2012 EA Sports Cup

**MariborKev** · 09/04/2012, 9:59 PM

Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy

I heard they were 9 foot tall with flaming red hair, laser beams coming from their eyes and lightening bolts coming from their arse.

Is that not Glenn Fitzpatrick?

**Finlay Harp** · 09/04/2012, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by MariborKev

Is that not Glenn Fitzpatrick?

Must have been a Sligo fan busting for a sheite on the bus floor trying to stop the bus. Long way to go for a crap all the same!

**El-Pietro** · 10/04/2012, 7:42 AM

were ****ing shockingly bad. getting worse every game.

**Spudulika** · 10/04/2012, 8:47 AM

El-P, question out of the blue, but not stirring. Does Tommy have the support of the Cork crowd? I ask as I see him as a good manager, with a good squad who are just not getting the breaks, or able to just kick on a little. I hope ye stick with him as I can see Cork settling mid-table by October.

**El-Pietro** · 10/04/2012, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

El-P, question out of the blue, but not stirring. Does Tommy have the support of the Cork crowd? I ask as I see him as a good manager, with a good squad who are just not getting the breaks, or able to just kick on a little. I hope ye stick with him as I can see Cork settling mid-table by October.

At the end of the day the buck stops with him, but yeah I think hes got our support for the most part. I think people see this as the players letting him down. He was visibly frustrated with them in Limerick yesterday

**sullanefc** · 10/04/2012, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

El-P, question out of the blue, but not stirring. Does Tommy have the support of the Cork crowd? I ask as I see him as a good manager, with a good squad who are just not getting the breaks, or able to just kick on a little. I hope ye stick with him as I can see Cork settling mid-table by October.

Can't speak for all Cork City fans, but my own opinion, and that of other fans that I have spoken to, would be supportive of Tommy. Most fans would put the blame on some of the 'experienced' players that are not performing. Dan Murray (slow & unmotivated), Colin Healy (poor), Danny Murphy (inconsistent), McNulty (prone to mistakes), Duggan & Morrissey (out-muscled in midfield).

So the players are not performing, but at the end of the day, Tommy Dunne assessed his squad at the end of last season, made signings, is picking the team, and is setting the tactics and motivation. If the team doesn't perform, the buck inevitably stops with him, as much as we can blame the players.

**Spudulika** · 10/04/2012, 5:58 PM

Thanks guys for the responses, again, I'll state clearly I'm not stirring, just wondering how the CCFC supporters view it, I know the work he has done in Cork is massive and the work the supporters do for and in the club is likewise. It just seems, to an outsider, that it's one of those situations that will click overnight. When I saw Colin Healy signing I thought it was great, likewise Murray and Murphy are two very solid players. I'm pretty certain the players won't need motivation for Friday night!

**Lim till i die** · 10/04/2012, 6:03 PM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

likewise Murray ............. very solid players.

Absolutely finished from what I've seen of him.

**MMVIII** · 10/04/2012, 6:25 PM

Originally Posted by Lim till i die

Absolutely finished from what I've seen of him.

How are people only copping on to this now? Whatever 'ability' he once may have had is most certainly gone and has been as such for the last three or four years.

**eL Bettor** · 10/04/2012, 7:01 PM

Anybody got the Drogs v Bohs starting lineups please and thanks?

**Acornvilla** · 10/04/2012, 7:10 PM

woo 1-0

**bullit** · 10/04/2012, 7:27 PM

1-1 now

**bullit** · 10/04/2012, 8:14 PM

dundalk 2-1 up now gazza shanahan with both for dlk

**Acornvilla** · 11/04/2012, 2:04 AM

boo urns

**Spudulika** · 11/04/2012, 4:24 AM

Originally Posted by ARooney28

How are people only copping on to this now? Whatever 'ability' he once may have had is most certainly gone and has been as such for the last three or four years.

He wasn't finished last season, or the season before. Maybe, as LTID says, he's gone back, but at what, 30? For a central defender, maybe he's out of form right now. I'm not a cheerleader for him but 3 or 4 years? Serious?

**El-Pietro** · 11/04/2012, 7:47 AM

hes 29, will be 30 later this year. He never had any pace to begin with so talk of him losing that is unfounded. Right now it looks like hed rather be anywhere but in Cork.

**sullanefc** · 11/04/2012, 8:08 AM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

hes 29, will be 30 later this year. He never had any pace to begin with so talk of him losing that is unfounded. Right now it looks like hed rather be anywhere but in Cork.

Its looked that way since the moment he signed. I have no insight into his thoughts or anything, but he has come from a club that won regularly and paid him well, and now he has taken a massive pay cut to come to the only club that offered him a contract. Its a kick in the stones for him to take a pay cut and to play for a team that won't win as much as Shamrock last year, but he's going to have to get over it fairly quickly or else he will risk losing the respect of the fans that adored him in his first stint here.

**El-Pietro** · 11/04/2012, 8:49 AM

Originally Posted by sullanefc

Its looked that way since the moment he signed. I have no insight into his thoughts or anything, but he has come from a club that won regularly and paid him well, and now he has taken a massive pay cut to come to the only club that offered him a contract. Its a kick in the stones for him to take a pay cut and to play for a team that won't win as much as Shamrock last year, but he's going to have to get over it fairly quickly or else he will risk losing the respect of the fans that adored him in his first stint here.

thats exactly how I feel. He is probably my favourite ever City player, or close to. He was a real leader on and off the pitch in his first spell, and especially in the dark days in 08 and 09 he seemed to keep the players together. Thats what I expected to see on the pitch this time around but he just doesn't seem bothered.

Maybe I'm reading too much into his (and the teams collective) poor form but I'd rather he didn't ruin his legacy.

For the record, Colin Healy has been worse in my opinion and thats even more surprising, and although he has the excuse that hes coming back from an injury he is running out of rope on that one, hes played about a half dozen games at this point.