IT WAS A TOP of the table clash in Croke Park tonight as Dublin welcomed Cork with both sides unbeaten after playing two games.
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RESULT: Cork 1-17 Dublin 0-18
1 Mar 2014
6:54PM
Welcome along to Croke Park as we get set for the Division 1 meeting of Dublin and Cork.
1 Mar 2014
6:55PM
Here’s the Cork team named to start tonight:
Ken O’Halloran (Bishopstown); Alan Cronin (Nemo Rangers), Eoin Cadogan (Douglas), Noel Galvin (Ballincollig); James Loughrey (Mallow), Conor Dorman (Bishopstown), Tomás Clancy (Fermoy); Aidan Walsh (Kanturk), Fintan Goold (Macroom); John O’Rourke (Carbery Rangers), Paul Kerrigan (Nemo Rangers), Mark Collins (Castlehaven); Daniel Goulding (Eire Óg), Brian Hurley (Castlehaven), John Hayes (Carbery Rangers).
1 Mar 2014
6:56PM
And here’s the Dublin team:
Stephen Cluxton (Parnells); Philly McMahon (Ballymun Kickhams), Sean George (Ballymun Kickhams), Michael Fitzsimons (Cuala); Eric Lowndes (St Peregrines), James McCarthy (Ballymun Kickhams), Jonny Cooper (Na Fianna); Cian O’Sullivan (Kilmacud Crokes), Michael Dara Macauley (Ballyboden St Enda’s); Davy Byrne (Ballymun Kickhams), Ciaran Kilkenny (Castleknock). Bryan Cullen (Skerries Harps); Kevin McManamon (St Judes), Ciaran Reddin (St Maurs), Cormac Costello (Whitehall Colmcille).
1 Mar 2014
7:00PM
One late Dublin change, Davy Byrne comes in for Paul Flynn.
1 Mar 2014
7:00PM
The referee is Armagh’s Padraig Hughes and the players are getting set for action under the floodlights in Croke Park.
1 Mar 2014
7:02PM
Cork 0-1 Dublin 0-0: 1 mins – 16 seconds have elapsed and John Hayes gets Cork off to an ideal start as he fists over a point. Hayes turned Sean George well there and raced away smartly.
1 Mar 2014
7:03PM
Cork 0-2 Dublin 0-0: 2 mins – Brian Hurley increases Cork’s lead with a well-taken point.
1 Mar 2014
7:04PM
Cork 0-2 Dublin 0-2: 2 mins – Dublin bounced back with Kevin McManamon pointing first and then Cormac Costello is afforded too much room as he points.
1 Mar 2014
7:04PM
Dublin 0-3 Cork 0-2: 3 mins – Very open start to this game as Dublin go ahead with Ciaran Kilkenny punching over a point.
1 Mar 2014
7:06PM
Cork 0-3 Dublin 0-3: 5 mins – Daniel Goulding knocks over a free to tie the teams.
1 Mar 2014
7:07PM
Dublin 0-4 Cork 0-3: 6 mins – Cormac Costello knocks over a point after patient passing by Dublin in attack.
1 Mar 2014
7:09PM
Dublin 0-7 Cork 0-3: 8 mins – Dublin pulling clear now with Costello, Ciaran Kilkenny and McManamon all after pointing.
1 Mar 2014
7:10PM
Dublin 0-7 Cork 0-4: 9 mins – John Hayes pulls a point back for Cork.
1 Mar 2014
7:13PM
Dublin 0-7 Cork 0-5: 12 mins – John Hayes picks off his third point of the game, the latest a left-footed shot after a good break by Paul Kerrigan.
1 Mar 2014
7:15PM
Dublin 0-8 Cork 0-5: 14 mins – Stephen Cluxton comes upfield to knock over his first free of the night for Dublin.
1 Mar 2014
7:16PM
Dublin 0-8 Cork 0-6: 14 mins – Daniel Goulding bangs over a long-range free for Cork.
1 Mar 2014
7:18PM
Dublin 0-8 Cork 0-7: 17 mins – Goulding again on target from a placed ball for Cork.
1 Mar 2014
7:19PM
Dublin 0-8 Cork 0-8: 18 mins – Now Cork have drawn level, courtesy of another Goulding free.
1 Mar 2014
7:22PM
Brian Hurley with a chance to nudge Cork ahead but he drops his free short into the hands of Stephen Cluxton.
1 Mar 2014
7:23PM
Cork 0-9 Dublin 0-8: 21 mins – Goulding edges Cork ahead through a free after Fintan Goold is fouled.
1 Mar 2014
7:23PM
Cork 0-9 Dublin 0-9: 22 mins – James McCarthy ties the teams with a long-range effort for Dublin.
1 Mar 2014
7:24PM
Huge goal chance for Cork but Brian Hurley’s shot is tipped away by Stephen Cluxton. He should have put that away though.
1 Mar 2014
7:26PM
Substitute: Jack McCaffrey is in for Sean George for Dublin.
