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Ok Sherlock. He gets a dispensation for that does he? 
On second watch, The much maligned Pa Collins made 5 good saves throughout game and could have been awarded motm - the below all had goal chances. TOCâs workrate is incredible, heâs back there helping his defence in nearly all of them.
Bull O Brien
Hegarty
CON
Peter Casey
AOC (weak shot)
Very surprising Rory OâNeill didnât insist Hoggie and Ogie view Nokia 3210 footage of that hit from Downey
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The score would be a basic requirement for every match I suppose.
Exhibit A - Reasons why Cork have won fuck all in 20 years. Soft as fuck.
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Ignore the multiple posts from Limericks crying about Downey so.
Nash was yellow carded - Cork got a free.
Downey didnt get penalised.
Spot the difference ???
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How is that a red card for nash ? Two big men colliding. Its a free thatâs it!
Cork got seven scores from play in the entire game.
Thatâs the sort of statistic youâd associate with Cork football teams malfunctioning in Crow Park against Kerry.
Corkâs first half long puckouts were an absolute disaster. They won 8 out of 15 off their own puckouts in the first half and most of them were short.
In short, the Limerick defence and midfield pretty much pulverised the Cork attacking game in the half when Cork needed to be building a good sized lead.
Iâve only reached half time on a re-watch but Iâm fairly sure it doesnât get much better for Cork from there.
Cork would want to be bringing back Declan Dalton fairly sharpish on the evidence of that.
Was how Cork took that last free not the height of stupidity? Fair enough itâs too far to shoot but youâre asking for the ref to blow playing two passes before lobbing it in
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Ben O Connor I feel was never the right appointment for Cork. He only needed to tweak a couple of things to get over the line but heâs like an old housewife stuck to his ways with some of the attacking talent at his disposal. Keeping the fine china locked away in the cupboard gathering dust is all well and good if you can serve up a good spread but the Cork forwards look toothless at times. The flare is nowhere to be seen. Pat Ryan had Kyle Hayes annonymous at times and Byrnes looking like a 40 year old. He had them scrambling back towards their own goal instead of pinning their ears back. What was bringing on Hugh O Connor going to do? He doesnt have the hurling for that level yesterday and it showed in his very brief cameo. In Dalton, Kingston and a few more they can fashion a score from nothing. Its bemusing he is doubling down all the time. To be fair O Connell has blossomed under him whereas Ryan didnt trust him competely so its not all 1 way traffic. O Connell showed enough down the years to suggest he deserved more of a cut. Cork could have done with him last years AI final or being brought on earlier against Clare the year before.
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I think Limerick will still be delighted they are creating the goal chances. On another day Hegartyâs goes in. None of which were Gillane too. Manyâs a time we were saying it was the one thing lacking going forward.
Not as much raw pace as cork but so good at working the ball in tight spaces the chances are opening up now more for Limerick. The fact we won means it can be now a good complaint to be fair.
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Side question- what was the word being sung by the cork terrace to the tune of âkeanoâ ?
Damo, Damo
Yeah 50/50
Big against a short arse
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Yeah but even if they drew itâs still wayyyyyy too tame
If they want an AI they need to be bating limerick every way all over the park,
And that under BOC doesent look likely to happen
Youâd have to wonder what guys like Kingston, Harnedy, Dalton think of the set-up with BOC.
Imagine all three wonât be hanging around next season given the lack of game time.
Heâs really pushed the likes of HOC, Walsh x2 and Buckley way out ahead of them.
Hoggy no happy.
Patrick Horgan: That Limerick flag plant will come up in Cork discussions. Thatâs for sure
If these two meet again, expect the encounter to be even tastier.
STATEMENT: Limerick players, left to right, William OâDonoghue, and Darragh OâDonovan, celebrate in front of their supporters on the City Terrace. Pic: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile
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Patrick Horgan is a Cork hurling legend who, after calling time on a record-breaking career with the Rebels, now writes a weekly column.
Thereâs been a lot of discussion of the ending of the Munster hurling final â the timekeeping and the free, and the final whistle sounding as the ball dropped into the Limerick square.
