Looking back at the weekend’s action. Cork look like the Cork of old again but why is anyone surprised. They played Tipp off the pitch for half their game a few weeks back only losing out because of the hugely inexperienced forward line they had that day. Donal Og Cusack is as mad as Davy Fitz when he gets between the posts. I don’t see how Gerald MacCarthy or anyone could argue over his sending off, he got two obvious yellows, there’s been debate over the first one but sure you can’t go yelling abuse at the ref whenever you feel like it. Then of course his sending off transforms the team thanks to his rousing half time talk. A lot of people don’t seem to like him but he sure is a great leader and by all accounts he does trojan work promoting the game and training youngsters when he’s not under the spell of the rebel number 1 jersey.
Joe Canning is just incredible. Neither Diarmuid O’Sullivan nor John Gardiner could contain him. He’s huge, he has a nice bit of speed off the mark, can strike off either side, can drive the ball a mile, has uncanny radar for the posts and throws in a few sideline cuts for good measure. Sounds a bit like
Cuchulainn! Incredible to think Galway couldn’t find a few more scores from someone else. They are the greatest mystery of a team, one day they all play like superstars the next they’re anonymous.
A lot of that of course is due to managment changes. Ger Loughnane was constantly tinkering with the team. As the great hurling philosopher Confucius almost said “HURLING is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated”. If you can’t find a settled 15 after 2 years there’s no hope. He was lucky in Clare to have one of the greatest 1-8 lineups to ever play the game, unfortunately in Galway he wasn’t able to tie down those positions, maybe his days in Clare with Lohan, McMahon et al had given him a biased view of what to expect from players.
Here’s a clip of Donal Og’s sending off, courtesy of youtube.
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