Cork Minor Hurlers 2025

[Gregory_Mike]

I was kidding FGS!!

Not allowed on here. Naughty, naughty.

 

[Field1]

Cork have a nice break before the SF - any chance Coffey might have recovered by then?

A broken ankle I heard, so sadly not. Shame for the young lad.

 

[Corkonian1]

A broken ankle I heard, so sadly not. Shame for the young lad.

Hopefully Callum will be back and raring to go for next years Cork minors as he's underage again in 2026.

Congrats to Bobby Carroll, all the players and mentors on last night's Munster Championship victory.

Waterford had a point given last night that was clearly wide, their 9th point. Afterall it made no difference to the result but did influence the Waterford comeback.

 

[kilally]

Galway seem handy as well. I haven't seen them but they only lost by four at Nowlan Park having played a man down the last twenty minutes.

Cork definitely more fluent than Waterford, and have more potential match winners. In the round-robin game O'Sullivan was quiet from play but Deane excelled, last night Waterford handled Deane well but O'Sullivan scored five from play and could have had more. Waterford shot a fair number of wides in both matches, but also don't seem as able to move the ball quickly to create clear shooting chances in good positions. To be fair, Cork defended well as a team last night, really good work from the forwards and midfielders to turn over possession.

One thing Cork need to work on is their fielding. Sam Ring caught a great ball for his goal, but before that they were struggling to win high balls into the forwards. That could be a real problem for a team that can upset their preferred delivery from the hbs and midfield into space in front of the FF line. And I'd like to see the Cork defenders go for the catch more often - there's nothing wrong with getting the ball to ground and winning the break on occasion, but they rely on it a bit too much imo.

Cork have a nice break before the SF - any chance Coffey might have recovered by then?

Good point on the fielding, a couple of times Friday night we had a few v long distance frees which were driven accurately into the mixer. At least twice Waterford players were able to win clean catches without any Cork lad challenging for possession. Might be an idea to place young Donovan centrally for that type of free and tell him to get up in the air and let his corner men play off him or the breaking ball.

 

[westcorkdreamin]

Anyone have the fixtures post Munster final handy? Google not throwing up much. Thanks

 

[imigrant]

Clare are hammering the Dubs at htime

 

[hurley68]

Clare are hammering the Dubs at htime

up 4 goals at half time

 

[Killyoursons]

Clare won by double scores, 2-20 to 13 points. Blew Dublin away in the second quarter. They're a dangerous team, I'd expect them to give anyone a good game in the QF.

Limerick leading 14 points to 9 at HT. They were 10-2 up at one stage before Wexford steadied things.

 

[Killyoursons]

Limerick win 1-20 to 0-15. From what I saw they were the better team.

 

[Killyoursons]

Kk 1-6 Galway 1-3 at HT in Leinster final. Tough fast game in v challenging conditions. Galway not great on frees and made a hames of clearing their lines to allow KK their goal.