I’d disagree with you. 99 team had some superb footballers and they just didn’t perform on the day and fell to a Trevor Giles gladiator like display.That 99 team was bang average you could argue the toss tgat he got them as far as he could . Corkery was sick that time he’s as much as said in Tomas o se podcast . Remember the 99 county final v Ucc he was down a few times getting air . To be fair he came back after a better player in 2000 with a structured fitness regime
On Larry as a coach , Mark O Sullivan, who had a nightmare in the ‘99 final put it all very well to The Examiner a few years back.
“O'Sullivan spoke of Cork's challenging training schedule under then Cork manager Larry Tompkins and revealed how his county career came to an end in early 2002.
"I walked into Páirc Uí Rinn and Martin Cronin from Nemo was with me," he said. "Larry handed us out an A4 sheet of paper. It was the training schedule for April and May I think of that year. I knew looking at it that my career was over.
"He went through it and in typical Larry fashion it was like, 'Okay, so we're training Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, a break Thursday, we're training Friday, Saturday, and Sunday'. And this was it for a whole month. Then he finished off with the killer line, 'I left Thursdays open so you could train with your club!' I was like, 'Ah here, now, seven days a week...'"