1 Mar 2014
7:26PM
Goal for Cork from John Hayes!
1 Mar 2014
7:27PM
Cork 1-9 Dublin 0-9: 26 mins – Hayes finished emphatically to the net after being sent through by Mark Collins. Excellent goal.
1 Mar 2014
7:28PM
Cork 1-9 Dublin 0-10: 26 mins – Dublin point is scored by Ciaran Reddin.
1 Mar 2014
7:28PM
Cork 1-10 Dublin 0-10: 27 mins – Cork go back in front by three points after a lovely effort by Fintan Goold.
1 Mar 2014
7:29PM
Substitute: Cork bring on Kevin Crowley for Conor Dorman.
1 Mar 2014
7:30PM
Goal chance for Dublin but Bryan Cullen’s palmed effort brings out a good reflex save in Ken O’Halloran.
1 Mar 2014
7:32PM
Cork 1-10 Dublin 0-11: 31 mins – Cluxton knocks over a free for Dublin.
1 Mar 2014
7:33PM
Cork 1-10 Dublin 0-12: 32 mins – Now Ciaran Reddin points for Dublin.
1 Mar 2014
7:33PM
Cork 1-11 Dublin 0-12: 32 mins – Paul Kerrigan bangs over his first point of the game for Cork.
1 Mar 2014
7:37PM
Half-Time: Cork 1-11 Dublin 0-12
1 Mar 2014
7:39PM
Very entertaining encounter so far, we’ll be back shortly with the second-half action.
Cork 1-11 Dublin 0-13: 38 mins – Cormac Costello points a free for Dublin.
1 Mar 2014
7:57PM
Substitutes: Half-time changes on both sides. Dublin bring in Dara Nelson for Eric Lowndes. On the Cork team, Donal Og Hodnett is in for Noel Galvin which prompts a positional reshuffle.
1 Mar 2014
7:59PM
Cork 1-12 Dublin 0-13: 40 mins – Another brilliant free from Daniel Goulding, from just under the Cusack Stand after John Hayes was fouled.
1 Mar 2014
8:00PM
Cork 1-13 Dublin 0-13: 41 mins- Donal Og Hodnett calmly knocks over another point for Cork.
1 Mar 2014
8:01PM
Cork 1-14 Dublin 0-13: 43 mins – Goulding taps over another free for Cork.
1 Mar 2014
8:04PM
Cian O’Sullivan shoots wide for Dublin.
1 Mar 2014
8:05PM
Substitute: Dublin bring in Eoghan O’Gara for Davy Byrne.
1 Mar 2014
8:05PM
Cork 1-14 Dublin 0-14: 47 mins – Kevin McManamon picks off a lovely point for Dublin off his left.
1 Mar 2014
8:08PM
Dublin hitting some bad wides as they try to cut into Cork’s lead.
1 Mar 2014
8:09PM
Substitute: Colm O’Neill back in action for Cork, in for John Hayes.
1 Mar 2014
8:10PM
Substitute: Paul Hudson in for Cormac Costello.
1 Mar 2014
8:11PM
Cork 1-14 Dublin 0-15: 52 mins – Ciaran Kilkenny fires over a free for Dublin.
1 Mar 2014
8:12PM
Yellow card for Cork’s Tom Clancy.
1 Mar 2014
8:12PM
Substitute: Ruairi Deane is on for Cork for Aidan Walsh.
@brian o’leary: no guarantee you’ll win the lineout, that the other team won’t sack the maul etc. Tap penalty is the safest option to guarantee possession
@brian o’leary: scrum for me all day in that situation. Huge scrummaging machine pushes opposition pack backwards, secures another penalty, play of 8 around the house or 9 to the backline through one or two power phases..a thing of beauty…
@Stuart: ireland got a try from a 5 metre scrum, and two from lineout mauls v italy. We’re not converting from rucks inside 5m as much as we used to, getting held up a lot?
@brian o’leary: I’m still very in the fence about the held up law. It may because it feels like Ireland and Leinster get done by it a lot, which is maybe just my own perception, but it feels way too heavily weighted towards the defence. The attack could put together 5 or 6 great pieces of play to get themselves there and then one guy just needs to do one action to get his body under it and it undoes all of the hard attacking work and sticks you 30/40m back. That feels bad every time.
@Stuart: ireland have a poor record with ref’s and scrum penalties. If the opposition tighthead took a chainsaw to our frontrow the ref would give a penalty against porter for bleeding
Easterby’s best shot at being a 6n’s head coach permanently is with Wales. I think the IRFU will have noticed that the team has got progressively worse over the course of the championship under his watch. Is it all down to Easterby being there instead of Faz, possibly not but as an audition it definitely didn’t go well.
@brian o’leary: Agreed. I think IRFU were wrong to sanction AF going off on Lions jolly at this time when Ireland were going for the 3 championships in a row and building towards WC….he is head coach and this is where he should be…end of. Coaching team need to look at their selection management over the entire 6n campaign.
