Clareman wrote: » I saw the video, f**king eejit
windy shepard henderson wrote: » There was more then just him. Plenty of lads egging him on in the background , had the Gaul to send the video on himself to one of his quilty team mates on the Clare panel . No ties with quilty but delighted with the way they went about there business yesterday 37 point win is one way of shutting lads up
Gaatalk wrote: » Look there has been a lot of comments posted following Clare's exit from this years championship that id like to address with my opinions. The above was some of Davys achievements as a player. With respect to Davys management achievements he achieved great credentials! He first took over a Waterford team in 2008 after Justin McCarthy had resigned and led that Waterford Team to the All Ireland Final for the first time in decades and decades albeit they lost badly to one of the greatest Kilkenny Teams of all times. Davy followed up that final apperance with managing Waterford to a Munster title over Cork in the following years. Davy then managed Clare to an all ireland title in 2013 the first in 16years and to a league title in 2016 the first in nearly 40 years!When Davy managed Clare he knew the limitations of the Clare backline and despite at times especially post 2013 the sweeper system didnt always work the winning result nevertheless it worked as a strategy intermittently with careful planning to ultimately win the all ireland for Clare in 2013 and thats all that counts! Davys management also worked to capture the league title in 2016 just two years ago! How we would treasure any silverware now with the so called 'popular managers 2 of them!' who have failed naively in the last two years to win a title or really recruit any new players ( with the exception of Duggan who lets be frank was almost established last year!) Anyway to continue with the nasty comments on Davy let me say his style while always not the one we all liked did reap the awards! Within 2 years Clare were all ireland champions and not once was he suspended in them two years from the sideline unlike the current managers! which proves he managed for good results as hard as he could! Were it not for Davy the wait for Liam McCarthy to revisit Clare would be 21years and the wait for the league title would be about 40 years! So I am at a loss how some jealous bad minded so called people could say Davy is toxic in Clare. Davy is far from toxic in Clare and I am a clare fan and codone them bullying comments! I bet them same so called clare fans all the same enjoyed the 2013 all ireland win or sadly maybe they actually didnt! The current managements two years are now up they have delivered no title despite taking over an all ireland winning team of just 5 yrs ago. These sad anti Davy fans would be better off debating that and stop dragging Davy into it! Il conclude if Davy was in charge last Sunday or the previous Saturday Clare when they got on top would have seeing out the victory because players would have been brought in sooner, scores would have to be scored not missed (19 wides!) and lastly Davy would have played his tactics close to his chest and would not have let the Clare team be so predictable as in playing the sweeper system again when Gearoid Mc Inerney was out! Indeed the current management were so naive that they went with Davys sweeper system because they had no plan of their own to save themselves but acourse it backfired at the start it had to! So to conclude get a grip Davys critcs and instead stick to the current debate the current management have 2 years got and last weeks loss was the most lost opportunity since 1955 or probably ever! Its time for them to step down. They should get credit for the 3 in a row u21 titles and minor munster titles which was helped by the pool they luckily had but only for Davy Clare would not have won Liam in 2013 and the league in 2016 thats proven now beyond doubt. Davy left in 2017 in my opinion because this current crop of leaders were not prepared to put in the hard work and sacrifices and do what he wanted to in order to land a second title! The team in my opinion were relieved to finish ties with Davy but imo Davy had enough of that. Thats why two years later since Davy left Clare hurling is more toxic and the toxicity starts with the goalie Tuohy who pucked out balls that went straight back from Galway over his bar! He pucked balls over the line to his corner backs! The corner backs when the received shakily some passes from the goalie fumbled them over the sideline UNMARKED! Ask any reasonably hurling fan and will tell you your heart was in your mouth every time with the Clare backlines! The backlines have not beem addressed at all in 2 years by this management! No new or strong backs brought in! Everyone of the existing defence was there in Davy's era! Tony Kelly was woeful bad and has shown even less leadership in a consistent basis since Davy left and management wont drop him! ODonnell played well last Sunday but upto then and with the last 5 years has not! This team were not beaten once or twice (by Cork! Davy would not tolerate that in same year)but 3 times in the championship! How could you win an all ireland with that statistic! Its time for some clare fans to stop saying tuohy was good, that clare progressed this year when instead they collapsed on the big days but lulled Clare fans into thinking they had improved! Finally any team that demands support from the captain and mnagement before they win anything or prove themselves are usually lacking something. This team is currently lacking something and in particular management! Slan!
