Noveight wrote: » Took last years all ireland champions almost three hours of hurling to beat them by a single score. There are promising signs there, I believe the future is bright for this current group.
Amprodude wrote: » I think the same was thought in 2013 they won the All Ireland. werent seen again until 2018.
Noveight wrote: » Time is all that will tell, raw talent is certainly there. Bit more consistency and a better sense of direction and we’d be motoring.
Amprodude wrote: » First 25 mins on both games they were destroyed and 2 games v Cork this year. They are very beatable.
Reputable Rog wrote: » Clare team( some of them) dropped to the train station by bus, the rest walked. Train to Limerick and then bus to Ennis. Bizzare. Galway with outriders out the Holycross road, what in the name of god is going on?
deaddonkey15 wrote: » We really do play some suicidal hurling at times. Couple that with our usual tendency to hit a shocking amount of wides and it makes it very difficult to win any championship match. Yet there was only a 1 point between us today. Very frustrating. If we could actually put together a solid 70 minute performance we'd blow away any side in the country. I genuinely believe we'd have won the All-Ireland if we beat Galway today. Very disappointing.
meriwether wrote: » Have you considered that you can't put together a performance for 70 minutes? You've been beaten three times this year, in exactly the same circumstances.
meriwether wrote: » deaddonkey15 wrote: » We really do play some suicidal hurling at times. Couple that with our usual tendency to hit a shocking amount of wides and it makes it very difficult to win any championship match. Yet there was only a 1 point between us today. Very frustrating. If we could actually put together a solid 70 minute performance we'd blow away any side in the country. I genuinely believe we'd have won the All-Ireland if we beat Galway today. Very disappointing. Have you considered that you can't put together a performance for 70 minutes? You've been beaten three times this year, in exactly the same circumstances.
BloodyBill wrote: » Clare are frustrating to follow. We've known for years that they play with a freedom that spills over at times to sloppiness. The wides situation is something I'd hold management responsible for. It's been an issue for years and they hit them each and every game. Babs said each and every ball hit should have a message on it. What's wrote on Clare's crazy wides?...'hail Mary's' maybe
windy shepard henderson wrote: » i think we need to rotate the personal more often , rory hayes came on for patrick o connor and had a fine 20 minutes , it makes no sense playing our starting championship 15 in the league games lads must be made work harder for a place in the team all in all though you could have no complaints today , the best team won , both teams hit serious amount of wides , clare 18 while galway hit 14 , canning was outstanding , as was padraig mannion ,and david burke , we fund it incredibly hard at times trying to deal with galway's physicality hence the bad start again we fought hard for the rest of the game but coming up short , we never took the lead in the game which speeks for its self i taught shane o'donnell was excellent for us along with a solid performance by colm galvin , his brother scored 2 points off the bench and probably deserves more game time too , was impressed with rory hayes cameo also we would have taken his at the start of the year , its progress and solid progress at that we need to build on it now over the next 3 or 4 years as the the majority of the panel hit there mid to late 20s
Clareman wrote: » Home after stopping for a few pints, I'll put a proper summery together when I've time to reflect, all I'll say now is Tony Kelly can go off on his J1 now if he wants, he cost us the game today
BloodyBill wrote: » Agreed 100%. Cody would have sorted out Kelly years ago. He would have dropped him when he hit 3 or more inexcusable wides in a row. Ultimately Kelly would have learned. He was shocking today . He can't win his own ball and that hopefull punt into Shanagher was a disgrace. Our full back line is a joke. Pat O Connor and McInerney are two 'Calamity Cal' type figures. Two managers are average aswell..Rory Hayes looks like he should have played all year. We've left an All Ireland slip. Limerick are breathing a sigh of relief. They 'll beat that Galway team well. Galway are like an old punch drunk boxer waiting to be put on the canvas .
Clareman wrote: » Right, today's performance sums up EVERYTHING that's wrong with this set of Clare hurlers, this isn't a set of players with potential, this is a set of players who won an All Ireland 5 years ago. Not only could they have won today, they SHOULD have won, they held the All Ireland champions to 10 scores in the first half and still went in the break down by double scores, our half forwards were non existent. For the whole first half stupid ball was being sent into a 2 man forward line who just broke the ball down to Galway defenders, they couldn't do anything else, they were out manned, our half forwards were completely missing. David McInerney's distribution was terrible, he seemed more intent to pick out a Galway player than do anything else with the ball, his striking was extremely poor. I thought Cleary was excellent, he played very well. Now, for the 2 reasons we lost the match, Tony Kelly and Peter Duggan. Kelly just went missing anytime he was needed, he seemed more intent to live on the fringes than getting stuck in, at the end of the match where was our start forward/midfielder? He was BEHIND his full backline hiding from play, he seemed shocked when he got the ball, but when he did get it you'd think he'd do something with it, but no, he did the most idiotic thing possible and hit a high ball into the forwards, it was clear that any low driven ball into the forwards would have resulted in at worst a free. Peter Duggan, first terrible thing was the sideline at the end of the first half, he might as well as driven the ball out himself for Galway, he free taking was of poor standard today and his sidelines were worse, he missed 2 frees that should have been scored and put 3 sidelines wide.
awec wrote: » Duggan contributed a lot, including a goal. Kelly did absolutely nothing. Not fair to lump the two together.
Clareman wrote: » Duggan did a lot and contributed a lot but his dead ball play today help cost us the match.
