{"id":441378,"date":"2026-05-10T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:06:15","slug":"joe-brolly-cork-footballers-will-never-kick-on-while-they-are-so-riddled-with-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441378\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Brolly: Cork footballers will never kick on while they are so riddled with fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Their laborious, absolutely predictable style of play means Cork do not offer any surprises.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/80351e63-6d31-47ad-a2a1-391ffa184d70.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Their laborious, absolutely predictable style of play means Cork do not offer any surprises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The decision to hold the All-Ireland draw last week has turned the provincial finals into the biggest anti-climax since Cork football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On Friday, I posed the question in the Trinity Old Boys WhatsApp group (Free Staters to a man): \u201cWhat is wrong with Cork football?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Their laborious, absolutely predictable style of play means Cork do not offer any surprises. The decision to hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6937,1964,61,60,26885,112],"class_list":["post-441378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-brolly","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}