Clare GAA discussion thread

The Queens will be busy on Saturday night!

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Great to have it at home, but probably the toughest of the 3 teams to play.

Hard to know how Mayo will react after the weekend. I was listening to their Derry match on the Radio and they really struggled in Normal time and were very very lucky to get the draw. Then in extra time they found not just one, but two or three extra gears and really powered home. They'll take great confidence from that.

Home advantage is a great boost for Clare, but not sure it will be enough.

It should be a great evening in the Park. I hope the supporters get in and get behind them now - They really deserve it.

Clareman wrote: »

At home to Mayo, should be a great day in town

Let's hope we can put in a simular performance to that of the Kerry game . Mayo will bring huge support with them too

Clareman

At home to Mayo, should be a great day in town

Boots234 wrote: »

Donegal in Ennis might be our best chance of a win. An away draw would be very difficult. The qualifiers is very lopsided as I would expect us to go very far in the B side of the draw, its unfortunate that we have 3 very strong teams in with us. Will the next game be on next Saturday?

at home we would raise our game against anyone , if we got meath again we have two weeks to work on all the 2nd half mistakes we made against them in the league , bare in mind we were missing a number of players , the likes of brennan , lillis , o'connor went of shortly after half time with an injury that day too , meath were excellent that day and in my opinion its only a matter of time we see them in division 1 again ( where they belong)

donegal are in complete transition and yes at home it would be the best time to meet them they were probably the weakest of the winners at the weekend but that would make them a dangerous prospect ,

mayo would be a bit like coming up against kerry again , if we put in a good performance in defeat we might start getting the credit in the media which seems to elude us at the moment we are on a 4 game wining streak in the qualifiers at the moment . hopefully we can continue to make a name for ourselves in the coming years at this end of the championship we are still a very young side , maybe one or two aging backs but there are ready made replacements in killian malone and darragh nagle to look forward to

Boots234

finbarrk wrote:

Enjoyable match in Port Laoise. Clare played well, some great passages of play led to good scores. Once Laois had their midfielder sent off they fell apart. Hopefully a home draw on Monday, and who knows, anything is possible.

Donegal in Ennis might be our best chance of a win. An away draw would be very difficult. The qualifiers is very lopsided as I would expect us to go very far in the B side of the draw, its unfortunate that we have 3 very strong teams in with us. Will the next game be on next Saturday?

melonstar wrote: »

For the Munster Final next Sunday, would I be right thinking that the Killinan End is the Clare end?

For certain.

not a good day for the minor footballers against kerry in the munster final , hopfully they can redeem themselves in a more winable game in the 1/4 finals , kerry will have very little trouble against most teams at this level this year i think , guys like david clifford and donal o'sullivan are set to become household names in the next few years for the kingdom , serious talent

24 points is a huge defeat but our aim is to produce players from underage setups , and guys like dermot coughlan will be invaluable to us in the coming yers

melonstar wrote: »

For the Munster Final next Sunday, would I be right thinking that the Killinan End is the Clare end?

id imagine the cork supporters will be in the town end as per usual , so yeah id say so

melonstar

For the Munster Final next Sunday, would I be right thinking that the Killinan End is the Clare end?

finbarrk wrote: »

Enjoyable match in Port Laoise. Clare played well, some great passages of play led to good scores.
Once Laois had their midfielder sent off they fell apart.
Hopefully a home draw on Monday, and who knows, anything is possible.

the contrast in clare football in a few years is amazing , one time we would be lost without tubridy , today we scored 2-18 without him contributing to the score board at all (although he set up some excellent scores himself)

as for the draw on monday , i hope its a home draw , i still dont thing we get the cerdit we deserve , if keelan sexton , jamie malone eoin cleary martin mcmahon ect were on the donegal or mayo panels everyone in the country would be raving about them

today we brought on the likes of killian malone and darragh nagle who are really good prospects , minors in a munster final tomorrow we are a far better football identity then people in the media are giving us credit for in my opinion

Enjoyable match in Port Laoise. Clare played well, some great passages of play led to good scores.
Once Laois had their midfielder sent off they fell apart.
Hopefully a home draw on Monday, and who knows, anything is possible.

