Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

lack of seating is dreadful to be fair , i am sure there are worse though , cork has a great stadium but it would taky you a couple of years to get out of the place afterwards

I think that is half the problem the towns up the road, I went by the jack lynch tunnel one time and barely made the start of the game once a few years back,

Maybe it's just me using the wrong roads , everyone gives out about Galway, luckily I know Galway much better than cork and never had any problems getting out of you know the side roads and that , I probably just don't know cork city well enough

i dont think it was a missed opportunity , i think it was a stunt , the likes of niall romer are right to be asking the questions as to what the hell was going on at the time ,

a few people were short a few bob at the time , by getting a grant to build new dressing rooms and a new roof allowed for one or two people to clear their finances elsewhere

i know of a blocklayer that put in a price to build the new building beside the stand , he put in a fair price as he saw it to the board , a few days later he got a phone call back from the sectuary at the time to put in a proper bid in so we could all get somthing out of it (x3 times the price)

anyone that called it out at the time was famously branded as a keyboard warrior if you remember

mixed the good with the bad , i had no fear of rynne despite his lack of league games but i wasnt expecting that type of performance , o'farrell is now our number 6 and another good showing , the forwards are electric when they get going but we still have huge issues in midfield at time and our full back line was all over the place

the penalty concession was very soft but so were the the two Bennett goals from play , there is a hell of a lot to work and improve on but its a good complaint after a 6 point win

4th goal was shocking , conor leen dragged out to nearly midfield following his man , cleary insisted on following his man out to the sideline , we were 7 points up , let them off and hold our positions

it dose but all 3 players played well , all 3 inside backs did not , malone was dragged back to in front of the full back line as extra cover but clearly is not his position

i cant see the obvious change of moving Malone back to midfield and dropping Darragh, maybe move him back into the full back line but bar a couple of scores he done zero in the middle 3rd and added to the pressure the half back line was under

there isn't many players available to make a difference especially against limerick other than david mc who is currently injured

cusack pk has a great atmosphere but the lack of seating is a joke, if they dont want to spend the money clare gaa should look to using the Gaelic grounds for bigger games

yeah Ballinasloe is a cold miserable ground , its years since i was in Athenry , atmosphere was good though

County championship draws took place tonight some serious groups drawn in the senior hurling championship , impossable to call a winner with them groups

Clare 1-14 2-19 Kerry

An expected win for the visitors but from a clare point of view it was a promising performance after a poor league campagin , excellent performances from brian mc and aaron griffin who had a great battle with tom o'sullivan until the kerry man picked up an injury

ronan lanigan had his best game all year in the full back line , i would have prefered if cillian brennan was picking up david clifford rather than ikem , ikem done an excellent job on paudi a few years ago and stoped alot of ball into the brother , his forward runs were missed too

its a good performance with so many key players missing , i am sure kerry will improve on this too but we can be happy with todays work and hopfully a stepping stone for the tailtenn cup and more improtantly next years league and hopfully a promotion back to division 2

Clare Scorers

Mark McInerney 0-6

Aarron Griffin 0-4

Alan Sweeney 1-0

Conor Meaney 0-2

Brian McNamara 0-1

Cormac Muarry 0-1

he wound him up for sure but i think there are better man markers in the side , clifford scored 1-5 from play

yeah the selection process is still a little strange , one or two pasangers still in the side

we need to be brining that kind of performance into next years league , its still looking like down will be in the tailtenn cup i cant see us wining it