Are the Cork Garlic Footballers the most unloved sports team in the world

😂.

A team of vampires wouldn't lay a glove on them.

We talk about long suffering Mayo fans, but Cork are a real team that every good performance is followed by a bad one

Support for the county football team is in the minority for sure compared to the hurlers, but there is still a lot of interest in football in the county. It shouldn't be forgotten that there's more clubs in the county that play football than play hurling, although admittedly some clubs only give it lip-service. And even if the football county team do underachieve they still generally pop up with an All-Ireland every 20 years or so which many other counties would bite your hand off for.

The loss of the dual player seems to have affected Cork footballers more than most teams. I'm not sure about the very early wins in the early 1900s, but every other football All-Ireland they've won have had dual players. Teddy Mc, Ray Cummins, JBM, Eoin Cadogan, Aidan Walsh, Denis Coughlan, Jack Lynch, Brian Murphy, Denis Walsh off the top of my head. There's been a good few hurlers in the last 25 years including on the current team who would have been as good if not better at football but chose to play hurling. The old straight knock-out system with less matches seemed to have suited Cork footballers as players were able to play both codes. A county as big as Cork should still be able to compete with a losing couple of players to a different code however but they don't seem to be able to do it currently.

Tipperary won a Munster final 4 years ago, Cork haven't won one in 12 years. Tipp got to an All Ireland semi final recently as well. Cork have won 7 AI's in total compared to Tipp's 4. Hardly a huge disparity as you have tried to paint.

…and Brian Corcoran was on the 1993 team beaten by only 3 points by Derry in final and Sean Og Ohailpin on the 1999 football team also only beaten by 3 points by Meath in all ireland final

I've seen the Cork football team play twice at Croke Park and never saw many Cork fans there.

Everyone forgets too that Cork have lost more All Ireland Finals than Mayo. In fact, the only team to lose more than Cork is Kerry - so Cork have traditionally had a poor return once they get out of Munster ...

Cork football just suffers so badly from having Kerry as neighbours, and the hurlers irrespective of how good and bad they're going are always the glamour team in Cork.

Even when we won that all Ireland in 2010 i think it was only lukewarmly accepted in certain quarters in Cork. Some people felt that it wasn't the same because we didn't beat Kerry.

But the hurlers didn't beat Kilkenny to win the 1984, 1986, 1990 and 2005 all Irelands and that rightfully wasn't seen as an issue. They were and still are seen as cherished all Ireland wins.

Post 2012 we've pulled off the odd decent result to give you some hope, but it's never built on. When Cork football seems to be going one step forwards, it then proceeds to go five steps backwards again!

You look at a county like Galway who traditionally like Cork are contenders in both codes, yet in Galway there isn't the same discrepancy in terms of support of both county teams that there is in Cork.

Galway to me seem to be pretty equal in terms of support and attendances in both senior codes.

I remember Meath played Cork in an All-Ireland semi circa 09, and the Cork turnout was brutal. I know Cork is divided into football and hurling area's, but those who play football are more likely to go watch the hurlers, if it's a choice of travelling. It's costly, and if your going to pick one weekend to go to Dublin, it's to watch the hurlers, whether you play football or hurling in Cork

So it's understandable the distance, and their locally rivalries generally being with hurling counties, other than the obvious huge rivalry with Kerry in football. I think the whole county of Cork is also just so invested in the hurlers ending their drought at this stage, that's the priority.

At the end of the day, lots of sports are popular in Cork, but it's ultimately a hurling county, and Irelands most successful one. When it comes down to it, hurling will always win out there

will you stop , natasha has a real problem to raise and fair play to her for standing up , judges and criminals in this country are getting away with blue murder , its alabama deepsouth stuff at the moment but there is nothing wrong with that post above

And people would then argue that Kilkenny only playing hurling is a big factor!