@Jonny Miller:our coach could be told pre contract that its not an option?
I’m not sure why lions coach need to miss the six nations, he going to be familiar with all the players anyway, and stats can do the rest?
@brian o’leary: at the same time, in terms of succession planning, they got a look at the next man in potentially mid RWC cycle. They should have brought someone like Felix Jones in to concentrate on defense and basically have Easterby do the exact same role as Farrell but he kept his defensive role (which as a result of his attention being elsewhere fell well below the usual standard). For example if Easterby had left, wasn’t replaced and Farrell had to cover defense in his absence. Would we have seen similar regression?
@Dolores Scully: I don’t understand why AF didn’t coach the Irish side during the 6nts ..sat in the stands ? The lions squad are not even together yet…surely the lions gig is at mostly a part time gig at the moment with the administrational/planning stuff?
@Dolores Scully: rubbish there’s November series 25 &26, six nations 26 & 27 and a summer tour in 26 for Andy Farrell to be assessing options before the world cup.
@mark sheehan: well if you want to look at it like that the WC is a 4-year cycle and surely not getting past the quarter final should mean that building/ planning should start straight away. Also, as previously stated here, the 6n is worth a hell of a lot financially to the IRFU…needed to build the squad. And no, as head coach, the team should be front and centre…or is it another case of Sexton’s ” we lost but we won” rubbish.
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I’m not a huge fan of the tap penalty, would lineout and maul not yield greater returns?
@brian o’leary: no guarantee you’ll win the lineout, that the other team won’t sack the maul etc. Tap penalty is the safest option to guarantee possession
@Niall Boyle: correct, but I wonder if there’s any stats available comparing the success rate of the two options?
@brian o’leary: scrum for me all day in that situation. Huge scrummaging machine pushes opposition pack backwards, secures another penalty, play of 8 around the house or 9 to the backline through one or two power phases..a thing of beauty…
@Stuart: ireland got a try from a 5 metre scrum, and two from lineout mauls v italy. We’re not converting from rucks inside 5m as much as we used to, getting held up a lot?
@brian o’leary: I’m still very in the fence about the held up law. It may because it feels like Ireland and Leinster get done by it a lot, which is maybe just my own perception, but it feels way too heavily weighted towards the defence. The attack could put together 5 or 6 great pieces of play to get themselves there and then one guy just needs to do one action to get his body under it and it undoes all of the hard attacking work and sticks you 30/40m back. That feels bad every time.
@Stuart: ireland have a poor record with ref’s and scrum penalties. If the opposition tighthead took a chainsaw to our frontrow the ref would give a penalty against porter for bleeding
Easterby’s best shot at being a 6n’s head coach permanently is with Wales. I think the IRFU will have noticed that the team has got progressively worse over the course of the championship under his watch. Is it all down to Easterby being there instead of Faz, possibly not but as an audition it definitely didn’t go well.
@Michael Corkery: maybe they’ll notice that being without their head coach for a period might not be the best idea, and will say no the next time?
@brian o’leary: Agreed. I think IRFU were wrong to sanction AF going off on Lions jolly at this time when Ireland were going for the 3 championships in a row and building towards WC….he is head coach and this is where he should be…end of. Coaching team need to look at their selection management over the entire 6n campaign.
@Dolores Scully: If the IRFU refused to sanction Farrell coaching the Lions, im pretty sure it wouldnt go down too well with Farrell.
@Jonny Miller: when will they get another chance to do 3 in a row?
Farrell should stay on his holidays if he is not committed.
@Jonny Miller:our coach could be told pre contract that its not an option?
I’m not sure why lions coach need to miss the six nations, he going to be familiar with all the players anyway, and stats can do the rest?
@brian o’leary: at the same time, in terms of succession planning, they got a look at the next man in potentially mid RWC cycle. They should have brought someone like Felix Jones in to concentrate on defense and basically have Easterby do the exact same role as Farrell but he kept his defensive role (which as a result of his attention being elsewhere fell well below the usual standard). For example if Easterby had left, wasn’t replaced and Farrell had to cover defense in his absence. Would we have seen similar regression?
@Dolores Scully: I don’t understand why AF didn’t coach the Irish side during the 6nts ..sat in the stands ? The lions squad are not even together yet…surely the lions gig is at mostly a part time gig at the moment with the administrational/planning stuff?
@Dolores Scully: Building towards a world cup. Same story every year
@Dolores Scully: rubbish there’s November series 25 &26, six nations 26 & 27 and a summer tour in 26 for Andy Farrell to be assessing options before the world cup.
@Oran Burns: maybe our best ever coach and you don’t think he’s committed?
@mark sheehan: well if you want to look at it like that the WC is a 4-year cycle and surely not getting past the quarter final should mean that building/ planning should start straight away. Also, as previously stated here, the 6n is worth a hell of a lot financially to the IRFU…needed to build the squad. And no, as head coach, the team should be front and centre…or is it another case of Sexton’s ” we lost but we won” rubbish.