Cork Footballers

[CORK1990]

Brian Hayes is still v young great prospect...I would have liked Brian Hartnett to be there a big loss there is bit of edge to him.. one of the many injured of course.

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

2 of those 3 afaik were asked in after the club c'ship concluded but declined

Sam Ryan opted out for personal reasons which is fair enough.

 

[Noelie10]

Liam O Donovan the standout from clon who inevitably will play next year. Off the bat now, having watched a lot of club games through the great work of the examiner for me two of the best defenders in the club championship were Sam Ryan - Barrs and Sean Wilson - Douglas. Neither of whom are involved and add David Lowney to that list you are missing top talent

Thought he was showing serious promise back in 2018/19 as a tight corner back, but hasn't seemed to be involved the past few years . Has he been injured?

 

[cactus jack]

surprisingly decent seats still available for Saturday, middle of the lower Hogan and Cusack. Dubs not bothering with a foregone conclusion?

 

[jams]

surprisingly decent seats still available for Saturday, middle of the lower Hogan and Cusack. Dubs not bothering with a foregone conclusion?

I’m getting fuck all on my ’fuckit, you know this could be ok’ vibe.

 

[Bogroad]

Thought he was showing serious promise back in 2018/19 as a tight corner back, but hasn't seemed to be involved the past few years . Has he been injured?

Very unlucky with injuries. Got a serious knee injury at the beginning of covid I believe, may have been cruciate?

 

[junior footballer]

I’m getting fuck all on my ’fuckit, you know this could be ok’ vibe.

Let’s keep it that way, you nearly fucked us before the limerick game

 

[jams]

Let’s keep it that way, you nearly fucked us before the limerick game

The Limerick game was all under fucking control all the fucking time.
we‘re fucked here.

 

[junior footballer]

The Limerick game was all under fucking control all the fucking time.
we‘re fucked here.

That’s more like it ?

 

[DougMM]

Realistically Dublin will want to put this game to bed early and will chase goals early. Look at game vs Kildare as example. Keeping it tight for first quarter is vital if we have any chance.

I’d be seriously nervous of our kickouts and the full press Dublin will put on us forcing us long. I think we won 50% of our long kick outs vs Limerick? Dublin will target us here I think. I said earlier I’d expect Hayes to start for the size he brings, Paul Walsh and O Hanlon also options too.
The current half forward line are all a bit too similar so wouldn’t be surprised if we saw two changes here. The Dubs half back line from the Leinster Final was McCarthy Howard Small. I think we need size here

Shanley on Con
Maguire on Kilkenny
Martin
KOD MS SP
SM
MT RM JC
IM COC
PW JOR BH
SS BH

Toss up between JOR and McSweeney but feel McSweeney can take the ball down blind alleys at times

I Don’t expect PW to start based on the red card the last day so perhaps KOH comes in

Having been to the last few games I don’t think the full forward line of O Mahony / Sherlock / Hurley works well as a unit and someone has to give..3 into 2 spots the way I’m looking at it

Meehan for me is a difficult one as he’s such an important player to us but has had a bad injury. I think he will want to play if he’s any way fit so wouldn’t be surprised to see him come into the side

Great post. Agree on setting up defensively, particularly on Dublin’s kick-outs.

On our kick-outs, I think we’ll be in big trouble if we start hitting 50-50 high balls on top of the Dublin midfield. Dublin’s biggest strength is their kick-out press and they’ve cleaned out teams with better midfields than Cork.

We need Dublin to play on our terms and not vice versa. We’ve generally done well when we’ve been able to win the short kick-outs, so unless Dublin are willing to commit 11/12 players into the Cork half, we should be going short all game. Bring 12 Cork players into the Cork half if needs be. If the Dublin players are willing to follow them back, then there should be plenty of space in the Dublin half-back/midfield line for kick-outs, and we might be able to find mismatches with Hayes or O’Callaghan having plenty of space in front of them. We should be trying to penalize Dublin with goals, when they get too aggressive on their kick-out press.

If we get the kick-outs right, then I genuinely think we have a chance of an upset. We were only a point behind Kerry with 20 minutes left in the Munster semi-final, despite not having any real kick-out strategy.