Brolly says that Donal Og destroyed Cork GAA with the strike and itās basically his fault they lost at the weekend.
Bizarre auld rant from a man who is turning into an awful stones of a fella altogether.
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There is a nastiness to brolly at times. Singling out Donal og is odd. In fairness to Donal og he called Puc a white elephant and wanted development pitches done instead a decade or so ago.
On another point Dion fanning has been doing absolutely outstanding Saturday podcasts for the last few months.
Each and every one of them are worth going back and listening to.
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Where would you find them?
They appear on the same podcast as the ones with brolly. Just get uploaded on Saturdays. Itās only Dion interviewing.
Thanks. Iāll give them a go.
Ah Cusack is an utter bollocks. A snake. But Brolly dislikes him only because he sees a more modern version of his own snakeiness and resents it. Cusack is still on the Sunday game to spout his shite and Brolly isnāt.
I donāt like cusack either but brolly can turn nasty at times. The stuff with Clifford in 2019 was similar.
Whatās the gist of the Saturday ones?
Why do you think heās a snake? I can see why people donāt like him but hes a real straight up type of fella surely if obviously fairly arrogant. He gets no credit for it but coming out as gay while still playing gaa was unbelievably brave in fairness. As evidenced by how few in any sport have done it since.
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Iād agree with that. It was a really courageous thing for Cusack to do at the time. Brolly is way out of line here. The strike is completely irrelevant to last Sundays match. Sure Limerick had a strike and have one 5 all Irelands since.
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Joe: Azerbaijan scored more points in the euro vision than cork scored in the second half.
Dion: itās not a like for like comparison
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Wasnāt the strike over being allowed to pick your own selectors ?
I think the first one was over expenses and player welfare type stuff.
The first one was justified I think due to welfare. I remember reading that a player got split v Derry and had to travel back with the team because the board wouldnāt pay for him to stay up and get seen too.
They players signed up to the GPA the year before the strike and I think Landers was told by a selector that heād never see the inside of the Pairc again because heād signed up.
The other two were ego.
That was Meyler.
John Meyler told him that but fairly sure it had nothing to do with GPA
Well exactly
The last strike was mainly personal. The earlier strikes had created such massive resentment that - and as much as I dislike Cusack - the board were as willing as he was to drag Cork hurling through the mud to win.
I knew a Cork player who a relative young lad on the panel at the time and his take was there was no real option but to go along with it. That most of the players (in his mind) would have rathered play than endure the circus that followed, but Cusack was behind the wheel and the other big names were with him.
Cusack wasnāt in the wrong necessarily but it wasnāt worth the damage it did. Like Brolly, Cusack was well able to spin his personal grievances as a moral crusade much bigger than the petty squabble behind it all. In another time heād have gone very far in the priesthood.
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Cork also won an all Ireland since the strikes. It wasnāt hurling but Joe seems to have forgotten we play both codes ( and both codes were involved in the strike)
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The strike that was damaging to Cork hurling was the last one in 2009 over the reappointment of Gerald McCarthy as manager.