Rarely has any team taken such a pummelling during a pre-match build up. Cork were slaughtered by Joe Brolly in his Sunday Independent column and he returned to his theme in the opening salvo on the Sunday Game.
Colm O'Rourke piled on with similar abandon and reserved some contemptuous words for the Cork supporters. Of course, he made clear he doesn't regard many of those in Cork colours in Killarney as 'supporters'
There will be a lot of Cork people in Killarney today but I wouldn't call them Cork supporters. There were very few of them at the match in Pairc Ui Chaoimh last year.
His comments echo an argument made by John Fogarty in the Irish Examiner during the week who suggested that the Cork hordes who travel down to Killarney on alternate summers are merely going down to soak up the atmosphere in the tourist town.
Both Brolly and O'Rourke made much of Cork's supposedly poor record in Munster against Kerry. While it's true that Cork haven't won in Killarney since 1995, there have been a fair number of draws in the fixture, with Cork winning the replay in 2002, 2006 and 2009. Of course, in all three of those years, Kerry subsequently beat Cork in Croke Park.
@TheSundayGame cork footballers get more supporters than the Meath and Kerry hurlers do put together, nothing said about that Colm o rourke
— Patrick Buckley (@DrPuffyFace) July 5, 2015
By god Colm O Rourke was out to get cork there in his first few words on the Sunday Game ??? — Adam Curley (@adamcurlaaay) July 5, 2015
Colm O'Rourke and @JoeBrolly1993 tear strips out of Cork, saying we've nothing....before showing Alan Quirks with 6 Munster medals. ??????
— Jamie Cal (@TheDailyJamie) July 5, 2015
Read more: 'Rebels, My Arse' - Joe Brolly Writes Scathing Commentary Of Cork Footballers
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