Mac_Lad71 wrote: » As a neutral I was the one who suggested that Clare would be better off with Davy on the line and was taken aback by the level of negativity towards him. He delivered two national titles albeit with a precocious under 21 squad at his disposal. Since he left I think Clare have regressed in their decision making under pressure and no longer carry the same aura they had when he was in charge. Last Sunday was a match Clare should have won and imo it was lost on the line similar to Cork the previous Sunday. I do not see Clare winning an All Ireland under the current management and better use should be made of the current crop of players as there doesn’t seem to be much coming through at minor and u21.
windy shepard henderson wrote: » After there success in division 3 a few weeks back some of the kilfenora players decided to make a drunkin video lets just say slagging off quilty and there people , in advance of there first round championship clash today lets just say they paid for it tonight , cian o dea must be feeling very stupid tonight :rolleyes: , Rule number 1..... do not poke the bear !!!!https://twitter.com/kibgaaclub/status/1028346674547175426
windy shepard henderson wrote: » Moving away from last week for a minute and focus on tomorrows football championships ,it is likely to have huge implications on several clubs across the county . the senior is going to be narrowed down from 16 teams to 12 after this year and rightly so, but 4 losers from round 2 will automatically be dropped for next season while the loser of the senior B championship semi finals will contest the final spot to stay senior , lose this weekend and your into an automatic relegation playoff in two weeks time , win and your safe for now , the favorites for jack daly this year would be Kilmurry Ibrickane , but without keelan sexton for most of if not all the championship will raise huge hope in clondegad, miltown cratloe and eire og who are all expected to challenge in the intermiedate championship kilrush and kildysart play this weekend many expect the two teams to contest the final later in the year so saturday nights game could be huge in determining thathttps://twitter.com/claresport/status/1026573484850327552https://twitter.com/claresport/status/1026573591939297280https://twitter.com/claresport/status/1026573746931486721
Gael85 wrote: » Can anyone explain the relegation format for football championship with 5 teams going down? I see draw was made on Monday. For the teams that lose a second time are they demoted to intermediate?
funnyname wrote: » How will next year's football championship work, two groups of 6 (5 games each) with the top two from each group going through to the semi finals?
ShortKickOut wrote: » What happened Keelan?
tatoo wrote: » Is there anything worse than seeing a Clare woman, who married a Limerick man, and their two children - who were bred and reared in Clare , wearing Limerick jerseys and supping beer to celebrate Limericks great win ?
Gael85 wrote: » Former Clare footballer Michael O'Shea passed away this evening. Had cancer for a couple years. Was only 39/40 RIP!
Gael85 wrote: » Windy. I see Dublin team trained in Kilmihill at weekend? Were they staying West for the weekend?
windy shepard henderson wrote: » was at the 3 games in the park the weekend , few key points from each game Cratloe 1-25 0-23 Inagh/k hard to know if cratloe are real contenders or not , had developed two or 3 big leads in the game before allowing the combo back in each time , cathal mcinerney seems to be operating as there best forward , interesting to see both conor mcgrath and podge operate so far out from goal, both billy conors and diarmuid ryan look like good prospects in the making both held free taking duties , connors scored 0-9 in total 0-7 from placed balls and 4 wides , ryan also struck 4 two from play also wides but landed 3 huge scores from his own half of the field Both teams had a 50% stake in the puck outs Cratloe had 45 shots on goal scoring 26 , 1-15 of which came from play 14 wides ,11 of which came from play inagh/k had david fitzgearld sent off late in the second half for two yellow cards , were heavily influenced by the arthur brothers , Ger scoring 0-3 from play while his brother niall scored 0-10 , 0-8 from placed balls , they created less chances then cratloe but were much more efficient scoring ,0-14 points from 19 attempts from play and total had a total of 30 shots on goal scoring 23 only shting 6 wides , they conceded 17 frees to cratloes 10
BloodyBill wrote: » Depends if they are from Parteen or Meelick or Shannon banks. Half the people there consider themselves Limerick.
