Cork Hurlers - Part 2

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In the last 12 months Cork hurling has played in 6 All Ireland finals in Croke Park and only won one.

Now I suppose to be fair the Cork seniors gave a great account of themselves and were narrowly beaten in the greatest final of all time and Russell Rovers put up a decent fight against St Lachtains last week.

St. Catherine's, Castlelyons and Sars were all heavily beaten after non performances. I wonder are we overthinking the Croke Park factor down here a bit in hurling circles recently and building it up too much to say that our teams are freezing to such an extent. I understand you meet a top team in a final and get beaten but we shouldn't be producing teams who are getting walloped in finals.

It's great that our teams are getting there, and the more we get there the more likely it is that the tide will eventually turn in our favour but it's just how do we start getting more Cork teams over the line on the big day up there.

Club teams mean nothing to inter county. Our hurlers played in two classics this summer in Croke Park beating the 5 in a row chasing champions and losing by 1 point in extra time in an all time classic. Cork have no issues with Croke Park

 

[cactus jack]

sounds like Wexford will be pulling lads from the pub to put a jersey on them

Cork clash comes at 'difficult time' with Wexford amid player crisis

Wexford hurling manager Keith Rossiter said he will be fielding an "experimental" team in their league opener against Cork due to so many first choice players being unavailable.

www.irishexaminer.com

 

[Crankycorner]

sounds like Wexford will be pulling lads from the pub to put a jersey on them

Cork clash comes at 'difficult time' with Wexford amid player crisis

Wexford hurling manager Keith Rossiter said he will be fielding an "experimental" team in their league opener against Cork due to so many first choice players being unavailable.

www.irishexaminer.com

If they want me to tog out I’d be more than willing.

 

[Vladimir The Bear]

Club teams mean nothing to inter county. Our hurlers played in two classics this summer in Croke Park beating the 5 in a row chasing champions and losing by 1 point in extra time in an all time classic. Cork have no issues with Croke Park

I dunno R&B I think our recent record in Croke Park makes for grim reading.
Since 2010 I think our inter county record reads
Played 14, Won 4 Drew 1 Lost 9

Our club record reads
JR played 7 Won 3 Lost 4
Inter played 6 Won 3 Lost 3
Sr played 1 Won 0 Lost 1

Lot of those inter county games were games where for one reason or another the Cork team completely failed to fire
In particularly I'm thinking V Tipp 2014, V KK 2019 or V Limerick 2021.

 

[Vladimir The Bear]

sounds like Wexford will be pulling lads from the pub to put a jersey on them

Cork clash comes at 'difficult time' with Wexford amid player crisis

Wexford hurling manager Keith Rossiter said he will be fielding an "experimental" team in their league opener against Cork due to so many first choice players being unavailable.

www.irishexaminer.com

Will the team be named Thurs or Friday night I wonder.

 

[red&blue]

I dunno R&B I think our recent record in Croke Park makes for grim reading.
Since 2010 I think our inter county record reads
Played 14, Won 4 Drew 1 Lost 9

Our club record reads
JR played 7 Won 3 Lost 4
Inter played 6 Won 3 Lost 3
Sr played 1 Won 0 Lost 1

Lot of those inter county games were games where for one reason or another the Cork team completely failed to fire
In particularly I'm thinking V Tipp 2014, V KK 2019 or V Limerick 2021.

All true Vlad but this group of players are different, their mentality is different, and what happened Cork teams in the last decade has no bearing on their thinking. Now of course one could say they have won fuck all either and that is true but I think the next few years will change all that

 

[Vladimir The Bear]

All true Vlad but this group of players are different, their mentality is different, and what happened Cork teams in the last decade has no bearing on their thinking. Now of course one could say they have won fuck all either and that is true but I think the next few years will change all that

I think it will change as well, whatever about getting beaten, I just find it very demoralising seeing Cork or Cork teams turn up to Croker in particular and not perform anywhere near their ability.

As sickening as the loss to Clare was last July I can accept it because Cork died with their boots on. The loss to Limerick in 2021 or Kilkenny in 2019 drove me cracked and still do when I think of them.

 

[red&blue]

I think it will change as well, whatever about getting beaten, I just find it very demoralising seeing Cork or Cork teams turn up to Croker in particular and not perform anywhere near their ability.

As sickening as the loss to Clare was last July I can accept it because Cork died with their boots on. The loss to Limerick in 2021 or Kilkenny in 2019 drove me cracked and still do when I think of them.

Spot on

 

[Pooman]

I dunno R&B I think our recent record in Croke Park makes for grim reading.
Since 2010 I think our inter county record reads
Played 14, Won 4 Drew 1 Lost 9

Our club record reads
JR played 7 Won 3 Lost 4
Inter played 6 Won 3 Lost 3
Sr played 1 Won 0 Lost 1

Lot of those inter county games were games where for one reason or another the Cork team completely failed to fire
In particularly I'm thinking V Tipp 2014, V KK 2019 or V Limerick 2021.

My young fellas first time seeing Cork win in Croke Park was his 7th match there and first time in 70 minutes was his 9th. These are consecutive appearances by Cork between 2013-2021, his first match was the drawn 2013 final and finally saw a win in 2021 semi. That's grim.

 

[Pooman]

It was some game to finally see a win though Vlad!! We floated down the M8....