player ratings

[nawfullanger]

1. donal og. (5) Must take his share of the blame for wayward pucks outs. one good save form a point attempt but otherwise untested.
2. brian murphy. (8) on clares best forward at the start and put him into his pocket. fair dues to the selectors for not moving him when everybody else was calling for it. thats why they are in there and we are out here.
3. Diarmuid O'S (4) shocking. plain and simple. his best move of the day was smeering himslef with vaseline.
4. Pat mul (5) poor without being a liability. has more in hm and will come good.
5. gardiner. (6) not as good as his own high standards but played well. shows you how dependable he is when he played less than is capabale of and was still effective.
6. curran. (8) best back on show. made a mockery of everything i said about him last year. bualla bus.
7. sean og (6) started very slowly but came into it. will need to improve though.
8 & 9 tom and gerry (7) came in and out like the sun. overall played well and got a few scores.
10 timmy. (6) good second half after being completely out of it in the first. gave his marker enough to think about.
11. Niall (Fitz) Mc (5) after 5 miniutes i thought he was going to do the devil and all. faded out to become invisible and was moved to the corner.
12. cian o'connor (4) i say the man that o'connor plesed the most was ben o'connor. a boy among men.
13. who played there again? (0) i can't rememeber he was so innefective.
14. The legend. (7) gave it all until the legs gave out. why does't niall mac look at him and say "i want to be like him".
15. Joe. (9) shaded curran for man of the match in my book. tour de force. hats off the the wee man.

[Lamps]

good ratings, pretty much agree with them all but i'd have put mul and sully a bit higher and timmy on 5 at best, fumbled a great chance and lost all his 50/50's as usual

[MonTheHoops]

Surelt Neil Ronan is a good shout to start in Timmy's place for the final.

[nawfullanger]

good ratings, pretty much agree with them all but i'd have put mul and sully a bit higher and timmy on 5 at best, fumbled a great chance and lost all his 50/50's as usual

i was actually tempted to rate DOS lower. he really needs to get his act togeather. if he didnt have brian murphy and pal mul with him he'd be a big liability.

you could rate pal mul higher alright beacuse he did finish well and in the first half clare played every ball to nugent even after brian murphy got on top of him.

i didnt think timmy did that badly. i agree he made a lot of errors in the first half but kept the ball mov in the second half. and to be fair to him, he dosn't make it easy for defenders to clear the ball.

[POL]

Get Sully out of that team, put in Wayne Sherlock in that full back line and Cork will walk the All Ireland, there's only so far you can go with that lad before he'll get caught out and cost them a game

[Lamps]

I don't think Sully has ever started a munster championship in good form, in all the recent openers he has been a bit dodgy but generally improves with every game. I think the same will happen this year

He had a bad first half yesterday and i couldn't judge the second as he was too far away. On paper and on current form, Pat Mul at full back would probably appear to be a better option, with sherlock the man for eoin kelly in the final. It won't happen though.

How Kieran Murphy (sars) and Timmy Mac are keeping out Neil Ronan is a mystery to me, as soon as ronan came on yesterday he was a scoring threat.

[PermanentMarker]

I think the ratings are harsh especially for Tom and Gerry. They were both fantastic. I'd definitely give Kenny 8. The tracking back the pair do to help the half backs is hugely important - their fitness is incredible.

I kept an eye on Kieran Murphy for a lot of the game and while I don't think he shone like some of the other forwards the work himself and Tommy Mac do hassling defenders while they're trying to get clean ball up to their forwards is incredible. It takes a huge amount of pressure off the Cork backline. The blocking and hooking work that Cork do is amazing. I'd like to see Neil Ronan on from the start next time instead of KM.

While I'd also be a bit worried about Sully (the jersey pulling was stupid and he was lucky not to get at least a yellow but it might have prevented a goal) you can't under estimate the power of playing people who know each other so well together regularly.

Sherlock hasn't played much championship games and wouldn't have as much experience playing in front of Donal Óg. The key for Cork seems to be sticking with the same team as often as possible and you can be sure that won't change for the Munster final.

[POL]

I was watching Sully, he was constantly fouling the full forward before the ball came in, its only a matter of time before another ref susses this out

[nawfullanger]

I was watching Sully, he was constantly fouling the full forward before the ball came in, its only a matter of time before another ref susses this out

agreed wholeheartedly.

less vaseline more stickwork methinks.

[POL]

whats the story with the vaseline like? he looks like a bit of a tool with it smeared all over him

[norrie rugger head]

i hope that everyone here has been to every league match
or are you all bandwagon jumpers

cork is a sham as a sporting entity, do you all go to the cork soccer matches, do you supoprt the cork rings team??

[Lamps]

i hope that everyone here has been to every league match
or are you all bandwagon jumpers

cork is a sham as a sporting entity, do you all go to the cork soccer matches, do you supoprt the cork rings team??

No dice funboy, the jock fraternity may fall for this type of shit but not the intellectual elite of this forum. As bait goes its down there with poxoid and the shit stuffed mullet he eats for this tea.

Do you know I once heard ROG calling some young fella a norrie on oliver plunkett street?

[FL4ZGN]

Do you know I once heard ROG calling some young fella a norrie on oliver plunkett street?

heh heh heh

[Eoin]

Get Sully out of that team, put in Wayne Sherlock in that full back line and Cork will walk the All Ireland, there's only so far you can go with that lad before he'll get caught out and cost them a game

It's amazing that Sherlock is on the bench, he'd walk onto any other team in the country.

[Lamps]

heh heh heh

you wouldn't get ronan curran at this kind of stuff

[norrie rugger head]

No dice funboy, the jock fraternity may fall for this type of shit but not the intellectual elite of this forum. As bait goes its down there with poxoid and the shit stuffed mullet he eats for this tea.

Do you know I once heard ROG calling some young fella a norrie on oliver plunkett street?


well at least you agree it is shit

i call my self a norrie? porblem there is?


most "fans" are band wagon jumpers. yesterday wasnot a sell out. both semi final games vs wexford couple years back had 70,000 and 50,000. yet tickets were imposible to get for the final
same goes with every sport
no bait, just honest assessment

[BlueSkies]

70,000 is a pretty good crowd, and the replay was on a Saturday which wasn't ideal for most people.

[norrie rugger head]

70,000 is a pretty good crowd, and the replay was on a Saturday which wasn't ideal for most people.


i agree it is a good crowd
but the final is then sold out and tickets go corporate
people who have no real interest in hurling get to go and jump on the band wagon

[nawfullanger]

It's amazing that Sherlock is on the bench, he'd walk onto any other team in the country.

yerra who wants a cork team made up of players only capable of getting onto tipperary and other backwater teams. we have our own standards biy.

[emurf]

Surelt Neil Ronan is a good shout to start in Timmy's place for the final.
What ? Are u saying Kieran Murphy will keep his place. Timmy didn't get half the balls Murphy got and as for the one he dropped anyone travelling at that speed could have dropped a ball that came off a stick instead of getting a decent handpass

[storysham]

whats the story with the vaseline like? he looks like a bit of a tool with it smeared all over him

hes a sweaty cunt, it stops the brow sweat going into his eyes.

[nawfullanger]

hes a sweaty cunt, it stops the brow sweat going into his eyes.

he found a far better way of keeping keeping sweat out of his eyes - he doesn't build up a sweat in the first place.

the vaseline must be for something else altogeather.