Cork GAA Discussion Thread

the nerves have started!!! I couldn’t get a ticket so I’ll be sitting on a bar stool tomorrow!! Few whiskeys before to sort out the butterflies! You’d swear I was playing!!!

I won't lie i'm a bit nervous here, but i'm also in no doubt that if this team hits top form and plays to it's full potential, then Clare can have Tony Kelly, Jesus, Buddha or Allah on their team for all i care, it won't make one iota of a difference we'll all be celebrating Liam McCarthy's return to Leeside tomorrow evening.

Safe journey going to Dublin and back everyone and let's raise the roof off the stands for the 1999 team as well! Rebels Abu it's time for Hoggie to get that long awaited and deserved all Ireland medal.🔴⚪

Just a reminder that the Ladies footballers are playing Galway in the All Ireland Semi final on TG4 at the moment.

It's currently Cork 0-3 Galway 1-2.

Ref has just given a ridiculous penalty against Cork. Truly awful decision

Managed to get 3 tickets. 2 of my friends who are German and here this weekend are coming along. They've never been to a hurling game so tomorrow could be some experience...Rebels Abu

Impossible to win a game with a ref like this. Any time Cork go near a Galway player he gives them a free. These frees are so soft

Only 8 mins left and Cork down by 5

That outrageous penalty ended up being the difference. Ref accounted for about 1-5 of Galways scores at least. One of the worst refs ever. The ladies games need better refs. Every time they seem to have awful ones. Must be awful for that Cork squad to have all their hard work undone.

Galway 2-07 Cork 0-10

That's a shame for the ladies team. For a while we took it for granted we'd be winning all irelands

Limerick fan here, Im going to copy and paste this and post in both Clare and Cork hurling threads.

Looking forward to a cracking Final tomorrow.

Obviously Im gutted that Limerick is not there, we have been blessed with great days over the last 6 years.
It felt like a death in the parish this past 2 weeks without the build up and anticipation of the Final.
This time last year and 2022 and 2021 I was in Searsons with family and friends sinking a few pints and soaking up the atmosphere, this is what its all about.
Enjoy it guys, breath it all in ….

Best of luck to both Teams and supporters, two great teams and great supporters on both sides
We (Limerick) look forward to welcoming the new All Ireland Champions to the Gaelic Grounds in 2025.

I would love to have what you are having. :-D

I have the butterflies but just hopeful. Some lad on a Clare thread said we are arrogant and are expecting victory and Clare need not turn up. What a load of nonsense, we know we have a chance of winning this game just as much as Clare have. It's all on the day. They are fierce bitter about us over in the Waterford thread as well and want us beaten. It wasn't our fault that they didn't get out of Munster and not our fault that their full back hit the ball out for a 65 which cost them. Not our fault that they haven't won an All Ireland since 1959 either. So bitter they are the county east of the Cork border.

What a poor ref. It was so even but he swung it at crucial times to Clare. Blatant chop near the end. Blatant jersey pull at the very end.

Should have been a black card and/or penalty during game. If not, a yellow card, should have been a second yellow. Should have been a 65 for Cork during game. Hoggie was shoved in back coming out for ball. Then Hayes the same. The list goes on and on. So frustrating

I was worried about the fact that the referee was from Limerick. Those fears came to pass. Well done to Clare but i'm just devastated. I've seen a few all Irelands defeats with Cork and this is the worst of the lot imo.

But look there was other things as well. We allowed Clare to score goals. I said we'd need to keep them scoreless to win. Their defence seemed to outmuscle us at times as well. They cleaned up a lot of the time on the long puckouts.

The turning point though was when Robbie O'Flynn went for goal when he should've taken the point. Clare took over and drove on for home there. We missed an awful bad chance at the end to tie the game as well. We just didn't get the breaks that we needed today. Well done again to Clare but my god it'll take a long time to get over this one!

Hard luck lads. Mad reffing. Every big call went against yee. Sickening.

Lads we can blame the referee but we threw it away. Hoggie has to score in front of goal, and the subs were shocking bar maybe Kingston. Same old ****

The umpire didn't give us a penalty either, feck it we were robbed big time today. That Limerick refferee gave Clare everything. We should've launched an objection to someone from Limerick getting that job. Of course he would be biased against Cork and of course there would be payback for us beating Limerick the last day.

But look we have to look at the things we can control. We allowed Clare to score three goals and the long puckout strategy didn't work as well as it did against Limerick. We need to find some more ball winners up front as well. We have to also work on being tighter in defence. It looks like Hoggie and Seamie Harnedy will never win that all Ireland now sadly.

It hurts to say this but we have become serious bottlers post 2005. The referee today didn't do us any favours though!