Cork Footballers

[under study]

peopleluas

Those Cork wins you refer were achieved on the back of serious underage talent coming through, 1983 slightly different as there were more older players who had shone beforehand. The standard of underage in Cork is now poor and there has been a waste of the Minor & U-20 AI winning talent from 2019.

Also the GAA hierarchy have Cork on a string as pay back for the strikes not to mind the debt. Both hurlers and footballers are going to have this problem for a long time and our county board, respective managements and supporters are unfortunately in denial mode. Whatever about Cork catching Kerry in Munster there is no hope of it in the AI series. A quarter-final is our lot in Croker for a very long time after coming through the qualifiers I'm afraid.

I would be more optimistic for the footballers if I saw John Cleary delve into attacking talent such as Rhys Coakley, Sean O' Foirreidh, Conor O'Callaghan, Eanna O'Hanlon, Sean McDonnell, Blake Murphy, Alan Walsh, Colin Walsh, Hugh O'Connor and Conor Daly as some of those players should be the future but can we see him show faith in any of those players now? There has to be a caution to the wind approach with flair and skill paramount to attract coaches to drill and young players to practice the bread and butter of the game such as foot passing and kicking skills.

Hopefully the new rules will help us to be more progressive id love to see John Cleary give a chance to the more consistent natural proven finishing forwards in the senior championship for the past few years like obviously Brian Hurley Stephen Sherlock and Mark Cronin and also give Cian Dorgan Cathal O’Mahony Blake Murphy Michael Hurley a chance they have been consistent top performers for the past few years

 

[St fachtna]

If they are exclusively committing to football. A few there are dabbling with hurling at a high enough level as well

 

[Cranky Corner Forwar]

Each of those players you mention deserve a go.

They deserve a go yes but are they willing to commit to the lifestyle of an IC player that is the major question that needs answering

 

[Midcorkgael]

would you please wake up? year after year we talk ourselves up that we will beat kerry, be logical for a minute, who do we have that can mark the 2 clifford’s and sean o sea?

What are you on about have you seen the Clifford's against cork the past number of years. I would say the team David Clifford hates playing against most is Cork. Silly comment

 

[random2404]

What are you on about have you seen the Clifford's against cork the past number of years. I would say the team David Clifford hates playing against most is Cork. Silly comment

Then how have we not been getting near them? we put so much work into stopping one man from playing well only for Kerry’s other 5 forwards to send us home depressed year after year. But hey D Clifford played badly so as a whole Cork football is in a great place right? ??

 

[Midcorkgael]

Then how have we not been getting near them? we put so much work into stopping one man from playing well only for Kerry’s other 5 forwards to send us home depressed year after year. But hey D Clifford played badly so as a whole Cork football is in a great place right? ??

It was man on man last year. Daniel Mahoney one on one so you've probably never watched a game in your entire life.

 

[random2404]

It was man on man last year. Daniel Mahoney one on one so you've probably never watched a game in your entire life.

so if your saying it was man on man are you agreeing with me that we are just simply not good enough yet to compete with them?

 

[CORK4SAM]

It was man on man last year. Daniel Mahoney one on one so you've probably never watched a game in your entire life.

It wasn’t man vs man last year. It was for the first 15/20 mins, then cork dropped a sweeper

 

[Cork99]

We will need a decent free taker with these new rules 45s are worth 2 points
Play Sherlock the whole match he won’t have to do as much running as before

 

[peopleluas]

We will need a decent free taker with these new rules 45s are worth 2 points
Play Sherlock the whole match he won’t have to do as much running as before

Yes, the value of an accurate kicker from distance will increase.

And the importance of a good KO, and a good KO defence, will also increase because there will be more point attempts from distance, and (whether wide of over) thus more KOs in a match.

I wonder about the detail of the new KO rule. The ball has to go beyond the 40 meter arc - so presumably the players have to allow it to do so? Like if a goalie kicks it low against a strong wind, can the opposition run forward and intercept it before it passes the 40 meters, or do they have to wait until it passes the 40m arc before playing it? If the opposition are disallowed from doing that, then what about the rule which allows the goalie to dribble the ball out? - that will probably have to go. I have never seen it used, but under the present rules the goalie does not have to kick the ball once-only - he can dribble it out (he just cannot take it into his hand). With the new rule that it has to be kicked beyond the 40 meter arc, will he be limited to one kick, or can he still dribble it. Imagine the goalie dribbling it out uncontested to just before the 40m arc . Anyway, presumably they will have thought of all that and will probably also change the rule so that the goalie can only give it one kick.

Ah editing this post - I see that the opposition players have to wait until it passes the 40 meter arc before playing the ball. Haha - if they don't also change the rule about allowing the goalie to kick it more than once and advance with the ball then the goalie will be able to dribble it out right to the 40m arc (for sure they'll fix that, but if they don't it'll be funny).