All Action Weekend

1st Aug 2006

All Action Weekend
Finbarr Barry

Don't think for one second that Cork are going to lose either two matches this weekend. The GAA and other counties are throwing everything but their club urinals at Cork but the Rebel County keep defying their doubters and we're far from throwing in the towel.

Donegal's midfield combo

From sneaky off-the-ball attacks on Cork players to creating a pathetic hoo-ha about non-issues such as the Rebels' sliothar preference - everyone is out to stymie Cork's roaring Championship machines.

The most offensive stab at the Peoples Republic however is the two fingers to Cork fans (by far the most loyal and friendly in the country) who must lower themselves to actually stay over night in Dirty Dublin on Saturday night if they want to support the footballers and the hurlers. Do the GAA know how difficult it is for Cork people to morally overnight in the "capital" of the Free-State? Bullsh*t - of course they do.

Why reward Cork fans with a double football and hurling header in Croker when you can screw them for two entry fees on one weekend? Dublin's football and hurling matches are miraculously on the same day the following weekend which saves the Dubs paying twice at Croker. One rule for the Dubs and another for the biggest GAA county on the island.

The dogs on North Main street know only too well that the decision to hold the matches on different days was in revenge for Central Council's red faces after Frank Murphy got Anthony Lynch's suspension lifted for the Munster Final replay on a technicality and when Cork officials were vindicated in their use of Cummins sliothars against Limerick.

Expect nothing different in approach from Waterford and Donegal this weekend.

NORTHERN CONFLICT
Anyone who wasted 70 minutes of their life watching the appalling scene of Donegal's drab win over Fermanagh last week would have seen what violence potentially awaits Cork this weekend. Fermanagh's Eamon McGuire was stretchered off with a suspected broken jaw and sent for a brain scan. Classy stuff.

Sully and Flynn go head to chest again on Sunday

Even without Graham Canty if Cork use half the cunning they out foxed Kerry with Donegal should be a breeze and we are set up for one of the biggest sporting years in the history of Cork sport'