Sometimes, you have to call a spade a spade.
Sometimes, you have to call a shite setup a shite setup.
What’s happening in Cork of late is not good enough. They’re Cork. They’re bloody Cork and they’re shadows of themselves going through the motions. They’re not even going through the motions – at least then, they’d get moving every so often.
Cork won the All-Ireland in 2010 and, after that, they went on and won two National League titles. It was only two years ago they were held to a draw by Kerry and would’ve won the game if it wasn’t for some controversial refereeing.
But they haven’t gotten to anywhere near those standards anywhere near often enough. 10 Munster under-21 titles to boot in the last 14 years and you’d expect that the Rebels should be one of the most feared counties in Ireland but they couldn’t be further from that.
In fact, they’re the sort of side that Waterford look at now and think, “why not?”
The Deise were beaten by a single point by Cork on Sunday as the Leesiders were given an almighty scare en route to the provincial semi-final clash with Tipperary.
But Tomás Ó Sé absolutely dug them out on The Sunday Game with a brilliant piece of TV. The Kerry legend plays his club football with Nemo Rangers now and he knows first-hand that the talent is in the county.
Rory Kavanagh chimed in by talking about Donegal’s dismantling of Cork last year when they were wounded. But the Munster men brought no edge. “No cut”. A lovely game, as he described where not even a hand was laid on any Donegal player.
That, he says, typified Cork right now.
Watch the pair’s scathing analysis.
