Cork Hurlers - Part 2

[Herbert]

Random question but does anyone know when the 2026 jersey will be released. Asking for a concerned nana looking to sort out the xmas presents.

gaa shirts are 2 years so no new cork shirt this year. new training gear up on o neills website if that helps.

 

[Henrys Fonda]

Random question but does anyone know when the 2026 jersey will be released. Asking for a concerned nana looking to sort out the xmas presents.

Don’t think there is a new one till the 2027 season, there is a training shirt for next year though

 

[North Cork]

Anyone read A. Connolly interview in Examiner today.?

I read it, pretty much what he would be expected to say... everyone loved Pat Ryan and wanted him to stay but looking forward to working with BOC who has a great hurling pedigree.
The exception being the comment about the final and what went wrong. I don't think it was meant as a criticism but certainly I think he was raised an issue that maybe helps explain what none of us could understand.. what went wrong.

Any one of us could have written it for him.

 

[North Cork]

He wasn’t going to say too much but that they were surprised by Tipp’s workrate is a damming indictment of the players and management team.

That was the one standout comment from the interview and was very surprising and an indictment of the management group I thought. Basically, reading between the lines, they were not prepared for what everybody knew was coming.

 

[North Cork]

I read that more that he didn't want to say that Pat Ryan got the tactics wrong.

But maybe that's just my bias!

I think that is probably close to the truth. I don't know if he was making a point deliberately or made an innocent comment which tells us more than anything we have heard since the game itself.
Either way, nothing to be gained now from looking at it too closely, move forward and hope there is a lesson learned.

 

[CmonTheTown]

I think that is probably close to the truth. I don't know if he was making a point deliberately or made an innocent comment which tells us more than anything we have heard since the game itself.
Either way, nothing to be gained now from looking at it too closely, move forward and hope there is a lesson learned.

I’d say no one is given PR training so anything is likely to come out. It is a consistent message with earlier interviews in the season though… thought we were ready but found out we weren’t during the game, type of thing. The performance certainly indicates they thought there was an easy AI up for grabs. That in itself is a brilliant learning for next year, Ben sorts that out and it’s half the battle.

 

[red&blue]

That was the one standout comment from the interview and was very surprising and an indictment of the management group I thought. Basically, reading between the lines, they were not prepared for what everybody knew was coming.

everyone did not know what was coming. Sure place was full of “how much will we beat tipp by?” sages in the run up to the final

But for the team to be that complacent and over confident is criminal

You have nothing won till you win it

 

[Henrys Fonda]

everyone did not know what was coming. Sure place was full of “how much will we beat tipp by?” sages in the run up to the final

Spot on, one or two might of voiced concerns but the revisionism here is funny

 

[Hallbopping]

everyone did not know what was coming. Sure place was full of “how much will we beat tipp by?” sages in the run up to the final

But for the team to be that complacent and over confident is criminal

You have nothing won till you win it

Tipp have some very dangerous forwards too that we’ve not spoken much about. Jason Forde is having a great year and John McGrath has a brilliant record in Croke Park. Jake Morris is bang in form too.

I tried to warn the PROC.

 

[red&blue]

I tried to warn the PROC.

yep alot of us were very cautious, some other fellas were giddy at the excitement of walloping Tipp in the final