Cork Hurlers - Part 2

[Barry K O Bama]

We must give huge credit to Clares players, management and Supporters (definitely very decent people)

Apart from some wayward shooting, they got everything spot on.

We blitzed 'em in the opening 15 mins but they held their nerve and actually got into the lead b4 HT.

They did foul a lot and Conlon did some nasty strokes (thats my only criticism)

We could have played the ref too.

We will learn a huge amount and be better for this

 

[Twiceasnice97]

'The Drive for Five'.

Lol

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[Thehighroad]

Johnny Murphy is a hero in south Limerick since Sunday. He is living in an area where a cork victory would be a nite mare too close to cork border. We always knew it would be the Johnny show.

 

[Twiceasnice97]

A sore loser is one thing; a sore winner is the pits.

Nobody is suggesting that Murphy gave Clare every decision. But when you see Duignan and Galvin calling out a string of bizarre decisions pro-Clare, even Marty Morrissey for feck sake. None of whom have a soft spot for Cork.

You can't even acknowledge that even though ye were the better team for most of the game ye still needed a bad decision to get over the line at the very end.

You're just ranting at this point.
There isn't a pinch of gloating over cork on my behalf other than the likes of Jimmy barry smurph and his equals. ?

 

[1986 Rebel]

What do ya do with Mark Coleman? There has to be a place for him I think, he was excellent in the later stages and was one of the players to lead the comeback. But his defending for Rodger’s goal was as bad as you’ll ever see in an All Ireland Final. Also Fitzgerald could have ended up with 7/8 points only for bad wides.

 

[Twiceasnice97]

100%
The only players that might step away are paul Flanagan and Seadna Morey. That's pure speculation
conlon o donnell and Kelly have committed publicly already ,
The rest of them have no reason to quit

But will be 36 next year, Do you think he will stay playing now that he has his second medal?

 

[Cook My Sock]

'The Drive for Five'.

Lol

The drive for one ?????

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

Denis Walsh has it that Cork only won 10 out of 37 long puckouts.
That’s a line that was cleaned out and was the losing of the game.

My point stands neither Barrett or Dalton are great options to win 50:50. And Harnedy is I’ll he 36

As someone else posted after the match it was our inability to win our own puck out cost us the game.
Clare won 60% of our own puck out. Imagine that!! I’ve never seen the likes of it before and I don’t know why we persisted with a tactic that was costing us the game, against as poor an opponent as you’ll ever play in an All Ireland final.
We scored 7 points from our puck out. Clare scored 3-6 off theirs!!

Our pick outs had been very successful against Limerick. We broke the rules to do that though, launching them within a few seconds of the ball going over the bar or out wide. It was amazing we weren’t pulled on the day.
As I posted here already, GAA got word to both camps last week and the ref spoke to both teams on Sunday about waiting for his whistle. This was all covered by the media prior to Sundays final.
This is nothing new and no conspiracy. All the time you see refs doing this at underage matches too. It’s also normal that GAA/refs send messages at inter county level.
It’s as simple at this. We were cruising against poor opponents but a tactic curtailed on the day by the rules was persisted with. It cost us the game.

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

100%
The only players that might step away are paul Flanagan and Seadna Morey. That's pure speculation
conlon o donnell and Kelly have committed publicly already ,
The rest of them have no reason to quit

Wrong forum. We couldn’t care less

 

[CmonTheTown]

Called it a month or two back, and calling it again. Joyce to go to full-back line.
We need to stop the goals.
FB line next year please of Joyce, Downey and one of NOL or Conor O'Callghan.
Plenty of options in HB and MF to allow Joyce move back a line.

Very hard to stop those goals, it wasn't like they waltzed in. There was a lot of skill at high speed and our D was mindful of the 2 reds earlier in the championship.

Very hard to stop our goals too, but Clare went with a pulling-the-Jersey strategy and it paid off in the end- but only just. Murphy called all of them bar the last one. I don't think we went out with that strategy in our back pocket. Again, earlier reds in the championship influencing our strategy maybe.