2025 FAI Cup

[Nesta99]

Was as dull as a cup final gets really. Nobody at Rover and Bohs cares but it sums up Corks season of could and should be better. Card made a bit of a difference but tbh Rovers looked like the side that were going to take control. A lot of empty sections seems like a regression. Neutrals didnt bother, prices up? Dont know how many Cork fans travelled but Id say it was down on revious finals simply after relegation. As a game it was going through the motions stuff. Play-off final was more interesting to watch.

[outspoken]

Was as dull as a cup final gets really. Nobody at Rover and Bohs cares but it sums up Corks season of could and should be better. Card made a bit of a difference but tbh Rovers looked like the side that were going to take control. A lot of empty sections seems like a regression. Neutrals didnt bother, prices up? Dont know how many Cork fans travelled but Id say it was down on revious finals simply after relegation. As a game it was going through the motions stuff. Play-off final was more interesting to watch.

Fully agree, felt massively underwhelmed by it. Out of interest, did many people on here attend? I never saw another LOI jersey all day apart from the tow finalists which is unusual for cup final day.

[Shinkicker]

Shamrock Rangers? What are you like 12 years old?

I did it to poke fun at them as their previous sponsor 888 (looked like three poppies) and to see would some sucker react. Guess what? One did. Have you got your Mr Serious head on today?

[sbgawa]

I was there . Big surpriae
I felt incredibly rwlaxed from the start even when cork had a couple of shots i felt if they scored we would have juat upped a gear.

[Shinkicker]

I was there . Big surpriae
I felt incredibly rwlaxed from the start even when cork had a couple of shots i felt if they scored we would have juat upped a gear.

It looked fairly comfortable and was only a matter of time before you scored. Once they went down to 10 it was a matter of how many you would score. 2-0 left the whole thing looking respectable for both teams

[Kiki Balboa]

I was there . Big surpriae
I felt incredibly rwlaxed from the start even when cork had a couple of shots i felt if they scored we would have juat upped a gear.

Woke up even more annoyed at Cork they couldn't force Rovers to have to find another gear in a Cup final.

Rovers have played a huge amount of football this year, and where just back from Athens from a Thursday game. You couldn't have asked for better time to play Rovers in a final.

All they had to be was disciplined - Rovers were looking a bit sloppy to give them hope. Instead, we got a Cork team that didnt want to be there.

Two years in a row that a team has completely rolled over in the showcase.

Cork might have always lost that game , but go and make the other team beat you, dont beat yourself first.

You'd have to wonder about Nash how he couldn't galvanise a club going into a cup final , nevermind his bizarre in-game decisions. I will never understand taking off your captain center back and most senior player / holding midfielder right after conceding and being a man down. To throw your shape away at that time when you need to hold on is just ... I cant ...

It doesn't take a genius to work out you weren't going to get a grip of the game with those subs. Best is to keep the game alive and get into the last 10 where maybe Rovers might retreat to give you a chance.. Instead, you gift a second goal, and its over then and there.