Shane and Michael review the All-Ireland Under-20 final between Cork and Offaly and some of the tough tackling seen by The Rebels.
Michael Verney believes that Cork should have had a red card in their All-Ireland Under-20 final win over his native Offaly.
Faithful manager Leo OโConnor was unhappy with some of the tackling by the Rebels, including a hit on Cormac Egan and a rugby tackle by Eoin Downey on Dan Bourke.
โOne or two things happened in the first half, absolutely cynical hurling and that leaves a bit of a sour taste,โ said the Limerick native.
Meanwhile Rebels boss Ben OโConnor replied: โYou do what you have to do to win and if youโre going to be looking at things like that after, you can go through them with a fine-tooth combย and thereโs lots of mistakes on both sides.
โLook, we won by eight or nine points, job done for Cork.โ
Verney and co-host Shane Stapleton had it out.
โCork probably did rough up Offaly to some respect,โ says the Offaly man.
โRoughing up is one way of putting it; if you have a physical advantage over an opposition, you try to use it and I definitely think they did.
โA lot of big physical hits took their toll as the second half went on.”
Shane Stapleton put it to Verney that he has been slating Cork for a lack of steel and backbone for years, and now he doesnโt like it when they go down that route.
โYouโve been slating Cork for years about not being men, that they couldnโt win a winter All-Ireland (2020)…”
โCork senior team,โ Verney interjects.
โYou have been slating them for years,โ Stapleton adds. โThey fairly gave you a direct answer with that performance.โ
Verney: โWell the Cork Under-20s gave an answerโฆ
Stapleton: โWell maybe it was message to you considering everything youโve had to say about Cork over the years.
โI highly doubt they were thinking about me,โ laughs Verney. โYouโd have to say for questioning their spine in recent years, they were not letting Offaly through.โ
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