Clare GAA discussion thread

Fireball07

premierstone wrote: »

Agreed, there is a possibility it caused Ryan to loose focus but if it took something like that to spur Clare on, then it raises more questions of them really.

It was Clare's superior fitness that won the game, imo.

I've no doubt that Clare were fitter, Davy seems to be almost fanatical about that but you can't say inferior fitness made Limerick unable to catch the sliotar in the Clare half.

Very hard to score if you don't have the ball.

Clareman

The minor footballers had an easy win against Waterford last night, 2-20 to 6 points, they now have the situation where they have to wait for the losers group to play out and then play the winners of that.

The senior footballs have it all to do in Wicklow, down by 6 points at half time and sounds like they'll be against the wind as well

MikeyGorse

Another year in division 4 beckons,disappointing.

Clareman

Clare down by 7 and a man down now as well, looks like that'll be that

Clareman

1-12 a piece with 5 minutes to go

'CMON THE BANNER

Clareman

2 points down now

Clareman

Make that 3, Clare missed a sitter of a goal with 7 minutes left, seems like Wicklow just powered forward from that.

MikeyGorse

Who got sent off?

Clareman

Shane McNeilis

MikeyGorse

Thought you were gonna say Graham Kelly.

funnyname

How come the game was played in Wicklow for the 2nd year in a row, surely the fixtures should alternate?

Clareman

I don't think games alternate, each year is considered a new year because of changes in teams in divisions, but I could be wrong.

Clareman

I was in the Park last night to watch the minors against Cork, great performance by the team (after the first 15 minutes). The half forwards put in a great performance but MotM had to have been the corner forward Duggan for his free taking alone, he was scoring from the sideline from halfway. The midfielder Morey also scored a great sideline cut. The sub Shanahan put in a great performance as well. Roll on the 29th of June in the Park again

Clareman

There wasn't many there, but my gawd what a way to win a game, be miles better than the other team, play great stuff, allow them back from being 9 points down to go a point up to only come back and win it.

20 years on

Syferus

Great to see Clare get another shot at the big time. 1992 is up there with Leitrim 1994 in terms of folklore. These occasions are exactly why the provincial championships still retain so much vitality, the long-shots, the ten-to-ones, the David and Goliath finals. It's about time for another special one.

Hopefully the bandwagon swells in time for the finals!

Paudie223

Great win for them. It will be difficult to see anything but a trimming in the Munster Final.

CiaranMT

Was there with a few Limerick lads, great bloody win. Jeez, if Clare had played at all in the 2nd half it could've been a hockeying, strange oul game.

ShamoBuc

Very good result beating Limerick - looking forward to the final.

opinionated3

Anyone else here disgusted by the ticket prices for the hurling next Sunday? 30 euro for a stand ticket and that before you put fuel in the car. seriously considering staying at home....first time missing a Clare championship match in over ten years I reckon...disappointing

calvin_zola

opinionated3 wrote: »

Anyone else here disgusted by the ticket prices for the hurling next Sunday? 30 euro for a stand ticket and that before you put fuel in the car. seriously considering staying at home....first time missing a Clare championship match in over ten years I reckon...disappointing

theres only one terrace open aswell. Im a firm believer that if they cut prices to say 10er for the terrace and 20 for the stand they would get alot more people going... sell alot more programs, beer, hotdogs, crisps etc etc

ticket sales have been woeful down here, I reckon that everyone is euro2012 crazy at the moment, I can't see a big attendance, atmosphere will be cat

Clareman

Apparantly Clare haven't gotten close to selling their allocation of tickets for this, I wouldn't imagine there'd be more that 10,000 at it, alot of people are complainging about the price of the tickets, couple this with the cost of petrol and other expenses you can't blame people for watching it on TV

opinionated3

I am still in two minds.as much as I want to support the lads in person, I also want to protest my anger at the gaa pricing. We don't have a Celtic tiger anymore, I think the gaa need to have this point shoved home

Henno30

Out of interest, what other sporting events can you get into for 30 euros? In Ireland or across Europe. I understand the problem when people are trying to bring kids along and there definitely should be some way to alleviate that pressure. Aside from that though thirty quid is far from extortionate.

Clareman

You'd be able to get into most rugby and soccer matches, you'd also get a round of golf in a lot of courses. IMVHO, the GAA shouldn't be looking at other sports, rather they should be looking at the entertainment value for their events. If Mrs. Clareman and I was to go to the game it would cost close to €100 for a couple of hours entertainment, that would be 2x€30 tickets, €5 for a program, €10 for misc. drinks/food and €30 for petrol to and from Ennis (260km round trip), for the same €100 I could get a couple of nights away

Henno30

Should be an interesting game. From accounts of training to date they've been undertaking very intense sessions up to very recently, which suggests there hasn't been much in the way of recovery time. That would tally with what we've seen from Waterford over the past few years under Davy, i.e. somewhat sluggish in their early games and looking much more energetic as the season progresses.

Think that would be a worry for us in the context of Sunday's game. We have a very light team physically and we would be relying on very energetic performances all over the pitch to compensate. Waterford are at least 2/3 programs ahead of us in terms of physical conditioning and going toe to toe with them would not go well for us I feel. A lot of movement and precise distribution is necessary for us to work our way through teams and create chances. I'd be concerned about our ability to do that for 70 minutes.

Likewise, we'll need to be very aggressive to disrupt Waterford, and to be fair and on the evidence of the first half against Kilkenny he seems to have made a bit of progress on that front. The workrate, while it collapsed in the second half, was really excellent in the first and would give you a bit of hope that we might have an edge there in the championship. The way we were walked on against Galway last year shows what a low base we were starting from in the physical stakes though and you'd have to be realistic about what you can expect at this point.

