Few handy frees for Hoggy. Twas all the kept tipp in touching distance
Corkâs pace around the middle third and in the forwards would worry me. Tippâs major problem in the forwards is a lack of cutting edge pace, all their best hurlers while not slow arenât exactly lightning quick. Cork have players to cut teams open, which would concern me.
However, we are a very fit athletic and physical side who now play a clever brand of hurling. We work as hard if not harder than every other team. If itâs close will Cork match that when it really matters? I think there is more of âthe dogâ in us than them,willing to do the ugly stuff a bit more
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Weâll see how good we are against cork anyway. Tipp were very poor, hard to know just yet how poor they were even. Cork are a good quality side that will legitimately be aiming to go one better than they did last year.
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Limerick will have to improve a good bit to beat cork . The Tipp performance wonât do .
Agree.
Iâd agree with that. While we have a nice bit of pace and scoring potential too, there is nothing Cork would love more than a nice loose, open game like against Tipp last year or even the one in the 2014 Munster final. There was barely a tackle in the either game and with their pace, theyâd probably win.
We need to just constrict the space for their runners but the primary way to stop them is to make sure the ball going in isnât high quality. Our half-forwards canât give them room to breathe. We saw against Tipp that our backs will be win most ball if the delivery is disrupted.
How we deal with Lehane will be interesting too. Itâs another new test for Hannon at centre-back. Maybe similar to Cathal Mannion, who caused the serious damage in the first half of the League game but we tightened that up in the second. Midfield just dropped a little deeper and plugged the gaps, with Hannon holding the middle. Worked well.
Cork are truly a summer team and love the quick ground⌠While winning was huge for us the pace of the game was very slow and we kept Tipp in it with awful shooting/mistakes - needs to be cut out⌠As you say, Cork will drag us all over the place on a fine big pitch - what weâll want is for what Tipp gave us, horrible ball bate in on top of their forwards. Thatâs where Hayes and Hego come in hopefully⌠but midfield is going to be huge in this one, Cork love to work it through Kearney and Fitzgibbon - midfield was largely by-passed last day - Lynch and DOD + replacements will be key to winning this timeâŚ
People seem to seriously underestimate cork. They should by right have been in the AI final last year. I think they are a lovely side.
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I still think their defence is a worry but theyâve more than enough to bate us on their day. 3 games on the bounce and the 6 day turn around is very tough on them tho.
I think theyâre quality. Look at where they finished last year, theyâll legitimately be hoping to improve on that. They are coming from a much higher base than us.
I think people are overrating them. Clare should have been out of sight by half time. Not great aerially and it will be interesting to see how they deal with the ball Limerick play into the full forward line. Limerick by 6 pts.
Clare would be laden down with all Irelandâs if theyâd won the amount of games people keep saying they should have won in recent years.
Corks full back line is a lot better than what tipp out.
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Do they have much outside their starting 15 tho? Kingston is way off the boil - Is Cadogan injured?
I donât know, have we anyone with their ear to the ground in cork?
No.
They were saying Cadogan (Alan) was out for the entire provincial campaign. But you canât trust Cork people.
OâFlynn will presumably be out for at least 1 game but OâMahony is back. Not sure about Mickey Cahalane.
It will be their third week on the trot, whereas we will have had a break and two games to analyse them. Allied to that I would argue we have a stronger panel. On the form from last week youâd have to fancy Cork to beat Tipp, but with the caveat that we only saw the Tipp B team last week, a few adjustments should see them a bit stronger.
Cork were very easy on the eye last year but if Iâm honest the sweeter hurling last Sunday was played by Clare, only that they fucked away so many chances. On all evidence seen so far, we will do the same. This would be the big worry for me. The Cork defence was split clane open a good few times by Clare - we have the more physical runners like Hegarty & Hayes to fend off the covering challenges, but not the ability to put away the chances. Winning the frees in those scenarios would be crucial. At the other end, even if we keep Cork to scraps, they can keep the score-board ticking much easier. A big 50/50 call needs to be made a fullback too.
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Ok, ok⌠Iâll get onto my man.
Clareâs team of non physical midgets are ideal opponents for Cork. This Cork side will win more than they lose in open, free flowing shootouts. Very strong forward line.
I think thatâs why Cork struggle in the league. Rarely open matches. Boggy pitches, no bounce on the ball and often overpowered by physically stronger sides in a battle.
Coleman got an easy ride all last summer until Waterford threw Brick Walsh in on him and he was all at sea. Roasted in the semi final. Letâs see what heâs like when he has Hayes and Hegarty bullocking into him. Ditto that Charleville cunt in midfield getting a Byrnes shoulder special early on if he runs through the middle. Not sure if this Cork team like it up âem. If itâs a shoot out theyâll probably win though.
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Said this a long way back during the league. We canât keep relying on creating so many chances that we can afford to waste so many. When we meet better teams the amount of scoring chances we have will go down. Our conversion rate will need to improve a lot.