True, but in any sport people largely donāt give a fuck about the back door/qualifier stuff unless your team is directly involved. 2 losses and you are out is pretty standard.
Unless its a league or knockout competition :rolleyes:
Stalking me from thread to thread now. 
No hard feelings mate. Tis all about whatās best for east corkā¦
Rose tinted glasses nostalgia bullshit.
couldnāt have got a better draw really. Tough opposition, but not as good as last year, neutral venue (probably Croker). Cork will beat them with a bit to spare this time.
95/96 CR Smith wonky hoops is generally my choice but I have graduated recently to the Nike sponsorless 2007 long sleeve Lisbon Lions 40th anniversary top which I picked up for Ā£10 in the Celtic club shop. The swoosh makes me feel more at one with the pram pushing junkies outside the chipper. I generally match this with a sky blue and navy polka dot sarong, a Greg Lemond era Z Peugeot cycling top and knee high red and black Doc Marten boots.
A word for Micko, the old rogue. Still at it after all these years 
Well we made it out of Croke Park by the skin of out teeth. Dublin were awful but Wexford I thought played good football and were on top until that own goal, what the hell were they thinking. Brosnan I thought had a great game as well as Bradley who ran things from midfield.
Gilroy I thought beofre the match had made a mistake at midfield in pairing Bastick and Fennell together, I thought we would struggle there as they are not the 2 most mobile of players, I felt it that Cahill should have started with either of Bastick or Fennall. The forwards were shocking yesterday, I though Alan Brogan had a good game with lots of intelligent running but the rest where non existant, at one stage Connolly was playing centre half back and in another attack in the first half not one Dublin player was beyond the 21 yard line. If Gilroy is going to persist with this 2 man full forward line then he will need to play another scoring forward in there with B Brogan. There is no point in playing the likes of OāGara in there because he is not going to give defenders something to think about, all defences have to do is mark B Brogan and Dublin will struggle. Connolly I think is the best of a bad bunch and should be told to stay in there with Brogan at least he can score. Itās time Gilroy calls time on starting OāGara, maybe introduce him in the closing stages of a game but there is no way that he should start. Why did he bring on Mossy Quinn, he did nothing for the time he was on? His days are numbered.
Our over all general play was shite, we didnāt win any breaking ball, I dont think, every time a ball broke there was a Wexford player there to pick up the ball. Cullen and Flynn were non existant in the game. Macmanamon and Cahill both made good impacts when they came one. Our defence were too loose on the Wexford players, I half back line was dreadful and I thought Conlon had a bit of a dodgy game in the corner and made a couple of tackles where he could have seen red in another game. I thought Fitzsimons was our best performing back of the day.
Based on that display yesterday we are going to struggle against the tougher teams that we are going to be coming up against in the quarters. Gilroy will need to get this system sorted between now and then.
Add Eoin Bradley to the list of cruciate victims.
Thats Derry fucked so.
Back in my day there was no such thing as cruciate ligaments.
Or shin splints, did you ever hear the like of it
:o
What was it Paddy Bradley was laid up with? It wasnāt ACL also was it?
Agreed with much of that analysis Taz.
The forward structure was particularly disappointing because Gilroy looks no closer to solving a long-running problem now than he was a year ago. Thereās little point in persisiting with OāGara and thereās certainly little point in having him roaming about the pich as he did for spells yesterday. The ball in to Brogan was too predictable and though his kicking was wayward Iād have some sympathy with him given the reliance we placed on him as a shooting outlet - nevermind a scoring one.
Connolly was disappointing but heās not a half forward at this level and at least provides a goal threat when played in full forward line.
Agreed on the two subs making an impact. Good to have on the bench and everything but not when we have inferior players and partnerships starting.
Not sure I fully agree on the breaking ball. We picked up a lot in the first half with Flynn and Nolan doing ok in that respect I thought but whatever advantages we had in the physical battles around the middle were completely gone in the second half.
The odd fella might have had a ābad kneeā but sure it was nothing a few bandages wouldnāt sort out.
Thatās the problem with the young fellas these days. Too soft.
Weād often have 40 miles cycled just to get to the match, before we even lifted a hurley.
I was the guy with the bad knees and I did get shin splints once, but the doctor gave me a few exercises to do and that was it. Shin splints usually happened when the ground conditions changed like going from soft to hard ground.
There has to be something wrong with either football boots or something with all these cruciate ligament injuries. I dont remember it happening too much when I was playing a few years ago but that was when you only have a choice of molded studs or screw in studs, none of these blade things. Not saying cruciate injuries didnāt happen but they didnāt seem to happen as much.
i heard that blades are banned at old trafford as studies showed that there was a correlation between these and ACL, something to do with fact that blades gripped the ground too well and essentially āsnaps the kneeā.
Iād like to see some stats on the wearing of the blades and knee or groin injuries.
A man involved with an intercounty set up (Iām sounding like Kev here) told me he reckoned that they were a contributing factor to a lot of injuries.