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Hard luck our lads, and well done cork on their respective performances today. We had no answer for Cork's 2nd half battle plan, which paid off so well with their 2 pointers. There has to be an element of gamble in winning a game, and Cork did just that...they decided to go for the big shots and they all paid off. Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3859 - 14/06/2026 03:49:18 2679431 Link 0 |
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To say it was smash and grab is being disingenuous to Cork, they dominated game in last 15 and upped the intensity to a level that we could not match. They were deserved winners. I didn't think we could be as poor as we were against Down, but we backed that up today. Lacked ideas and energy, hard to explain given that we have only had 2 matches in the last 9 weeks. Are the team being overtrained?? Who knows given the veil of secrecy that surrounds that surrounds the modern day paranoia of inter county teams. As others have outlined here the reluctance to kick the ball especially with Murphy inside busting a gut every game to get Donegal over the line is hard to fathom. Again our most consistent forward and when chasing the game gets the curly finger. Was Max Campbell injured? I think in the next game we need the pace and energy of him and caolan mccolgan in defence to drive us forward. Eoghan Ban & Ryan McHugh looked very one paced yesterday. Shane and Conor O'Donnell need to start being more direct as both have pace but are running across the field too often. McGee and McFadden were second past in the middle third too. We were second best to breaking ball too and that come down To hunger, Cork were ravenous towards the end. We can't complain we got the home draw we wanted after the difficult trip to Killarney now we await another hopefully favourable draw next week, last year we blamed the number of games, this year we have had hardly any. totalrecall (Leitrim) - Posts: 1251 - 14/06/2026 07:37:52 2679439 Link 0 |