Cork Footballers

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

In an era of really organised development squads and schools systems in other counties, Cork's numbers are nearly counting against us in getting properly alligned and organised, which obviously shouldn't be the case.

Spot on. Geography and numbers is the big problem.
We need to break down into manageable numbers. A more localized approach with better coaching and way less travel for young boys. Most of em even lads on the panel sick of it by 16.
Back to the old divisional/regional approach up to 16 years old for me.
The schools thing will only work in Cork if you have 10-12 hubs. Just a few hotspots dotted across the county would be worse than the current set up.
The hurling is more condensed and might be easier to sort than the football.
At least we are now seeing in the media what most people on the ground have been saying for a decade. Rebel Og is a disaster for everyone, players, clubs and Cork.

All of this is a test of Kevin O Donovan. He can’t blame anyone else for this one. He is part of this problem. Will he fix it or just double down like his predecessor?

 

[rebeloffline]

Any word from the review of cork football meeting tonight lads? Wouldn’t it be great to have Dr. Paul O’Keefe involved in some capacity? The man has a proven track record with senior county winning teams and in the sigerson cup. He’d surely be able to advise us on how to reduce our medical bill also. We’ve sent more footballers over to London for hamstring surgeries in the last few years than we’ve won knockout championship games.

 

[St fachtna]

Any word from the review of cork football meeting tonight lads? Wouldn’t it be great to have Dr. Paul O’Keefe involved in some capacity? The man has a proven track record with senior county winning teams and in the sigerson cup. He’d surely be able to advise us on how to reduce our medical bill also. We’ve sent more footballers over to London for hamstring surgeries in the last few years than we’ve won knockout championship games.

He would be good man for cork u20 team

 

[decritic]

From what I heard many good points made from the floor about standard/ type of football being played, too much hand passing, running team lack of kicking etc. however many felt it was a waste of time as top brass not listening. The ceo started the meeting with a 20 minute defence of the 5 year plan of how successful it was and it met a lot of what it set out to achieve. Later we had nail twomey shouting at the floor saying how great he and the gdcs are and everyone in the meeting is wrong. Basically vent away lads but we not listening. The coaching officer did seem a bit taken aback with their attitude and said he’d take all comments onboard and think about them in the next few days. He appeared to be on his own on that

 

[TravisBickle]

Seeing the likes of Ger Brennan’s success, when was the last time a Cork man managed another county?

 

[Ondaball]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1939768316232704169

Interesting post here, cork 5th most football semi finals in last 20 years. Obviously majority of those coming from one period.

One thing I don't see discussed here is the fact cork seem to be very competitive in football every 10 or 20 years it seems. Our last 3 all ireland winning teams, counting the 89 and 90 team as one were spaced out roughly 20 years apart each time.

It's very disappointing we haven't been more competitive the last few years but is this just the way things are for football in cork, with us being a decent team always (wasn't always the case the last few years) but sustained gaps in our competitiveness in the all ireland race.

We'd all certainly hope and should be pushing for more but maybe this is just the way things are here with hurling taking priority.

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

Seeing the likes of Ger Brennan’s success, when was the last time a Cork man managed another county?

Not many I can think of.
Peter Creedon with Tipperary I’d say
Tompkins first gig was Waterford U21s in the 90s

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

One thing I don't see discussed here is the fact cork seem to be very competitive in football every 10 or 20 years it seems. Our last 3 all ireland winning teams, counting the 89 and 90 team as one were spaced out roughly 20 years apart each time.

It was discussed a lot on here last year and the year before.
I’m football we come along with a good team every 15/20 odd years and pick off an All Ireland. We’ve been doing that consistently for a long time. On each occasion we should have won more than we actually did.
Cork are in the top 5/6 counties in football in the country

 

[Roverwild17]

Seeing the likes of Ger Brennan’s success, when was the last time a Cork man managed another county?

Ephie Fitzgerald managed Waterford few years back

 

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