CORK V KERRY MUNSTER ALL IRELAND SENIOR FINAL

[Frank Casey]

By god but I won't need the viagra tonight after reading that. Tis great to be appreciated and the little sting to the non-Ulster counties is a nice finish.

Great, don't omit to tell the missus the source of your performance 

This wife is having a cigarette. I think she wants to meet you.

Sláinte!

I owe you a pint.

[darbyo]

Have been unable to post for the last week and I haven't gone through all the posts but has Billy Morgan's role in this debacle been mentioned. Now Billy is a legend of the game, particularily in Cork, and his presence in the city is of utmost importance in keeping the game strong there but he is no longer a top quaility inter county manager. I'm not saying this because of last Sunday's result, I've been saying it for some time now, he has Cork playing excessively negative football, he is unwilling to regularily play the U21's of the last 4 years, and is too loyal to the Nemo guy's on the panel. Kavanagh is not an inter-county midfielder, Master's isn't a real inter-county forward(a option from the bench yes, but not the fulcrum of your forward line). Players like Goulding & Gould should be on the team and left find their feet, play them in their right positions and build their confidence. Instead neither is given a good run in the team or when started are taken off if playing poorly. And even when Goulding played well in the semi was still dropped for a less than 100% Masters.
                         It really annoys me when people justify giving an inter county job to lads based on their profile, so the same few heads are mentioned when an inter county job comes up. Being a great player is no indication of being a great coach/manager. Now I know some might come on here and point out Billy's record with Nemo as proof of his managerial quailities, which is fair enough but I'm not saying Billy is inept as a manager he's just not inter county standard. If like me you were at the game then I'd say you know just how bad Cork really were. 

[never kickt a ball]

One week later and all quiet. Can anyone post analysis from the Sunday newspapers?

[Frank Casey]

From www.kerryman.ie. At least one Corkman showed some fight or could he not take the beating?

Kerry fan assaulted by former Cork GAA star

Wednesday September 19 2007

A KERRY football supporter is lying in a Dublin hospital with a smashed cheekbone after being punched in the face by a former Cork inter-county GAA star.

Dublin gardaí are investigating the incident that occurred outside a city centre hotel after the final whistle blew on Kerry?s victory over Cork in Croke Park.

Martin Downey, from Castleisland, was facing surgery this week after the attack which left him with a badly broken cheekbone. The Kerryman understands that he was assaulted by the former Cork star late on Sunday night after an innocuous comment regarding the match.

Gardaí were alerted to the incident and an arrest was made, according to one source. Mr Downey was to undergo reconstructive surgery at a Dublin hospital on Wednesday.

[AZOffaly]

Obviously don't know the case and yadda yadda yadda, but I thought this line highly prejudicial

The Kerryman understands that he was assaulted by the former Cork star late on Sunday night after an innocuous comment regarding the match.

First of all I would like to know what 'innocuous' comment was made, and secondly, given that it is the Kerryman reporting on an alleged assault on a Kerry man, by an ex Cork player, I would at the least say the reporting will be biased.

In the Examiner it probably says, Kerry Animal attacks Cork man's fist with face.

[blanketattack]

And thirdly. Kerry as a team are simply magnificent. When you look at them in full flow on All-Ireland day and how they can dismantle teams, it just brings into sharper focus the sheer tenacity, sticking power and invention of Tyrone and Armagh, the only two teams to beat them this decade in Croke Park.

What about Meath?

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

And thirdly. Kerry as a team are simply magnificent. When you look at them in full flow on All-Ireland day and how they can dismantle teams, it just brings into sharper focus the sheer tenacity, sticking power and invention of Tyrone and Armagh, the only two teams to beat them this decade in Croke Park.

What about Meath?

Fair point ba, in the 2001 semi-final, though this is Jarlarth Burns' quote, and not mine 

[Hardy]

"Beat" is surely too small a word for what we did to them. If it wasn't for the fact that Galway hammered us in the final and our team disintegrated after that and Armagh and Tyrone came to the fore and our renaissance was guillotined (hopefully temporarily) by Cork this year, sure we could be celebrating seven-in-a-row now.