They may regret this one….
Cork are left licking their wounds after an epic Tipperary comeback scuppered their hopes of a first All-Ireland SHC title since 2005.
After leading by six points at half-time, they ended up losing by 15, and the defeat was even harder to take given that Cork were heavy favourites, having beaten Limerick in the Munster SHC final before hammering Dublin in the All-Ireland semis.
After the win over the Treaty, a video surfaced of the Rebel team singing an anti-Limerick song with the lyrics, ‘with a knick-knack, paddy whack, give the dog a bone, why don’t Limerick fuck off home’.
Safe to say, after the loss to Tipp, the video, which was reshared on social media after Sunday’s final loss, will be viewed in a different light.
After the game, Cork boss Pat Ryan, who can be seen in the video, was magnanimous in defeat.
He said: “We’re obviously very disappointed as we were in a good enough position at half-time even though Tipperary were playing really, really well,” Ryan told RTÉ Sport.
“The goal just before half-time gave us a nice bounce going in but in fairness Tipp just blew us away in the second half with the momentum that they got.
“They got the two goals; there was the sending-off and we were chasing the game. Overall we were disappointed with our performance in the second half. Credit to Tipperary, they were the ones that brought the energy and the effort and got two great goals that changed the momentum of the game.
“We knew that Tipperary were playing really, really well and were crowding out our full-forward line but we were getting plenty of scores from our half-forward line.
“Diarmuid (Healy) and Shane (Barrett) were doing a good bit of damage but the energy and effort from our point of view in that second was not what we would have liked,” added the Cork manager.
“That’s the disappointing thing from our point of view. Obviously it’s the second All-Ireland in a row that we’ve lost. Just really, really disappointed with that second half. We didn’t represent ourselves the way we should have represented ourselves. Credit to Tipperary. They came up and you could see that they had loads of momentum behind them and they had a lot of good players all over the place.”
