Clare GAA Discussion part 2 , No Purple Jumpers Allowed !!

the performances of gunning, evan price ,ronan kilroy mathew O'Halloran were Absolut top class , some of the scores from the likes of collins and obrien in the first half and the excellent james heagerty in the second were brilliant , the goal heagerty got was lucky but it was deserved luck , in fairness , the work rate in the middle 3rd in that heat today was unreal , the scores late on by harry doherty and eoin carey put the icing on the cake , the clarecastle lad is only 15 and carey from cratloe a year older , fred hegerty came on also and made some impact he is underage again next year also

the future is looking very bright indeed , i wrote off our chances today due to the brilliance of the galway forwards , but hurling is always about workrate by god did they put in some shift today

delighted fpr brian oconnell , just over 10 years ago he surrendered his clare senior captains armband in the middle of hi career to seek work in austrailia , had he stayed around a couple of more years and he could have had an all ireland in his back pocket . long over due but he has one tonight

we have gone from a ban on purple jumpers and any 1970s St Bernard attire on here to the cult hero status of Kieran Keating and the current county board , brilliant people and at the home coming tonight the kilbaha native led the way , tip of the hat to michael o'connor, Dierdre Chaplin , and Deirdre Murphy , leadership starts from the top

i think the clubs got the last of the tickets tonight , sell out almost confirmed

We are in dangerous tertiary with the new st adians NS song , the workplace of big john and former stomping ground of ger loughnane

while the song is excellent it sails very close to the wind of one of the finest sub pop records of all time by the knife , later a smash hit for Jose Gonzales

it reminds me of the song for ireland episode of FR Ted , no one is going to notice until someone starts whistling it in the elevator in croke pk later on in the year , the last thng we need now is to have to knock the seated stand and rebuild it to the same scale and size just to pay off someone else's debts off ...again 🤣

looking forward now to tomorrow , was totally against the idea of giving them home advantage two weeks ago , but in truth it seems to be a slight master stroke , it has put added pressure on the home side to polish off the five in a row , it has both counties in a frenzy and after the last 3 championship meetings there has been no more then a puck of a ball between the sides

this is one of them games that has all the hall marks of next score wins hurling as the game hits the 70th minute tomorrow , i feel we will have to score more then 1-24 or 0-27 points to win this , 30 points needs to be our target and hope its enough , limerick are starting to hit the groove now and were back scoring 3-25 against cork which is top level stuff for any team we cant let them anywhere near 34 points if we want to have a chance

the players we need the most to perform tomorrow are the likes of cathal malone , ryan taylor , david mc and david ryan and especially young hogan and rory hayes in the two corners , if cleary starts i cant see him playing out a full game no matter how bullish he is , i expect a huge performance from conlon and i dont think that is under any question

we have plenty of scorers up front , but this is a game for grafters and we will have to work as hard as we ever have before to get over the line , if we hit the 30 point mark Mick Macky will spend his next 12 months in his old stomping ground of Ardnacrusha and surroundings where he worked most of his life , i imagine he would love this current trilogy of games between the sides over the last 10 years especially and particularly the last 4 or 5 years , be it as player , manager umpire or supporter

give me two minutes i might be able to help ,