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Clareman · 12-08-2018 06:04PM

I saw the video, f**king eejit

windy shepard henderson · 12-08-2018 09:26PM

Clareman wrote: »

I saw the video, f**king eejit

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

Limestone Cowboy · 12-08-2018 10:22PM

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

And they throwing digs at derrick lynch on Twitter today. They'll never learn.

Twiceasnice97 · 13-08-2018 09:54AM

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!

so no one should give out about Davy Fitz but you are entitled to go on a delusional rant insulting the management and the players in a year where the damage he did is finally being turned around

Twiceasnice97 · 13-08-2018 09:58AM

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.

what aura was that?

in 14 15 and 16 we beat offaly laoise and limerick and lost to everyone else with a far stronger squad than we have now.

why do you think his reputation is toast in Clare.
Is everyone deluded or did he bring it on himself

BloodyBill · 13-08-2018 11:15AM

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

Wow. That was some clever stuff from Kilfenora...calling out Quilty traveller style. You wouldn't mind if Kilfenora was some hotspot. It's childish stuff..

Gael85 · 16-08-2018 12:21PM

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?

Gael85 · 16-08-2018 12:26PM

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 that

https://twitter.com/claresport/status/1026573484850327552

https://twitter.com/claresport/status/1026573591939297280

https://twitter.com/claresport/status/1026573746931486721

Great win for Naomh Eoin against Coolmeen. Have a good young team this year.

philip1526 · 16-08-2018 12:27PM

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?

4 beaten teams in the losers round are relegated.

4 beaten teams in the winners round play again. then the two beaten teams play off once more and the loser is relegated

Gael85 · 16-08-2018 12:31PM

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

That is stupidity of the highest order. KIB would have hammered them anyway but I'm sure video ensured complacency went out the window.

ShortKickOut · 16-08-2018 02:01PM

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 that

https://twitter.com/claresport/status/1026573484850327552

https://twitter.com/claresport/status/1026573591939297280

https://twitter.com/claresport/status/1026573746931486721

What happened Keelan?

funnyname · 20-08-2018 12:38AM

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?

Clareman · 20-08-2018 07:39AM

The hurling draw is
https://twitter.com/GaaClare/status/1030896518356762624
https://twitter.com/GaaClare/status/1030896400027070464

The football draw is
https://twitter.com/GaaClare/status/1029080776912949251

windy shepard henderson · 20-08-2018 10:40PM

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?

not sure how they plan on doing , the last time there were 12 teams in the championship was back in the 90s , that time basically 4 teams got a bye to round 2 and 8 teams played off in round 1 the winners of round 1 would meet one of the teams in round 2

if this was to happen the 4 teams into round 2 should be semi finalists from the previous year

the 8 losers of round 1 and 2 would make up the losers round with the 4 winners progressing to the 1/4 final

the 4 winners of round 2 progress to the 1/4 final

i doubt the county board will entertain the idea of a group stage championship
lissycasey had a motion turned down to make this years championship 4 groups of 4 with the bottom team of each group relegated

far better way to cut the number of teams in my opinion but the county board put it down to too many games

windy shepard henderson · 20-08-2018 10:51PM

ShortKickOut wrote: »

What happened Keelan?

knee injury i think

tatoo · 21-08-2018 01:37AM

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 ?

Figerty · 21-08-2018 07:48AM

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 ?

Yes,..,.a Tipp jersey!

BloodyBill · 21-08-2018 10:45AM

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 ?

Depends if they are from Parteen or Meelick or Shannon banks. Half the people there consider themselves Limerick.

Howitzer the 5th · 21-08-2018 06:25PM

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 ?

Kids supping beer? Child services are very lax in lady Limerick but that's not right.

Reputable Rog · 21-08-2018 08:17PM

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 ?

Saw the Galvin brothers mother wearing a Clare jersey in Thurles and she's from Castleconnell. She wasn't sipping beer though.

Gael85 · 21-08-2018 08:23PM

Former Clare footballer Michael O'Shea passed away this evening. Had cancer for a couple years. Was only 39/40 RIP!