Waterford crushed that same Galway team through a better gameplan, better conditioning, and complete dominance of the middle third last year. They've only lost to Kilkenny and Tipp in the last three years of championship hurling and finished last season very strongly in my opinion. We, by contrast, haven't won a championship game in the last three years which shows just how big a test this is for us.

There's definitely talent there and there's more on the way. Over the next two seasons I'd expect at least 6 new players to come into this team, we're very much still building an outfit that can be competitive. A win against Waterford at this stage of their development would be a very big step forward for this group of players. I'd give them a decent chance of doing it, but Waterford deserving favourites in my opinion.

ballykev

Clareman wrote: »

You'd be able to get into most rugby and soccer matches, you'd also get a round of golf in a lot of courses. IMVHO, the GAA shouldn't be looking at other sports, rather they should be looking at the entertainment value for their events. If Mrs. Clareman and I was to go to the game it would cost close to €100 for a couple of hours entertainment, that would be 2x€30 tickets, €5 for a program, €10 for misc. drinks/food and €30 for petrol to and from Ennis (260km round trip), for the same €100 I could get a couple of nights away

Agree totally prices should be 15-20 for stand covered and uncovered 10 for terrace get in a big crowd and create a good atmosphere for the game. The GAA should be selling the games as a product the amount of marketing they do is non existent.

A lot of supporters don't care whether their team wins or loses they have other things on their mind paying for the roof over their head, putting food on the table, paying childcare etc.

The interest in the games are dying within a few years there will be no one going to games apart from maybe the semi and the finals.

See Leinster council this week announced 300,000 drop in takings and all they say is we kinda expected it,

LuckyGent88

First off, congrats to the footballers on getting to the Munster Final. Completely deserved by all accounts. Nice for those lads putting in all that effort to get a nice reward out of it.

Now for the main course this weekend. Most of the money seems to be going on Clare and i cant really see why. Waterford have played division 1 for the last number of years while we were in B division and the Clare team will most likely have players with very little championship experience.

I'm hearing the team is along the lines of:
P. Kelly
Donovan Dillon Cooney
Bugler J.Mac O'Connor
O'Connell Donnellan
Conlon Lynch Clancy
McGrath Ryan Cunningham.

A lot of talk about Markham for O'Connor, Glynn for Cooney and that Tony Kelly will be on the bench.
Sean collins is out with hamstring apparently and Cunningham will start.

Say it will be a very close game with us coming out on top by 2 or 3 points.

ballykev

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

First off, congrats to the footballers on getting to the Munster Final. Completely deserved by all accounts. Nice for those lads putting in all that effort to get a nice reward out of it.

Now for the main course this weekend. Most of the money seems to be going on Clare and i cant really see why. Waterford have played division 1 for the last number of years while we were in B division and the Clare team will most likely have players with very little championship experience.

I'm hearing the team is along the lines of:
P. Kelly
Donovan Dillon Cooney
Bugler J.Mac O'Connor
O'Connell Donnellan
Conlon Lynch Clancy
McGrath Ryan Cunningham.

A lot of talk about Markham for O'Connor, Glynn for Cooney and that Tony Kelly will be on the bench.
Sean collins is out with hamstring apparently and Cunningham will start.

Say it will be a very close game with us coming out on top by 2 or 3 points.

Full back line Cooney needs to be kept away from pacey forwards as his serious weak link.

Donovan very solid

Dillon very solid all year so far, have doubts could be destroyed with fast ball.

That half back line isn't up to much to be honest , NOC should be in it and not midfield , J Mac is too slow and one sided,

as above possibly play C.Ryan some to pick up some breaking ball

half forward line not up to much lynch solid useless not even rated by his own club men 7 years on panel never done a thing, Clancy rubbish also
Conlon needs to actually fight for ball and win it possibly best player in this line.

Full forward line ok McGrath serious hurler, awfull awkward style of taking frees and misses when under any bit of pressure, Are we over dependent on him?? Ryan won't score ere so should be played out field , Cunningham deserves a chance

Henno30

ballykev wrote: »

Full back line Cooney needs to be kept away from pacey forwards as his serious weak link.

Donovan very solid

Dillon very solid all year so far, have doubts could be destroyed with fast ball.

That half back line isn't up to much to be honest , NOC should be in it and not midfield , J Mac is too slow and one sided,

as above possibly play C.Ryan some to pick up some breaking ball

half forward line not up to much lynch solid useless not even rated by his own club men 7 years on panel never done a thing, Clancy rubbish also
Conlon needs to actually fight for ball and win it possibly best player in this line.

Full forward line ok McGrath serious hurler, awfull awkward style of taking frees and misses when under any bit of pressure, Are we over dependent on him?? Ryan won't score ere so should be played out field , Cunningham deserves a chance

I have never seen anyone write as much utter rubbish about players as you do. You're comments on the team last year were a disgrace, and no doubt you are waiting for things to go wrong so you can have another spite filled rant this year. You're not a Clare hurling fan. You're a joke.

ballykev

Henno30 wrote: »

I have never seen anyone write as much utter rubbish about players as you do. You're comments on the team last year were a disgrace, and no doubt you are waiting for things to go wrong so you can have another spite filled rant this year. You're not a Clare hurling fan. You're a joke.

The truth as the say all ways hurts,

Could you point out where i was wrong last year and this year , and address the points I made. If your able