Cork Footballers

[Evergreen]

Just watching bits of the game there again. Flahive should be dropped from the panel for that smack he gave the steward. Disgraceful.

Young powerful athlete belting an old guy ffs.

An average player..what a ?to do that to the steward...if he where an ice cream he lick himself

 

[cork2030]

I don't think anyone was expecting miracles but we won 3 games out of 4 in division 2 last year, in admittedly different circumstances, but people are entitled to raise an eyebrow at what's going on.

That said given the turnover in players and management over the last decade and the 'new lows' that seem to be hit every year I think 3 or 4 years of relative continuity , especially regarding conditioning might be the only thing left worth trying. And with the hurlers going well they'll probably be left alone to do it as it's doubtful the board will lose too much sleep over the footballers is the depressing truth.

We are in year 4 of the county boards 5 year plan. https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/ga...to-become-football-contenders-again-1.3752426

Under normal circumstances Cork should be playing some of there league games in Clon, probably can't do it with the debt on the Pairc and the 10 year tickets.

 

[CORK1990]

Brian Hartnett had a very good year last year in his first year involved like many others has in jury problems this year ...
We simply have to win our next two games going to div 3 and the Tailteann Cup equals disaster put us back more years and lets face it does Keith Ricken want to go down as the manager behind the first Cork football team neaver to play for the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in history not very good for the CV.
Sad days for Cork Football but you get the feeling that nobody realy cares at the top , as someone has already said this sport is not taken as serious as Hurling, Soccer and Rugby in this County because if it was we would be a Div 1 county at all times at the very least.

 

[Shabby]

I don't think anyone was expecting miracles but we won 3 games out of 4 in division 2 last year, in admittedly different circumstances, but people are entitled to raise an eyebrow at what's going on.

That said given the turnover in players and management over the last decade and the 'new lows' that seem to be hit every year I think 3 or 4 years of relative continuity , especially regarding conditioning might be the only thing left worth trying. And with the hurlers going well they'll probably be left alone to do it as it's doubtful the board will lose too much sleep over the footballers is the depressing truth.

I’m not sure there’s a better solution in Cork than Ricken. Not someone substantially better anyway I’d say but he’s been picked now, is insisting on giving youth a go and that will most certainly require plenty of time as they most certainly need a lot of conditioning work among other things.

He could maybe have kept a few of the older, strong players like Deane around. Deane wasn’t a world beater but he is powerful and we’d certainly do with him around the middle now. He possibly wrote off one or two a bit soon and other managements before him did similar and went down badly after it.

The return of O’Mahony was the only bright point of today. He looked fit and he looked fairly sharp. Hopefully he can progress further and help to get a win against Down next weekend.

 

[Boom Boom Boy]

I don't think anyone was expecting miracles but we won 3 games out of 4 in division 2 last year, in admittedly different circumstances, but people are entitled to raise an eyebrow at what's going on.

That said given the turnover in players and management over the last decade and the 'new lows' that seem to be hit every year I think 3 or 4 years of relative continuity , especially regarding conditioning might be the only thing left worth trying. And with the hurlers going well they'll probably be left alone to do it as it's doubtful the board will lose too much sleep over the footballers is the depressing truth.

Just for some context, last year, with a far far stronger panel, we beat Westmeath & Laois, both of whom were subsequently relegated to Div 3 and currently are in 3rd and 5th place in that, and we beat Clare by a point, who we drew with this year, we actually threw it away conceding late scores when winning.

Yes, its very disappointing all round atm, the performance levels are way off where we need to be, anyone who follows Cork football will be very worried. I for one was blindsided bigtime by the withdrawal of guys in their early mid 20s from the panel. Maybe I didn't fully realise how bad an experience the players had over the last year or so.

The heart is hoping for two big performances from Cork in the next two games from the players that are available, a win next week would be a massive shot in the arm facing into the away game with Offaly, looking at what's left to pick from atm though the head says its unlikely but not impossible. If we don't get a definitive defensive structure (plus 1 isn't enough imo atm) in place for next week it could be another shoot out re Galway game.

 

[Yorkman]

Hopefully but the players confidence must be very low at the moment. They’re in a no win situation, beat Down and Offaly and that’s expected, lose and get relegated. I still admire those playing for at least trying

 

[Corks finest]

The problem with getting it as badly wrong as this group have in 2022 is that your set up totally fucked the following year playing division 3 and glorified Tommy Murphy cup, so in your words Hank 2023 was always going to be a write off.
The team is a shambles, it’s surely not too much to hope that a cork football team could do the basics like defend in a system and work their kickouts? We’ve heard a lot about fitness but it certainly isn’t getting better quick anyway never mind that incredibly we seem to have accelerated our injury count….now why is that? As a sign of how bad things are we have had 5 league games and 5 centre backs…..thats farcical stuff….. competitive in division 2 is surely not beyond a decently prepared cork team? Not winning or getting promoted but keeping it kicked out to the likes of Meath and Roscommon , we have been miles off the pace in every facet of the game so far with the possible exception of Clare who must be kicking themselves for dropping a point to cork -a coherent game plan with committed players and work from there would be a start but too late now it seems

Great post?Echo tbh didn’t take any positives from this display thankfully
Seriously need to look well outside tbe county for a whole different management team
( next time out as it’s clearly not working
Brian Cuthbert for me was the man until they poisoned him with character assassination etc)

 

[Corks finest]

Hopefully but the players confidence must be very low at the moment. They’re in a no win situation, beat Down and Offaly and that’s expected, lose and get relegated. I still admire those playing for at least trying

The basics weren’t adhered to
Injuries killed us but the simple stuff we got wrong

 

[bluesball]

one thing i noticed yesterday is that Meath have not changed the are still filthy.

 

[Corks finest]

Filthy bastards Similarly commented on same yesterday on another forum But tbh we were pussies