Clareforliam17 wrote: »

Great win for the Clare senior footballers today v Laois. However the last 2 Jack Daly Champions, Kilmurry Ibrickane and St. Josephs Miltown are threatening to withdraw their county players for the next round of the qualifiers and this threat stems from the lack of availability of members of the Clare senior football squad to their clubs for the Cusack Cup. Lets hope common sense will prevail and this can be resolved positively and Clare can have no distractions ahead of round 3 of the qualifiers.

dont think it will happen , do you think miltown will withdraw connor cleary for the munster final as well , wont happen , give us a great chance against any of the other 3 remaining teams especially at home the kerry game will stand to us

excellent draw in nolan park for the girls against kilkenny given them a real chance now to advance to the 1/4 finals with a draw against the reigning league and all ireland champions , galway next up will be another huge test though

https://twitter.com/ClareCamogie/status/881202603283165185

clare 2-18 -0-14 laois

good win for the footballers in o'moore park , laois were not at the races at all today and very much performed as a division 4 team , clare led for most of the first half playing pretty much within themselves , missing several chances and keeping the home side in the game, probably flattered to go in 0-11 -0-08 up at half time

game was quickly put to bed with a scrappy kealan sexton goal at the start of the second , jamie malone atoned for a disallowed first half goal shortly after wards and netted the second major of the game it was game over with probably 20 minutes to go

for the last 15 minutes it was a case of blooding new players with several players getting there championship debuts . clare used a 7th sub when kevin hartnet went off as a blood sub for eoin collins much to the confusion of many afterwards ,

crazy to think laois beat us out the gate 4 years ago in ennis , just goes to show the direction in which both counties are going at the moment , todays win was just as facile as the one 4 years ago , bigger tests await lest hope we avail of a home draw in the next round , on our day we are capable of beating any of the other 3 teams the next day out

scorers

eoin cleary 0-9
kealan sexton 1-2
jamie malone 1-1
pearse lillis 0-2
gary brennan 0-2
cathal o'connor 0-2

Clareforliam17

Great win for the Clare senior footballers today v Laois. However the last 2 Jack Daly Champions, Kilmurry Ibrickane and St. Josephs Miltown are threatening to withdraw their county players for the next round of the qualifiers and this threat stems from the lack of availability of members of the Clare senior football squad to their clubs for the Cusack Cup. Lets hope common sense will prevail and this can be resolved positively and Clare can have no distractions ahead of round 3 of the qualifiers.

Mal-Adjusted

If anyone's interested, the Clare Camogie game is live now on ScariffBay radio

http://www.scariffbayradio.com/

Auldloon

As a Clare exile with plans to move home very soon these last posts make me happy

Yes indeed. Diarmuid Ryan looks a good prospect. And Minogue is a fine tall lad.

Good to see that there looks to be alot of talented half backs coming through.

Cracker of a game last night. Great value for a tenner! Aidan McCarthy my man of the match.

letowski wrote: »

Yes, great win tonight, really had to dig it out. Thought we made hard work of it, but the lads won which is the main thing.

Very much lokking forward to next week now!

Hit a serious amount of wides but plenty of time to work on them things . It probably was a bit out of character of them to be so wasteful .

Good use of the panel and subs too I taught . Cooney McCarthy and agnew were excellent . Let's hope we can iron out one or two things in time for the final

Yes, great win tonight, really had to dig it out. Thought we made hard work of it, but the lads won which is the main thing.

Very much lokking forward to next week now!

Yes, great win tonight, really had to dig it out. Thought we made hard work of it, but the lads won which is the main thing.

Very much lokking forward to next week now!

Clareforliam17

Niallers87 wrote: »

Congrats to the clare minor hurlers for beating limerick after extra time tonight!! It 19-17 after extra time; its gonna make for a great munster final day!!

That was not good for the heart! Brilliant win for the Banner. Tremendous heart shown from both teams. From a banner point of view I thought that our defense was outstanding. I don't like praising one particular minor player over another on any public forum. That is because it would be unfair to single out one player tonight it was sheer bravery from all our young heroes. It was an outstanding team effort and everyone put an extraordinary shift. Just speechless. July 9th can hopefully be a famous day for the saffron and blue. HON THE BANNER!!!!!!

Niallers87

Congrats to the clare minor hurlers for beating limerick after extra time tonight!! It 19-17 after extra time; its gonna make for a great munster final day!!

Anyone fancy a weekend in Boston in November? AIG Fenway Hurling Classic.
http://www.gaa.ie/hurling/news/double-header-announced-for-aig-fenway-hurling-classic/

Michael Cusack statue to be unveiled later this evening. Looks good.
http://clareherald.com/2017/06/michael-cusack-statue-for-cusack-park-85009/

letowski wrote: »

Yeah definitely, it important also that the lads play on for an extended time this year, it can play a big part in their development. A win and they are at least to an AI QF. Surprised Tierney isn't there, I think he was a starter in midfield last year. Looks like there is good competition within the squad given the changes.

slightly surprised with one or two inclusions myself , cian mcinerney is captain is'nt he , and not starting , would have expected him in as corner back

how strong is this limerick side the , this on the scale of things is probably not as strong a minor side as we might have had a few years ago but i would imagine they would be in with a real shout