Kilkenny v Clare

kilkennycat2004

Kilkenny team
J McGarry,
J Ryall, N Hickey, T Walsh,
R Mullally, P Barry, JJ Delaney,
D Lyng, K Coogan,
M Comerford, H Shefflin, P Tennyson,
E Brennan, DJ Carey, J Coogan


Same line up as last day except for Tennyson, who we would be a small bit worried about in Kilkenny, instead of injured Conor phelan.
Should be strong enough to deal with Clare who rely in a big way on Niall Gilligan and Tony Griffen for scores.
Griffin scored 4-1 against Laois and 1-2 against Offaly so a succesful man marking job here should lessen the danger.
Expecting a big one from DJ as in 2002 final.
Cork v Antrim has been added to with the recent rantings of Dinny Cahill. Best of luck to the Glensmen

KevIRL

It's gotta be a kilkenny win, Clare only really have the 2 scoring forwards (Griffin and Gilligan) whereas Kilkenny can score from anywhere (except DJ this year so far ;-) )

Clare to be with the cats up till about 50/55 mins then Kilkenny to win pulling up.

Darren

I wouldn't get too excited about this game. Kilkenny are going to Muller them.

Big Ears

Originally posted by KevIRL


Clare to be with the cats up till about 50/55 mins then Kilkenny to win pulling up.

you accidently said mins instead of secs/seconds

KevIRL

Originally posted by Big Ears
you accidently said mins instead of secs/seconds

LOL. I honestly dont think its gonna be as easy for KK as everyone seems to think. Dont get me wrong, I do think they will win but no where near as easily as the Galway game. Teams find it very hard to pull off 2 successive games like that - eg Waterford, beat Clare by 19 points (same margin as KK and Galway) then had to rely on a last minute goal in the following game.

Also dont forget whereas Galway hadnt played a decent game since the league final, Clare have played Waterford, Laois and Offaly in that time. So they wont be any pushover.

KK by 4-6 points though

The Rooster

I think it should be borne in mind that Clare disposed of Offaly more easily than Wexford did. And it will be very hard for the Cats to reproduce the magic and the hunger they showed v Galway.

Clare are the one team who can stand up to Kilkenny physically, but in the end Kilkenny's class should prevail.

Waylander

I agree with Kev and Rooster. A tight enough affair with Kilkenny pulling away late on.

Kelter

Two scoring forwards?

Carmody will score at least 1-3