Clare GAA discussion thread

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Just had the team sent to me aswell. Good to see that the ballyea lads are available. Surprised Gudgy istnt starting though. Really not a fan of Malone. Don't rate him as an inter county player. Hopefully Shanahan can get back to his best form and stay fit.
Am very interested to see how the management use reidy and SOD this year. Think Reidy will be a huge player for us this year.

I was thinking about Reidy in the full forward line, if he starts because he is the freetaker, that only leaves two other positions for Conor McGrath, Shane O'Donnell, Aaron Cunningham and Aron Shanagher, plus a few others.

I'm not mad about the team, I think it will do well to win. I agree with you on Malone, he doesn't have enough hurling for what I have seen but I guess we will see how he takes his chance. First chance too for Jamie Shanahan, I didn't think it would take him this long for his first senior start. I think if were struggling with our play, Conlon will just go in beside Aron Shanagher and we hit it in direct.

Very disappointing about the two Clonlara lads but you would have to imagine the management will have a return date planned ahead for them before the championship after they learned their lesson. I mean f#ck it, its still pre-season, there hasn't been a competitive ball thrown in yet.

LuckyGent88 wrote:

Edit: now I know the game is supposed to be on eir sport but it's not in my channels guide anyway on sky. Have Dublin tipp at 5 then Dublin Tyrone at 7 on eir sport 1 and Mayo Kerry at 7 on eir sport 2. Any ideas on where I'd find it??

Its on eir sport 2 sd, sky channel 424. The football is eir sport 2 hd, sky channel 460. Thats my understanding.

letowski wrote: »

Its on eir sport 2 sd, sky channel 424. The football is eir sport 2 hd, sky channel 460. Thats my understanding.

Aha, found it on the sky guide now. Other way round on it. Football on 424 and hurling 460.

buck65 wrote: »

Rumour isn't he's injured. Rumour is something else entirely.

Probably no surprise he has been noted for it in the past . Heard he was injured earlier in the week . Given some of the over the top rumours in the past I was pouring cold water on things

He is a huge loss but again probably not a surprise

Think Pat o'Connor is an excellent choice as captain also . One of our more consistent defenders over the last few years

start as you mean to go on, take out a few older heads from this side and you could be forgiven for not thinking its 2014 again

gerry and donal have stayed loyal to a few of the class's of 12/13/14 and rightly so , they have also brought in a more physical element , podge , and reidy probably the only light men on the side , big night for the 3 sixmilebridge men to stake a place in the team , although shannahan aside the half back line looks to lack pace wouldnt be surprised to see an interchange at times between corners and wings ,

up front will probably consist of a 2 man full forward line with reidy dropping back to the middle with podge on the free roll behind the front two , malone golden and conlon to be the main target men for the puck outs

a win is almost vital to get off to a good start , with kilkenny game coming a week later wee will need points on the board early to claim a top 4 place for the play/offs

https://twitter.com/ClubClareHS/status/829802006604812288

Yep, the goal makes it look better but by God Clare are very poor, maybe the wind is playing a big part..Kingston looks dangerous every time he gets the ball..

Ugh, why do we still have Kelly on penalties.

mountgomery burns wrote: »

Why is Jack Browne playing with Ballyea still involved?

I think himself and Kelly will be back with them after this til Paddy's day, though I don't think they should have played tonight..

.. acutally looking there, if Kelly had not played tonight, it would have been really, really embarrassing.

letowski wrote: »

We look seriously behind schedule, like right across the team. Has there been any ball work done, players like Podge and O'Donnell would never be seen dropping 10 yard stick passes? I'm massively worried about our backs this year too, we not only don't know how to tackle properly, we have no idea how to hold our shape and defend as a unit. Our half backline was out pass midfield for a lot of that game.

The management look like they have a mountain of work over the next four months.

management have a number of things to look at yes , but on the basis of tonight i wouldnt worry as much as others

first up we need to start chipping away at the score board rather then constantly looking for goals when we go behind , the amount of squandered chances especially in the middle of the second half was ridicules

we need a spread of scores from accross the forward line , and while its not popular with some people i think shane o'donnell needs to be rotated from the bench and be introduced in the second half of games

in the middle , we are still too over relent on conlon and kelly for both grafting and ball winning ,

at the back while cleary didnt have a bad game the 3 that lined out at half back dont have enough pace , the least that could have been done would have moved jack browne into a wing back position when caodigan was getting the better of him

cork are miles further down the road then us at the moment , while they do have some good young lads coming through , tonight has probably only crossed out a few names on a list for later in the year then anything else , lets hope next week we can come up with a better attacking plan against the cats at the very least

Clare 2-11 - 0-11 Down

15 minutes either side of half time killed the game off in which saw clare score 1-3 in the last 7 minutes of the first half 0-4 points in the start of the second to leave themselves 13 points to the good , with the game practically over colm collins emptied the bench taking off the likes of brennan , jamie malone and tubridy , while we lost our shape a bit the result was never in much doubt ,

handling errors and not taking enough scoring chances will be the main talking points in training next week , clare could have doubled there tally given the amount of missed chances again today

galway in two weeks time in salthill will be an interesting test and will shape the rest of the league as to which side of the table we will be concentrating on , none of the remaining teams would be that far ahead of us but in the case of avoiding relegation we would need to pick up one win away from home ,

scorers
david tubridy 1-3
eoin cleary 0-3
jamie malone 0-3
kealan sexton 1-1
sean collins 0-1

after round 1 of the hurling , a much sharper performance is needed against kilkenny next week to have any chance of making the top 4 and avoiding the relegation playoff , kilkenny were also that bit off the pace today so maybe with a big crowd in the park next week we can mount a backlash

footballers unbeaten after round two and sit in 2nd in the league , in reacent years the progressive teams are often more suited to this division , olast years two promoted teams setting the pace agin , the galway game will tell us more about ourselves in two weeks time