Gael85 · 21-08-2018 11:05PM

Windy. I see Dublin team trained in Kilmihill at weekend? Were they staying West for the weekend?

windy shepard henderson · 22-08-2018 03:24AM

Gael85 wrote: »

Former Clare footballer Michael O'Shea passed away this evening. Had cancer for a couple years. Was only 39/40 RIP!

very sad he was only 39 , with a young family , probably one of the best footballers in the county over the last 20 years was unlucky to miss out on the run to the all ireland 1/4 finals 2 years ago and the win in croke park against kildare in the division 3 final

was pivotal to kilmihil's intermediate success last year despite having to take time out half way through the season , had just started to get things going again in kilkee in terms of development underage and was intermediate manager but sadly took a turn for the worse in the last few weeks very sad news ,

windy shepard henderson · 22-08-2018 03:31AM

Gael85 wrote: »

Windy. I see Dublin team trained in Kilmihill at weekend? Were they staying West for the weekend?

Gavin has brought them down to west clare every year since he took over , he is fairly loyal to his roots in cooraclare , in recent years they trained and had open days with the kids in miltown , cooraclare doonbeg and now kilmihil , they usually stay in hotel in doonbeg for the weekend

normally he brings them down before a big game against say the likes of kerry usually 1/4 final semi final stage just as the hype is building in the capital ,i suppose it offers a break for the players to get away from the hype of the final for a few days , although there are plenty of resettlers down this neck of the woods going too so probably not that much of a break :rolleyes:

windy shepard henderson · 22-08-2018 03:54AM

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

windy shepard henderson · 22-08-2018 04:22AM

kilmaley 1-20 1-16 newmarket

impressive win for the intermediate champions probably a flattering scoreline given how late the newmarket goal came , mikey o malley was excellent in midfield as was sean o'loughlin in the half forward line kilmaleys big worry though is there ability to win there own puck outs wining only 8 out of a total of 23 , no problem scoring from play as they hit 1-16 from open play and just 4 wides , they hit a total of 9 wides altogether

colin ryan is still the main scoring threat for the blues , he contributed to 0-10 points in total all but 1 were frees , stephen kelly scored 1-1 off the bench while colin guilfoyle scored 0-3 one an excellent line ball , i still hold him in high regard for the future as an intercounty prospect , newmarket only scored 1-6 from play a poor turn around for a side that won 15 of the oppositions puck outs , they won 16 of 30 of there own puck outs also but only created 14 shots on goal scoring 7

Sixmilebridge 0-23 1-13 clonlara

any team club or intercounty would struggle with out the services of ian galvin ,colm galvin and john conlon , altho conlon came on for the last 5 minutes or so he was definitely carrying a knock , not the greatest game in the world by any means , the bridge only notched up 0-12 points from play , 0-4 coming from shane golden who also struck 2 wides , jamie shannahan scored 0-13 points 0-11 from frees

neither team looked sharp and while i expect the bridge to improve again the next day i would worry for clonlara in the championship , heavily reliant now on michael o loughlin who hit 1-6 1-4 from play but he also missed 4 frees , not sure why totts is not taking them but it was an issue for them all day cormac o donovan also struggled from placed balls in contrast to shannahan who only missed one free in the entire game ,

the bridge created 32 scoring chances scoring 0-23 , 0-12 from play out of 20 chances created in open play while clonlara had a total of 24 shots on goal scoring 1-13 , 1-11 from play , the bridge conceded 16 frees to clonlara 18

Sweet.Science · 22-08-2018 09:42AM

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

Poor enough result for the combo considering they had some hype this year. Flattering to deceive again

Reputable Rog · 22-08-2018 10:07AM

BloodyBill wrote: »

Depends if they are from Parteen or Meelick or Shannon banks. Half the people there consider themselves Limerick.

Bloody Bosnian Serbs, Clonlara is overrun with them as well.

Hidalgo · 22-08-2018 11:10AM

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

Cratloe were much the sharper on breaking ball, I thought they came away with countless ball that gave them a great platform.
Their support play was very good also.

Hidalgo · 22-08-2018 11:13AM

Kilmaley were impressive, considering they were much the smaller & lighter team in their contest.
Quite a few young lads starting also.
Mikey O Neill at centre forward had an excellent game I thought.

Ik or Newmarket will be in a relegation semi final

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