make kerry fans watch the drubbing munster final)
Jacko and Pat Spillane though now ancient and as slow as tortoises started pulling the strings and were reading the game, directing play early on, Ambrose was hitting shoulders left right and centre, bits of class from Maurice Fitz and a lad about 6â6 called Noel OâMahony at midfield was controlling the skies. Cork looked kind of tired and a team worn out after several long campaigns and many battles with Meath. Hunger diluted by back to back all irelands
The Kerry crowd were growing in voice and the aforementioned Pa Dennehy was causing havoc, Tony Nation couldnt make any hand of him. He took an off the ball punch in the gob from a Cork defender which saw him stricken on the ground but he got up and continued to torment Nation. After half time, he cut in along the endline and to this day we dont know if it was a shot gone wrong or a pass but he somehow picked out 18 year old John Cronin ( not long finished his Leaving) who send a bullet to the net. I never before or since heard Fitzgerald stadium become so vocal or racous , Kerry held on to win by only 2 or 3 points but never looked like been beaten, never was there such celebrations after beating Cork. Pa Dennehy got man of the match and after 1991 I never again recall him playing for Kerry
My only regret was that I was too young to be drinking pints down the town
what a day it was
This evening I go to Parnell Park to watch Dublin v Offaly in hurling, Kerry v Cork barely registers on my mind
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You canât be accused of being a bandwagonner anyway. Supporting Dubl8n hurlers is not for the faint hearted.
Thereâs lads leaving the country rather than stick at it
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Weâve put on a full round of hurling figures when our hurlers had championship matches in the recent pastâŚshows the interest our Co Board had/has in our hurlers
You are more than welcome aboard. Sounds like youâll fit right in!
Serious McGregor chatting to Tucker Carlson vibes off that. A shadowy cabal are destroying the gaa