Cork Footballers

[cooldude]

Don---

 

[jams]

He certainly has an eye for a pass, point or goal. He needs to tidy up his general play and work harder in many aspects but in the league we are in, he can be more than useful.

But this is like a trend with Cork. The strong and athletic guys can’t kick it and the good kickers aren’t strong or athletic enough. One a bare few meet all the criteria for a top player.

about 1 in 5 come off though, and when it does it's spectacular.

some of Saturday's stuff was abject - now maybe he's rusty and all.

 

[Johnny1]

about 1 in 5 come off though, and when it does it's spectacular.

some of Saturday's stuff was abject - now maybe he's rusty and all.

Yes it probably was first outing in a while after being knocked out early with Nemo. That one spectacular pass is what makes the difference in games though

 

[jams]

Yes it probably was first outing in a while after being knocked out early with Nemo. That one spectacular pass is what makes the difference in games though

not if the other 4 out of 5 are heartbreaking.

 

[Shabby]

about 1 in 5 come off though, and when it does it's spectacular.

some of Saturday's stuff was abject - now maybe he's rusty and all.

If the alternative is someone who is powerful but has no eye for a pass or doesn’t have the skill to pull off a good pass then I’m not sure I want that.

Connolly is a more than useful player to have on the panel. He won’t be required every game but I’m sick of looking at big lads running around and going backwards with handpasses.

 

[jams]

If the alternative is someone who is powerful but has no eye for a pass or doesn’t have the skill to pull off a good pass then I’m not sure I want that.

Connolly is a more than useful player to have on the panel. He won’t be required every game but I’m sick of looking at big lads running around and going backwards with handpasses.

I'm feeling this...

 

[Johnny1]

If the alternative is someone who is powerful but has no eye for a pass or doesn’t have the skill to pull off a good pass then I’m not sure I want that.

Connolly is a more than useful player to have on the panel. He won’t be required every game but I’m sick of looking at big lads running around and going backwards with handpasses.

All forwards should be able to kick a ball it’s a joke that there is still players out there in the forward line who can’t. O’Donovan and O’Callaghan both in the forward line on Saturday was a joke. O’Donovan is a brilliant player but not as a forward he is a wing back

 

[junior footballer]

give me a hard working athlete with a selfless attitude and willingness to work his arse off any day, especially one who can be coached and made better then a player who simply doesn’t contribute anywhere near enough at this level, there is no other county that would carry a player with that attitude.

 

[JPMal123]

Yes it probably was first outing in a while after being knocked out early with Nemo. That one spectacular pass is what makes the difference in games though

You don’t get extra points for aesthetics unfortunately. Every second pass or shot with Connolly is a Hail Mary. That kind of wastefulness is a killer at inter county level.

He’d be eaten alive in a serious set-up. Look at Gavin’s Dublin, the benchmark for all football teams, playing the percentages was the name of the game, you didn’t shoot unless you knew you could score, you didn’t pass unless you knew it would be completed. B Brogan talked before about Davy Byrne getting torn to shreds in a video session because he took a speculative shot ONCE in a game. Connolly does that kind of thing a couple of times every game.

He wouldn’t last a week in an elite team. If Ricken ever manages to get this team challenging at the top table again, I can guarantee you one thing, Luke Connolly won’t be there. Guys like that don’t exist in that stratosphere.

 

[dunmore]

maybe Ricken can coach some consistency and teamwork in him.