Clareman wrote: » Barefield are a great example of a club getting too big too quick, they had an amazing team in the mid-90s that in truth was as good as many inter-county teams, not only had they Seanie, Ollie & Jamesey in key places, they had Christy O'Connor in goal, Ciaran O'Neil & Lorcan Hassett in the forwards not to mention the Hoey brothers, the problem was they were concentrating on the players in the main team and almost forgetting about those coming through. Then Barefield won the County Football as an emagulation with Eire Óg, this seemed to have been an affront to some people in Barefield and they seemed hell bent on making sure they won a football championship on their own. Now, throw in the fact that they had an ideal pitch right in the centre of their main population, next to a social centre but decided that they should have a complex rather than a pitch so they moved, they got great money for their old pitch but they paid a fortune for their current location as well. All in all a very badly run club in my opinion
Hidalgo wrote: » U21s playing Limerick away on Wed evening. Shane O' Donnell already out with a hamstring tear and Cathal O' Connell now joins him on the sidelines with the same injury, damage done yesterday. Two big losses from the forward line,
Niallers87 wrote: » Is the "All Ireland Champions League a new competition!?
Fireball07 wrote: » What clubs are Donal Moloney and Gerry O'Connor from, does anyone know?
windy shepard henderson wrote: » didnt get to limerick last night due to work but good and all the end result was , the cards were very much stacked against limerick from the word go they were missing several key players from the word go some due to injury others due to th leaving cert ( crazy idea to play the fixture this week in my opinion) although fair play to cian lynch who had sat his english paper a few hours earlier, asking shane dowling to play 3 days after a tough game against tipp did no favours for them either the scoreline might have been a bit flattering in the end, limerick were still only 5 points back with 6 or 7 mins to go keith hogan having to make one or two key saves in the process, cunninghams goal sealed it but his season looks ominous when picking up an injury in the build up for peter duggans goal a few minuets later fingers crossed it wont be as bad as first taught aaron would be a key member of both senior and 21s panels and had broke through to the senior side last year before picking up 2 separate injuries to end his season , he goes for a scan in limerick today to find out the extent of the damage clare's next game in this grade will be at home against tipperary in 5 weeks time , a win will set up a final date with either cork (at a neutral venue) or waterford ( at cusack park) but tipp will have plenty to say first before we start thinking about that yet
spacetrap wrote: » Irrespective of who Clare play if they beat Tipp the final will be in Ennis as in 2008 Clare played Cork in Cork.
windy shepard henderson wrote: » sound for that , i didnt think it would go back that far to award home advantage for a reverse fixture
spacetrap wrote: » Its just as well it does as home games will make the task easier id say
mickmackey1 wrote: » It's a glorious generation ye have there, fair dues... will be surprised it anyone can stop this juggernaut, must be strong favs to win out and join us in the 3-in-a-row club
savannahkat wrote: » I see Davy did not bring Liam with him to Kilkenny. I'd say he was afraid Liam would get home sick and never go back down there. Ah well I suppose we will just have to go to Croker and bring him home if that's the way ye want it.
windy shepard henderson wrote: » i still think that waterford team will be very hard to beat regardless of where its on ( should both teams get to the final that is ) they were no push overs last year and they looked good against cork in the seniors two weeks ago limerick wont be too far behind clare really, the set up in places like doon at the moment looks similar to that pf what has happened here in places like cratloe and clonlara in the last few years at underage also i would be very interested to see how this clare team do in this grade next year without key senior players like tony kelly and colm galvin
A replay will be required in Fraher Field next Saturday after a topsy-turvy matched finished level.
Clareman wrote: » From RTE.ie Bit of a fixture nightmare alright, you'd imagine the Collins won't be allowed play Saturday evening, I'd say the losers of next week will be out the following week as well.
Clareman wrote: » Actually, is Waterford beat Cork tomorrow I hope they put on a double header the following week, assuming Waterford are ok with giving up home field advantage of course.
windy shepard henderson wrote: » there is no way in the world they should play, the footballers job is done for 2014 in my opinion ,the winners play kerry sunday week and there is nothing to be gaind for either side realy in that one , and most people back here in west clare would agree with me , we would need the 2 lads on sunday in thurles or limerick it would be great , but it would never happen, when clare went down to thurles last march to play a double header against tipperary they put the football on second to presevre the pitch, if the same was to happen next sunday the football game wouldnt start until after 6 o clock, .....i doubt many people would be willing to stay until half 7 / 8 o clock on a sunday night for it
windy shepard henderson wrote: » clare 2-08 waterford 2-08 not the result that was expcected today but credit waterford for battling right to the very end , a paul white point just at the final whistle means a fixture headache next weekend as the hurlers are due to take on cork/waterford in the hurling on sunday ,so we will be without the two collins brothers , i would expect the game to be fixed for next saterday in dungarvin the footballers main objective for 2014 has already been completed but i am sure colm collins men would have expected them to pick up one or two wins before a championship exit
Gael85 wrote: » Surely Sean Collins should be allowed to play for footballers on Saturday considering he barely featured for hurlers over last 12 months?
Clareman wrote: » There could be quite the difference in regards to the qualifiers draw by winning the first round, still, nice to win a match, we aren't going to get better by playing division 4 teams. By the way, I agree, the lads shouldn't be risked but if 1 of them aren't going to figure on the Sunday they should be allowed play.
GrandSoftDay wrote: » Apparently he has been flying in training and challenge games. He could well feature somewhere in Davys plans. He was injured last year so it was easy forget about him.
Boots234 wrote: » Should there have been a band and parade before the football game yesterday similar to what has been there before the hurling games for the past few weeks? It's a championship game but yesterday there wasn't even music on the tannoy beforehand and the national anthem was just about played!
Fireball07 wrote: » What's the word on the street with regard to the hurling? Podge fit? Who's going to start inside? Cathal McInerney? Darach Honan? Someone else?
