Why would you assume Downey will go centre back? I presume strongly that Downey will go on hegarty who will go wing forward and that management despite numerous episodes of Coleman not being suited to centre back at this level I.e. the Waterford goal a couple of weeks ago will stick him at 6
Despite the many failings in terms of selection, coaching, game management, substitutions, strategy etc they don’t usually name dummy teams of positions
Anyway it’s academic, turning to the same defenders as you had in 2021 in 2024 is absolutely endemic of the total lack of development over the last 2 years, the league was criminally used in terms of developing players, remember the same centre forward for every game who lasted 40 minutes of championship?
We used everyone full back except the young fella who is now manning the square, it really troubles me that Tommy O’Connell didn’t come on vs Clare when it was crying out for his energy and effort, instead inexplicably we reached for a player who was almost immediately exposed for a goal….there is absolutely no right reason to expect cork to get close to limerick Saturday based on all known analysis.
Every single podcast and commentator has said you must compete and hammer the hammer of limerick at midfield in o’donoghue and cork pick a player who has been destroyed at
Midfield by the same player going back 4/5 years… millerick for Coleman, fitzgibbon moved to 11 with harnedy and Twomey starting midfield with Roche to come on there when harnedy is bust, that’s logical
Are we seriously heading to this game Saturday with the season and more on the line with maybe the odd high ball to hayes as the big difference to last year against the best team with the best defence in the country? It’s fucking mad
