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

Clare 0-19 0-16 Kilkenny

A bit of a non event in the park , a game that never really caught fire , however it was great to see lohan not afraid to really rotate the side against a top side and great to win with that team ,

for years we have been calling managers to use the league in this way , it can only be beneficial later on in the year , both teams had a huge amount of poor wides and sloppy play in general , and the game wasnt helped by fussy refereeing by james owens , david fitzgerld and peter duggan were our best performers , while it seems eamon foudy has redeemed himself from last year , his puck outs are his main strength over the two other keepers on the panel

mark rodgers was kept quiet which is a slight worry , missed a few handy frees and struggled to get involved ,keith smyth tried hard and looks an option off the bench later in the year , but the game never really got going to really see what we have in darragh lohan , conor leen and cian galvin , david reidy conor cleary and paul flanagan very good also today ,great to have the options coming through , but we need to sharpen up the shooting ,

i taught michael carey was excellent for kilkenny one or two stray passes aside , as was tommy walsh and mikey butler

clare scorers

Aidan McCarthy 0-6f

David Fitzgerald 0-5,

Keith Smyth 0-2,

Peter Duggan 0-2,

Conor Leen 0-1,

David Reidy 0-1,

Mark Rodgers 0-1 1f

Diarmuid Ryan 0-1.

yeah daragh lohan has a good few bad habits to get rid of , not sure on galvin either , he always gets mentioned as a prospect for the future but i dont see him developing as quick as others around him , today i reckon he was moved to accommodate leen , i also think at this stage that meehan is getting a raw deal off lohan , hes getting very little game time which is criminal for the talent he has , i wouldn't worry just yet about rynne, isnt he still under 20 this year , he showed good promise at club level last year which is a good start for a lad out of underage

Clare 0-15 0-12 Aintrim

A much more comfortable victory then the scoreline suggests, antrim a dogged side and one that played too close to the edge at times , were lucky to finish with 14 men on the field , and surprise surprise andy mcintee the antrim manager throwing he weight around on the sideline all day , even made his way over to the clare technical area to have a go at mark fitzgerld when colm mclarnon was sent off for a knee into gavin murrays mid section , he protested to the 4th official that he was jumping for the ball , a ball that had yet to be placed on stephen ryans kicking tee down the other end of the field .....

in the first half antrim were dreadful and the scoreline could have been bigger then the 0-9 0-3 lead built up at half time , clare without emmet mcmahon were ponderous in attack but did expand the lead to 11-03 before the visitors mounted a late comeback , to be fair it was a flattering comeback as 5 of aintrims 9 second half points were scored in the last 5 minutes and the 4 minutes of injury time , when ruairi mcCann kicked aintrims last score in the 75th minute it preceded the last kick of the game

a few worries for mark fitz to worry about ahead of the down game next week , emmett mcmahon was sidelined with an injury , daragh bohannon that was expected to make the bench wasn't in the match day panel , ronan lanigan and cormac murray picked up injuries , not to mention being out scored late on 0-9 points to 0-4 in the last 30 minutes of the game ,

hopefully both will be back along with mcmahon who will be badly needed in newry next week if we are to have any chance of going up

Clare scorers

Mark McInerney 0-4, 3f

Ciaran Downes 0-3, 3f

Aaron Griffin 0-3

Cormac. Murray 0-2,

Dermot Coughlan 0-1

Joe McGann 0-1

Gavin Murray 0-1

hold on now a second , your barred from this thread until 6 o'clock next sunday evening , the last time you were hanging around here ye beat us out the gate , not only that but ye didn't win another meaningful game for the rest of the year

every single game plan we had was curbed , even our goalkeepers one flaw of defending sideline balls from 45 yards away ye were on top off.....

i was only walking the dog in ogonnelloe hai ,he said !!

you will find nothing in murty brownes only horseracing talk and football , tis just a poor mans ballyclerihan, also i live up the road so stay out!!

a hay barn beside the shanbeen in doora is where the dubliners slept after a gig their back in the mid 60s so theres nothing there of any interest , that's the venues only claim to fame , we dont want to be boring you with them places , the dog loves slieve barnagh anyway by the sound of his bark.....

your starting to sound now like 'Barry' from eastenders in them paddy power ads , as peter crouch would say , we have been too busy trying to win a real competition lads 😂

it was probably a tough spring last year , but he was the best goalkeeper in the club championship , he has 20 yards in his range ahead of every goalkeeper in the county

but quillagin is by far the best allrounder and shot stopper , there's no fear of him dont worry 😎

yup..... is the only answer lohan is likely to give hopfully not , and cleary on the bench also