Cork GAA Discussion Thread

Need a goal badly now to have any chance. Tyrone down to 14

As I type, you would think Cork had 14 and Tyrone 15 on field. We look to have run out of steam again

We just couldn't drive it on in that second half. That Tyrone goal proved to be very costly indeed. Hopefully we'll win that prelim final anyway, although i think we'll be on the road for that. Anyway hopefully the hurlers take care of Offaly with the minimum of fuss and that we don't pick up any injuries.

Rubbish post tbh

8 points up and just doing enough. Offaly fouling non stop and it feels like they dont want to get pushed around by us kind of thing. I'd say they will get a man sent off in the second half if things go on as is.

We look very rusty but beginning to get going late in the half. Its a game where we just want to get it over with and get out with no injuries.

That's another poor performance by the Cork hurlers. A reality check needed again, Dublin will have nothing to worry about facing us. We don't need to be talking of winning the All Ireland just yet. If we beat Dublin and get by, l fear we will be hammered v Limerick.

That went as expected. Offaly made a game of it but fouled a lot as well. The late hit on Horgan was very sneaky.

The 2 late goals leave a sour taste but its just a case of getting the win and getting out of there. Good to see the subs getting a run. Robbie O'Flynn looked sharp when he came on. We had a load of wides as well but thats when you havent played in a bit. This game will bring us on a good bit now as we were very rusty looking after the break. Remember we had a 4 week break. Very long time.

Still stuff to improve on but we don't want to be peaking in this match. Next up is Dublin which should be a bit harder again but good preparation for the semis.

I take you points but the one thing I fear was Offaly got three goals today and missed two others. This could have been alot closer.

If anything it could have been a bigger win in my view. Give them the 2 goals. We had 14 wides. Even if we just got half of them, we are one more ahead. Some of Colemans wides in particular were really bad but its rare to see him miss so much. I put it down to rustiness.

This also keeps peoples hopes down a bit and hopefully Limerick think they will hammer us like you do!! It always the best position to be in. Through to the next round but people unimpressed. We have way more gears. You can see that when the lead went down to 5 points. Suddenly we were 8 up again and still won by 9 after 2 late goals.

Any idea of a throw in time for next Saturday? If Munster win in the rugby the final will be in Limerick with a 5pm k.o. Not sure would that have an impact on throw in time with tv coverage to avoid a clash.

We'll just take the win but conceding 3 19 to Offaly is a slight concern i think. We have to worry about Dublin first, but Limerick will ruthlessly exploit any defensive vulnerabilities in the semi final.

RTE announced late March they had Quarter Final slots for June 22nd at 1.15pm and 3.15pm

While I appreciate the fact no result for hurlers would satisfy anyone, to concede 3-19 and they could easily got 2 more goals has be a concern at some level.

In our five games we averaged 2-23 conceded. 3-19 is about the same as 2-23.

But we are averaging 3-26 scored. Keep going as is and we win the whole thing!

The question that should be asked is who is going to keep us out? Limerick didn't. Connolly didn't even score against Offaly and it was still no problem. We are not relying on one guy, We racked up big scores down to 14 against Waterford and Clare too.

Ok I'm a bit tongue in cheek but it seems like this team is all about the attack. Of course, its a worry conceding but once we score more than we let in, its ok!!!