Cork players on strike.

[Maz]

Its a joke that they havent managed to reach some sort of compromise on this issue.

I say leave them be now, give Meath the game and so on. Cork will be relegated which should mean that only 1 other team will get relegated

[Lionel Ritchie]

I'd go further and say Cork should advertise for 15 blokes (it is 15 who play gah isn't it?) who'll play for them to fulfil the fixtures.

In the event they can't find 15 full-blooded Corkonians who'll recognise this is a petty squabble between a bunch of officials looking to flex their muscles and players seeking to exert probably undue influence on who should pick and manage them -then they should go outside the county and find a squad.

My grandad on my mams side was from Cork so I should qualify. I don't know a whole lot about either code but I imagine I'll pick it up pretty quickly as I go.
I'd cross any picket, even an imaginary one, for the type of bucks lads playing to those kind of crowds must be on.

[pete]

TBH not following this issue much but it is laughable that players would decide who the manager is.

Can't hurt LOI attendances at the cross so no harm if continues.

[Superhoops]

Its a joke that they havent managed to reach some sort of compromise on this issue.

I say leave them be now, give Meath the game and so on. Cork will be relegated which should mean that only 1 other team will get relegated

If this was one of the 'lesser' GAA counties, they would have been out of the league by now.

[gilberto_eire]

TBH not following this issue much but it is laughable that players would decide who the manager is.

Can't hurt LOI attendances at the cross so no harm if continues.

Correct me if im wrong but i don't think they want to decide who the manager is, although they want the current football manager to leave, i think its on the basis of him been a puppet for the county board. I think if the county board give in and let the (new)manager pick his own selectors then the problem is over. I dont think they want a say in all future appointments!!

[gee wizz]

I'd go further and say Cork should advertise for 15 blokes (it is 15 who play gah isn't it?) who'll play for them to fulfil the fixtures.

In the event they can't find 15 full-blooded Corkonians who'll recognise this is a petty squabble between a bunch of officials looking to flex their muscles and players seeking to exert probably undue influence on who should pick and manage them -then they should go outside the county and find a squad.

My grandad on my mams side was from Cork so I should qualify. I don't know a whole lot about either code but I imagine I'll pick it up pretty quickly as I go.
I'd cross any picket, even an imaginary one, for the type of bucks lads playing to those kind of crowds must be on.

Lr stick to the singing kid next you'll be telling us that your a closet cork city fan,i suppose ye were always a bit jealous of us down here

[Lionel Ritchie]

Lr stick to the singing kid next you'll be telling us that your a closet cork city fan,i suppose ye were always a bit jealous of us down here

Well I did live in Cork so I speaka da lingo but hardly a closet City supporter. I've nothing specific against your neck of the woods either. But jealous? Jealous of what now?

I am allowing myself a bit of a chuckle watching the amount of hand-wringing that's going on in the GAA in general and Cork GAA in particular and it strikes me that when you cut through all the bull, the power struggles and chest beating -it comes back to incomensurate reward for the amount of effort expended and pressure borne.

I'd also echo what others have said here that if this was pretty much any other county (except Dublin probably) they'd have been out on their ear by now ...and not just for the league either.

[Ash]

What if Teddy Holland resigned, the players came back,
and then the County Board give Teddy the job again!

Its a bit like the Ireland job, players want to decide who's boss!

[Maz]

War of words broken out again last nighthttp://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/mheyqlsnojcw/

Time to end it now, let the league run and perhaps they may have kissed and made up by the time championship comes around

[Superhoops]

..Time to end it now, let the league run and perhaps they may have kissed and made up by the time championship comes around

If they don't fulfill their league commitments they should not be let play in the championship this year.

[gee wizz]

"The systems in place in Cork for the last five years have seen a Cork team in the All-Ireland final every year. The board, whether at delegate or executive level, have decided to fix what clearly wasn't broken. You'd have to ask why.


just a little snippet i'm with the players on this one ye can have yer league and the championship,they dont call us the rebel county for no reason

[Maz]

If they don't fulfill their league commitments they should not be let play in the championship this year.

If they do manage to resolve this, I wouldnt be against them participating in the championship to be honest.
Its totally unfair on teams such as Meath who are still waiting to get underway in the league, not knowing if they have to play Cork or get the game.

[gee wizz]

If they do manage to resolve this, I wouldnt be against them participating in the championship to be honest.
Its totally unfair on teams such as Meath who are still waiting to get underway in the league, not knowing if they have to play Cork or get the game.

but they can get underway just not against cork,let them play cork at the end of the league campaign the way the weather is at the moment it would probably be postponed anyway

[Maz]

but they can get underway just not against cork,let them play cork at the end of the league campaign the way the weather is at the moment it would probably be postponed anyway

Well fixtures are set previous to all of this which means other teams were already fulfilling their own fixtures over the last weekend or so, who were Meath supposed to play then?
Just ridculous situation, give other teams the games and let them get on with it

[MyTown]

For a so-called amateur organisation, this has the smell of money all over it for me. How do the rebel sponsors feel? Are they getting value for their buck?

Cork have always been one of the most serious power brokers off the field. There's been loads of "talk" over the years of fixtures and referees going their way in the big matches.

It's a kind of a RRS in reverse

Personally, the longer it drags on, the happier I am. They are still GUARANTEED to win at least two hurling and possibly one football All Ireland in the next 5 years.

If they give the beloved Flower Lodge, now Pairc Ui Rinn back to the the soccer community they nicked it off, I might not be so begrudging....oh and UP GALWAY

[gee wizz]

And ye wont let us play with our own sliothers either

[pete]

Why doesn't the manager pick different players for the panel?

Are all players in the County on strike?

[Maz]

Thats what I was wondering, if its just the county players on the panel on strike, why dont they go out get together a squad of 20 players or so from different clubs. Surely they could manage that in a county as big as Cork and fulfill their fixtures.

[McShels]

This has run on for far too long now, I see the game against kilkenny has now been postponed so IMO the teams in the hurling and football leages should be thown out of the league. As for the championship I was at first thinking they should also be kicked out of it too but that will not happen as the GAA dont have the balls to do it. I also honestly believe that if this was one of the lower profile counties e.g. sligo, carlow, they would have been turfed out long ago.

[gee wizz]

Thats what I was wondering, if its just the county players on the panel on strike, why dont they go out get together a squad of 20 players or so from different clubs. Surely they could manage that in a county as big as Cork and fulfill their fixtures.

would you pass a picket line if you had to play or work with the same people who were on strike i for one wouldn't,we don't care too much for scabs down here