Cork Hurlers - Part 2

[The Highway Man]

I pity Pat in a way. Lehane had a good league. What do you do? Leave him out then for the first match?! He's so utterly frustrating.

Dear God. Its like a mind melding disease among some.

 

[theporge]

Spot on Ponti..

 

[Personal Jaysus]

If people here think Pat Ryan is up to managing at this level ye are clueless. I could see with the team picked we were going to be in serious trouble . Training matches against your own teammates is not championship . Player that played well during league dropped. Cork won’t beat Clare . They’ll bully us out of it . Horgan , Harnedy and Leahane are finished . They done their service . Move on

The 3 lads are worth 35 mins each where they should run themselves into the ground. Whether that's first or second half is anyone's guess. Ben cunningham shot the lights out for barrs today too in a league match

 

[don]

not many here giving credit to Waterford but they were superb and i think they will give the other teams plenty to think about(they also have a nice schedule), looked to me like Cork werent ready or able to deal with the physicality Waterford brought- not sure you can blame the manager when the whole team malfunctions, Connolly probably the only who comes out of today with credit. Maybe a few like ToM should have been brought on.

 

[Horse of Gold]

Here we go now from the Fantasy Purists here now:

The ref rode us. Bla bla bla. STOP.
Barrett and Connolly kept us AFLOAT.
Ryan clearly not good enough Lehane should have been hooked at half time along with Hoggy but oopsie who comes off!!!
Damien Cahalane and Sean O'Donoghue cannot go man to man but we persist. Why?. This is a 15 year comedy show.

Not that it matters but I thought he was probably our best player today.

 

[UpCork123]

It's soul crushing not to see management learn from past mistakes.
Again, way too slow to make decisions.
Tommy O'C seemed to be at half back in the second half. He was caught in the air for the penalty. Same shit as last year. He was doing alright midfield.

 

[junior footballer]

I pity Pat in a way. Lehane had a good league. What do you do? Leave him out then for the first match?! He's so utterly frustrating.

Are you serious? Past performance is a good indicator and he should never have started, the selection was some message to younger players and speaks of a very
Comfortable space for some on the panel, at this level there is a requirement for ruthlessness and this management team don’t have it, to see the debutant hooked at half time is an indictment of the thinking

 

[RebelOnTheDitch]

Patrick Horgan thanks for the memories and the choke jobs it’s time to go

 

[Rt1001]

Damien Cahalane should have been playing yesterday ffs,

 

[kilally]

That defeat rests solely on the shoulders of Pat Ryan, no one else. We all saw the team on Friday night. I suspect that a lot of people were thinking the same thing as I was but were giving the benefit of the doubt until the match.

The team looked stale, no buzz of excitement about it. No sense of intrigue as to what direction the the team would take. We picked 3 thirty somethings in our forward line. We picked a midfield that has zero physicality to have the ability to stop runners and turnover ball.

We all saw the game, the result was inevitable from a long way out. This Cork side needed a reset, they have needed it for a number of years to be honest. There are players starting for Cork today who should be thanked for their service and asked to step down in order that the next generation can be brought on. Imho it should have been done 5 years ago. Pat Ryan should have done it year 1 and given himself time to bed in new players. It didn't happen, he persisted and we fell short again today. The psychology around our team is awful. We have no siege mentality, we get it periodically and then it disappears. An example today was the treatment of Mark Coleman, he was pushed, shoved, screamed at constantly by Waterford players all through the match and it was tolerated and watch by his team mates with little or no reaction.

We look on Limerick, KK, Tipp, Galway as our peers in the game, that would not happen to any player in their jersey. No one is screaming for all in 30 man brawls or to start flaking guys over the head but I'm sick of seeing this passiveness in us year in, year out. We are now in a do or die fixture next weekend against Clare at home in PUC. Clare who refused to play a fixture last year in PUC and got their way because it was too far for them to travel. They play Cork whose supporters are asked year on year to travel to every corner of the fucking country often multiple times a week or weekend for that matter who put up with it and travel regardless. The team should be frothing at the fucking mouth to put them out and and to draw some kind of line in the sand ascto where we are going or what we want to go with ourselves.

Sorry for the rant but I've had gutsfull.