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Post by surfdude62 on Aug 22, 2006 10:45:32 GMT
I feel sorry for the cork fans over billy's ranting!They are a great bunch of supporters and kerry fans have great banter with the cork fans but they will be regarded as a bunch of moaners if billy doesn't accept that Kerry are a better team at the moment!I heard a discussion on radio 1 last night and some cork fans were still moaning!I know this doesn't reflect on the majority of cork fans so billy should just move on from it now!
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Post by inforthebreaks on Aug 22, 2006 11:29:21 GMT
This is the the independant article from today, morgan pathetic as usual but John Corcoran makes a good point about keeping the provinical finalists apart in the draw, even if his motivation is just sourness about losing to Kerry again at this stage.
KERRY are refusing to be drawn into a war of words with Cork manager Billy Morgan over his claim that they are a "cynical" football team.
Morgan was spitting fire after his side's All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kerry, the third time in five years that they have been turned over at that stage of the championship by their great rivals. But the Cork boss, who was confined to the stands for the match, wasn't taking the defeat lying down.
And he has repeated his belief, first uttered in the wake of a league defeat by the Kingdom last February, that they play cynical football.
Morgan hit out at what he termed was "special treatment" dished out to midfielder Nicholas Murphy, claiming he got a knee into the back by one Kerry player and was stamped on by another. He also claimed that Michael Shields was "blatantly hit in the back" forcing his removal early in the second quarter.
But Kerry have refused to meet fire with fire over Morgan's claims and have instead packed up their tent and moved on towards a sixth All-Ireland final (including 2000 replay) this decade.
"We won't be responding in any way to what Billy has to say. He said the same thing in February after we beat them in the league but scaled the comments down after that," said Kerry chairman Seán Walsh.
"He's entitled to say whatever he wants to say."
Kerry have noted, however, how Morgan has regularly declined to visit their dressing room after matches. That tradition was observed by Kerry selector Ger O'Keeffe who visited the Cork dressing room.
Meanwhile, Cork selector John Corcoran has called for change to the way that the provincial champions can meet the team they beat in a provincial final in an All-Ireland semi-final.
Provinces are now coupled to facilitate the GAA timetable so that provincial finals played on the same Sunday in July will remain on the same side of the draw.
The Ulster and Munster football finals were played on July 9 and the winners, Armagh and Cork, were consequently both scheduled for the same quarter-final double bill.
But the provincial final losers are also aligned with that side of the draw and this is something, Corcoran feels should be addressed.
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Post by kerryman on Aug 22, 2006 11:41:58 GMT
Nicely done Sean Walsh.
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Post by kerrygold on Aug 24, 2006 12:07:45 GMT
sad.
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