Clare GAA discussion thread

mountgomery burns wrote: »

He won an all Ireland with Clare and Wexford should have beaten the all Ireland finalists at the weekend. Coaching and preparation, and quality of players ultimately may be an issue but it's rare his charges aren't up for a game. That alone won't win you matches but you won't win it without either.

Sheedy is all about the fire and brimstone on the sideline since he returned. Brian Cody too

Yes, but you believe Sheedy's passion comes from a genuine place and has substance and intelligence behind it.

football team for the kerry fixture tomorrow night , tubridy and sean o'donohue are fit to start i believe whether they are late changes or not i am not sure , same team as the waterford game bar cathal o'connor for bohannon , if this is the team to start expect this formation of 2 runners in cian o'dea and jamie malone between both 45s with a 4 man forward line
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1. Stephen Ryan

2. Gordon Kelly 3. Cillian Brennan 4. Kevin Hartnett

5. Sean Collins 6. Aaron Fitzgerald 7. Dean Ryan

, 13. Cian O Dea 12 Jamie Malone

8. Gary Brennan (C) 9. Cathal O’Connor

10. Kieran Malone 11. Eoin Cleary

14. Cormac Murray 15. Gavin Cooney

Donald Trumped wrote: »

From what I can gather, it looks like Seadna Morey will make way for the St Joseph's Miltown clubman come 4 pm on Sunday.

If that's true then it's sad. I thought the idea of naming Dummy teams went with Ger Loughnane. If I was the fall guy ie 'Morey' I'd explain to management that I'm unwilling to let my name go onto the team sheet if I'm not starting. Theres a personal pride and respect issue. I dont see it happening as I have respect for the two managers. They usually go about their jobs professionally..except during the game when they are too slow to make changes

BloodyBill wrote: »

If that's true then it's sad. I thought the idea of naming Dummy teams went with Ger Loughnane. If I was the fall guy ie 'Morey' I'd explain to management that I'm unwilling to let my name go onto the team sheet if I'm not starting. Theres a personal pride and respect issue. I dont see it happening as I have respect for the two managers. They usually go about their jobs professionally..except during the game when they are too slow to make changes

nowadays players would be told your down on the starting 15 for sunday but you wont be starting , back in loughnanes time he told players thursday night that they were starting only to break them 30 minutes before throw in and tell them there on the bench and someone else is starting ahead of them

i think to be fair to the management they really improved after the munster final last year and through out the league this year , better game plans quicker decisions on the line also , this lad gavin keary looks like a really good coach too he is mainly in charge of the defensive stuff he usually takes up the opposite side of the field being radioed up to maloney at the other , big addition from loughrea i think

tipperary team for sunday , forwards look light enough as always :rolleyes::pac:

should be some interesting battles in the middle 3rd however especially our half forward line against there half back line seems even , our full forwarward line could do damage but so can theres , should be a very interesting 70 minutes to say the least

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Donald Trumped wrote: »

Firstly I wish Kevin Hartnett a most full and speedy recovery after his bad injury he sustained late on in the match. There is no man more passionate for Clare than Hartnett who is one of those honest tenacious warrior type players that you need in the dressing room. Prior to that he was having a stormer for the saffron and blue this evening. Get well soon Kevin

Well it was a bittersweet performance from Clare. Plenty of heart and courage which was great to see. In defense I thought that Hartnett and with the evergreen Gordon Kelly were immense today. Stephen Ryan made some crucial first half saves which if they had gone in to the back of the net, it could have been a massacre.

In attack I felt that that Gary Brennan and Eoin Cleary were very good today with their direct running and their honesty causing havoc for the Kerry men. The long balls to Bohannon experiment failed spectacularly I'm afraid though in the 1st 35 mins. However when we pushed up on Kerry's kick-outs in the 2nd half, we played much much better

Crucially though the 2nd half score read Clare 0-9 Kerry 0-6. Plenty to ponder for Peter Keane and the Kingdom though who were quite poor at times.

However my main concern though is for Kevin, who I saw is gone off on an ambulance from the ground shortly after full-time.

Thanks for report.Wishing Kevin a speedy recovery .What players came on tonight and for who?

tonight was a strange one , first half we played like a poor division 4 team , kerry led 1-08 to 0-2 before we kicked our first score from play , the tactic of bohannon did not work , apparently he was flying in training but he is not really up to this level i dont think

1-9 to 0-3 points down at half time ,it could have been a hell of a lot worse , geany and clifford both hit the post and but for an excellent save by conal o'hanifinn james o'donohue would have had two goals to his name at the break , we kicked some terrible wides in both halves too in the last 20 minutes we must have squandered at least 5 good scoring chances form play also some of our frees in front of goal was diabolical also , guys like cleary and tubridy have set a far higher standard than that

in the second half we beat them by 0-9 to 0-6 , while kerry have injuries at the moment they are struggling in terms of depth , first up was a black card to david moran in the first half which evened up the midfield area , then came the injury to james o donohue who walked off the field on his own accord holding his hamstring early in the second half , then the injury to sean o'shea with 10 or 12 minutes to go

by the time o'shea had left the field the sides were pretty much 50/50 to be fair , we never look liked scoring a goal really , maybe a half chance at the end of the game , but had we not been so wasteful in front of goal we would have caused them huge problems , kerrys intensity levels dropped quite quickly in the second half too which i taught was strange for them , after the break for the sean o shea kevin hartnett injury one or two kerry lads looked completely out on there feet

to be fair kerry were missing 5 tonight , Jack Barry , Jack Savage , Dara Moynihan Paul Murphy , Peter Crowley , coincide that with a david moran black card , james o donohue and sean o'shea departing its no wonder we finished well really

from our own point of view , cian o'dea was excellent in the sweeper role , brennan had a decent game , cathal o connor took over the middle after moran departed , tubridy, cleary and malone all kicked some nice scores but missed several unforgivable ones too

credible second half performance but if we had put in a better shift in the first half we really could have rattled them tonight

fire_man wrote: »

Good reviews guys. How far will they get in qualifiers?

All depends on who we get, win two games and you have a playoff for the super 8s, if we play like we did in the second half tonight it is possible providing we improve our. Shooting, if we play like we done in the first half it could be a short year,

The team we need to avoid in round 2 would be monaghan especially away from home, if we get to round 3 we could face someone like mayo or the loser of Tyrone /donegal apart from any of them 4 I feel we could beat any team in the qualifiers especially with home advantage

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

Looking forward to today, not do or die by any means but a win would be huge going forward,

It's close enough to a do or die. Lose and then face into the Ennis road showdown ...could be going into the last game against Cork absolutely needing a win..

Some big name players should be dropped for the next day like John kiely did with limerick today! But won't happen I'd say!

insecurebiped wrote: »

Who do you think should be dropped?

you could pick any amount , probably the only one that played well for us today was cathal malone