In an era of evolving style changes, what worked in some of the biggest games for Cork last year didn’t quite work in the biggest game of all.
Declan Bogue THE GAME WAS, AS far as anyone could see, fine for the last 120 years. Who did these pygmies from Newtownshandrum think they were by tinkering with the time-honoured traditions of hurling.
Under Bernie O’Connor, and with his two sons Ben and Jerry the epitome of neat and tidy hurlers, if a little diminutive, Newtown dispensed with traditional values. We know this because of the recent Laochra Gael episode on the O’Connor twins. Ben was the one taking up the story.“We were playing Killeagh above in Kilworth in championship one night.
For those in the Newtown team, the short-passing, possession-based game was a means of self-preservation. Their slingshot in David’s hand as they sized up Goliath.Advertisement “It was us against everyone else. There was a load of people giving out that this wasn’t hurling.Jerry felt the same things.“The ball was a rare commodity to get your hands on it so when you did, you’d look after it.
Cork were stocked with many hurlers that this suited. Tom Kenny, Timmy McCarthy, Niall McCarthy, Seán Óg hAilpín all were quite fine with taking a ball, bouncing off a couple of challenges and laying it off with a handpass. While battles for possession weren’t usually a thing when you played Cork back then, for this game a war broke out for breaking ball.
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