Cork GAA Discussion Thread

really good game in the hurling today ye must be happy at the tempo pat ryan has ye playing at this time of year , it looks like speed wont be a problem for ye come championship , but like ourselves the wides have to stop

Ye have over 120 clubs playing hurling between hurling and dual clubs (open to correction there). We have only 38 hurling clubs, and pretty much split 3 ways (12 senior, 12 inter, 14 junior).

It's not like for like due to the number of participating clubs and population difference. So while in terms of club championship tiers it's our 2nd v ye're 3rd and our 3rd v ye're 5th at junior, if Cork was to be split along our lines, our intermediate champions would be facing the 37th side in Cork and our juniors would be facing the 73rd (approximately). Obviously that would make no sense to have 36 teams in senior and intermediate in Cork, so ye have something different that works for Cork. As we have for Kilkenny.

Each county has to have it's structure to suit the number of clubs in it. Nothing wrong with that.

Our championship in the lower levels just happen to be fairly strong and usually very competitive. Bennetsbridge for example went from a Junior team in 2014 to Senior finalists in 2018 (losing by 3 points to Ballyhale that year, who went on to win the AI) winning both AI's at junior and intermediate. It's not unusual to see Kilkenny clubs be in the final of the above grade within a year or two, there doesn't tend to be much between the bottom half of the higher/top half of the lower teams, and the short knockout run can see them climb quickly. The reverse is also true, my own club (Carrickshock) was senior only a handful of years ago, we barely escaped relegation to Junior this year. And having it split into 3 even sizes so long ago was arguably the making of it, Initially it was going to be 8, 8, 16 to concentrate the standard when the abandoned the two county boards system and started setting up the championships properly, but it was felt our clubs would develop better overall if we went with 12/12/14. And it's worked for us.

And I'm pretty sure in time, the new system will work better for Cork. Anyone I've talked to from Cork the last few years have said the hurling championships are the better for it, more even and more entertaining and of a generally good standard. Eventually that'll see Cork clubs improve.

Besides, Cork clubs pretty much dominate Munster and rack up AI's too (2nd in roll of honour in both) in Junior and Intermediate, one bad weekend doesn't change that either, ye're likelier than anyone other than Kilkenny to win both AI's next year.

Ah stop

like the concerts in the middle of championship we have to do whatever brings in the money whether we like it or not. At least its a Cork company I suppose

Supervalu Park?

An absolute joke.

You could say that Pairc Ui Chaoimh wasn’t Super Valu.

Have to say, €1 Million to sell your stadium name for 3 years doesn’t seem like a good deal from Cork’s perspective at all.

There’ll be some big gigs there over the 3 years I’m sure, so you’d have thought a big price would’ve been an easy sell.

Alot of people have no problem with a sponsor but losing "Ui Chaoimh" is a step too far.

All other stadiums seem to keep the original stadium name: Limerick has TUS Gaelic Grounds, Thurles has FBD Semple Stadium, Kilkenny has UPMC Nowlan Park, Carlow has Netwatch Cullen Park, Laois has Laois Hire O Moore Park, Wexford has Chadwicks Wexford park, Cavan has Kingspan Breffni Park

Donovan is one of the most divisive people in the Gaa.

Hopefully tonights meeting will make him back down to renaming it SuperValu Pairc Ui Chaoimh. It's a pity the media got banned from these monthly meetings last week, how convenient. 

Therein lies the problem in my opinion. None of those stadiums are ever generally referred to with the sponsors name (maybe except Netwatch Cullen Park). I assume Supervalu reckon they'll get more bang for their buck if "UI chaoimh" is dropped altogether to essentially make it a totally new name rather than just tagging on the sponsor to the existing name.

Fridays McGrath cup final on youtube

That's a gas photo, fair play 🤣🤣🤣🤣

But Munster have their own big stadium to use for those. They even have one in cork for the smaller URC games. Why would they go to puc/ SP?