Some of that discussion has focused on Cork players surrounding referee James Owens after the game, and complaints after the game that James didnât inform them how much time was left at the very end.
A few people have made the point that the clock was gone well past the five minutes announced when the last passage of play occurred, but as everyone in Cork knows well, thatâs a minimum amount of added time. Itâs at the refâs discretion to add on more time if he sees fit.
You can reduce the discussion about the ending of the game to a very simple point. If Patrick Collins was told that time was up and he had to score direct from that last free he would have gone for a score; if he was told that there was time for a play heâd have passed the ball instead, which was what he did.
Anyone whoâs played hurling or football will be familiar with a referee telling a player he has to score direct from a free because the time is up. On the other hand, if the referee says you have enough time for a play or two then youâll obviously try to work a better shooting chance, but on Sunday it was seemed to be neither one or the other. It was strange the referee allowed time for Cork to make one pass from that last free but not the second at the very end of the game.
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The entire match was no great spectacle anyway â it was very stop-start, and the rainy conditions didnât make it a great experience for people in the stadium.
Cork will be concerned by the fact that they didnât get a score from play after the 38th minute. To be fair, they were playing against the wind and the rain got heavier, while Nickie Quaid made an unbelievable save from Mark Coleman as well, but Cork will be unhappy with that return, obviously, and will seek to rectify that the next day.
They also felt the loss of Darragh Fitzgibbon on Sunday. Both teams will probably be thinking this week that they could have gotten more out of some key men; Limerick won but will feel that some of their top players didnât hit absolute top form, for instance. However, the fact that Fitzy didnât even play was a major blow for Cork and theyâll be very keen to get him back on the field for the All-Ireland series.
In the context of how big players performed, I was surprised John Kiely took Aaron Gillane off: he wasnât on fire from play but he was certainly causing Cork problems at the back. Sean OâDonoghue had to come off after picking up a yellow card, and I would have thought Limerick would leave Aaron on to see whoâd pick him up and to test his marker out. It wasnât a decisive switch, and it worked out for Limerick because Gearoid Hegarty and Peter Casey were able to chip in with scores anyway, but it was still a surprise.
Attention now turns to the All-Ireland series, of course. Cork will face Offaly, who have made huge strides in recent years. Itâs great to see them back at the top table because theyâre a fantastic hurling county, but Cork will expect to win this one.
Theyâre far more experienced and are at a higher stage of development than Offaly, and â even allowing for the misfires Sunday â they have huge attacking power. Thatâs not knocking Offaly, who will get better and better as their team matures and gains experience, but Iâd expect Cork to make the All-Ireland semi-final.
In the other quarter-final Clare will take on Dublin, which is a very interesting one. I hear people saying that Clare are coming into this one fresh, but if Clare werenât fresh coming out of the second division of the league I donât think theyâll be any fresher now.
Theyâve had a good break to get ready for this game, but are we giving them credit that they havenât earned in their performances this year? I still expect them to beat Dublin because the latter are down players through injury after the Leinster final last Saturday. Theyâll also be very disappointed after their showing in that game, and itâs a big ask to pick it up now again.
For that reason, I expect Clare to have too much of them, but this expectation that thereâs a sting in the BannerâŚI think theyâd want to have shown that sting a long time before now. On paper they still have terrific players and huge potential, but against the two best teams in Munster they never really raised a gallop.
Winning Munster will give Limerick a good boost - they celebrated winning and celebrated well, just as Cork did last year. Thatâs important - the game is taken very seriously, but you should also celebrate the fact that youâve won silverware.
Last year there was some discussion of the songs being sung by Cork in Charleville after winning the Munster final - I donât really remember the details, to be honest - but Iâd expect plenty of discussion about Limerick planting a flag in the middle of the Pairc Ui Chaoimh pitch after the game on Sunday, a bit of a call-back to Graeme Souness planting the Galatasaray flag against Fenerbahce.
I havenât seen that done before, and itâs something that could come up in Cork team talks in the future. People forget that Souness himself later regretted doing that, by the way.
Whether or which, if these two meet again later in the championship, which a lot of people are talking about, then itâll be even tastier.
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