Lads this is the worst panel we have had in years and that saying something.Not 1 bright prospect coming through.We will be lucky to stay mid table at best.What is shocking is not a word from County board about the state of football in Cork.Our schools are hammered year in year out not sure what coaches they send in there.Club stanard is just awful.The problem is Hurling will always be number 1 with our County board.30 years ago a separte football board should have been set up to promote and safe guard Cork Football through Coaching etc and putting the right people in Charge.When you have a board full of mostly hurling first club people how can football get a say at all it all a joke really.
There is points I agree with here tbh.
There is and was bright prospects coming through and factors that have effected that are hurling, injury or omission/leaving panel.
Other issue as you say is County Board and their 5 Year plan that didn't exactly work.
Separate Board could have been a complete disaster as well and could have done more damage tbh.
Putting right people in charge is definitely a huge factor, I believe tho a lot of previous football managers are not held to the same standards of their hurling counterpart.
Between retirements/travel/personal choice over the last few years is a huge issue and it's not being addressed at all. Imagine that much fellas walked from the hurling panel? There'd be a Garda Investigation.
Fellas are leaving the Football panel to bate the band a lot of us know the issue(s) yet the powers that be have the attitude of if we don't talk about it, it's not an issue.
People hammer Rebel Og and some of it is over the top in my opinion. Yes definitely room for improvement but I think it's better than the old set up. Speaking from my Division of Seandun go back nearly 20 years ago they used nearly have a panel of 40 at age groups and it never got cut or they'd try to enter 2 teams and have 50-60 then.
Now it's City and East and they carry about 30ish on the business end of things.
When it went into the Cork Panel U16/Minor there was probably about 5 picked from Seandun or less and the reason was West Cork Mafia - it definitely still exists today across all age groups.
