2025 Premier Senior Football Championship

[Hill Street Blue]

It was a depressing experience yesterday having to sit through those 2 games. Based on yesterday the future for Cork football is bleak. As others have said, the refereeing was poor: the crowd was non existent ( was there 3,000 there)- so why play the games in a 45,000 stadium. Most worryingly though, the standard of football was very poor. The first half of the Barrs game was up there with the worst 30 minutes of football I’ve seen. Yes the Barrs improved significantly in the second half after getting the hairdryer treatment at ht. Nemo played very poorly for most of the second half but still managed to scrape home. Probably as poor a Nemo forward unit as I’ve ever seen. Bleak times for Cork football I’m afraid.

 

[Redneck]

What’s the definition of a soft free?
It could have been anyone reffing the first game and nemo would have been giving out, they looked like a team that were trying to find an excuse for playing poorly

From what I saw now in fairness he nearly blew the whistle for a free anytime a Nemo player put in a tackle, ruined the game. On the other hand the newcestown lads were laying into nemo and no frees given. Nonetheless nemo were poor so no excuse.

 

[Fox Leary]

It was a depressing experience yesterday having to sit through those 2 games. Based on yesterday the future for Cork football is bleak. As others have said, the refereeing was poor: the crowd was non existent ( was there 3,000 there)- so why play the games in a 45,000 stadium. Most worryingly though, the standard of football was very poor. The first half of the Barrs game was up there with the worst 30 minutes of football I’ve seen. Yes the Barrs improved significantly in the second half after getting the hairdryer treatment at ht. Nemo played very poorly for most of the second half but still managed to scrape home. Probably as poor a Nemo forward unit as I’ve ever seen. Bleak times for Cork football I’m afraid.

I predicted it would be a paltry turnout. It was inevitable when the 2 best supported of the big 4 teams (Clon and the Haven) were both eliminated.
The dream semi was Clon vs Nemo and Haven vs Barrs, that would have attracted 10-15k spectators and as many predicted the dream Clon-Haven final would have brought 25-30k through the gate.
City teams like Nemo and the Barrs are very poorly supported, it's a credit to the players that they can maintain motivation when clearly the vast majority of their communities couldn't give a shite about the club and probably couldn't even tell you where the club house is. Newcestown brought a bit of colour and excitement to the day, football just seems to mean more in West Cork.

 

[Cranky Corner Forwar]

It was a depressing experience yesterday having to sit through those 2 games. Based on yesterday the future for Cork football is bleak. As others have said, the refereeing was poor: the crowd was non existent ( was there 3,000 there)- so why play the games in a 45,000 stadium. Most worryingly though, the standard of football was very poor. The first half of the Barrs game was up there with the worst 30 minutes of football I’ve seen. Yes the Barrs improved significantly in the second half after getting the hairdryer treatment at ht. Nemo played very poorly for most of the second half but still managed to scrape home. Probably as poor a Nemo forward unit as I’ve ever seen. Bleak times for Cork football I’m afraid.

Standard at Premier Senior is god awful and has been for a long time..when the likes of St Michael's, Douglas, Valleys are only there to make up the numbers then you have serious issues..much better standard at Senior A and Prem Intermediate

 

[Megelus]

I predicted it would be a paltry turnout. It was inevitable when the 2 best supported of the big 4 teams (Clon and the Haven) were both eliminated.
The dream semi was Clon vs Nemo and Haven vs Barrs, that would have attracted 10-15k spectators and as many predicted the dream Clon-Haven final would have brought 25-30k through the gate.
City teams like Nemo and the Barrs are very poorly supported, it's a credit to the players that they can maintain motivation when clearly the vast majority of their communities couldn't give a shite about the club and probably couldn't even tell you where the club house is. Newcestown brought a bit of colour and excitement to the day, football just seems to mean more in West Cork.

What I'm hearing is that it is a credit to Nemo and the Barrs that such small local parish clubs can consistently show their footballing superiority over large ponderous clubs who have plenty of bodies but no football

 

[Megelus]

It was a depressing experience yesterday having to sit through those 2 games. Based on yesterday the future for Cork football is bleak. As others have said, the refereeing was poor: the crowd was non existent ( was there 3,000 there)- so why play the games in a 45,000 stadium. Most worryingly though, the standard of football was very poor. The first half of the Barrs game was up there with the worst 30 minutes of football I’ve seen. Yes the Barrs improved significantly in the second half after getting the hairdryer treatment at ht. Nemo played very poorly for most of the second half but still managed to scrape home. Probably as poor a Nemo forward unit as I’ve ever seen. Bleak times for Cork football I’m afraid.

Agreed, the standards of Nemo, Castlehaven and the Barrs are higher but are unfortunately regressing rather than the standards of the other teams progressing

 

[Redneck]

I predicted it would be a paltry turnout. It was inevitable when the 2 best supported of the big 4 teams (Clon and the Haven) were both eliminated.
The dream semi was Clon vs Nemo and Haven vs Barrs, that would have attracted 10-15k spectators and as many predicted the dream Clon-Haven final would have brought 25-30k through the gate.
City teams like Nemo and the Barrs are very poorly supported, it's a credit to the players that they can maintain motivation when clearly the vast majority of their communities couldn't give a shite about the club and probably couldn't even tell you where the club house is. Newcestown brought a bit of colour and excitement to the day, football just seems to mean more in West Cork.

You love the haven for a clon man.

 

[bluesball]

3-4k would be average for a league game,was not surprised by size of crowd,last weeks crowd for the hurling was small considering the average attendance for league games this year was 20k.

 

[bluesball]

5 finals coming up and the participants are 3 from Seandun,3 from Muskerry and 1 each from Avondhu and Duhallow.
Would it be appropriate to have a minutes silence before the senior final for the death of football in Carbery.

 

[Megelus]

5 finals coming up and the participants are 3 from Seandun,3 from Muskerry and 1 each from Avondhu and Duhallow.
Would it be appropriate to have a minutes silence before the senior final for the death of football in Carbery.

Better make it a minute and a half. One of them was time wasting for about half it