Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

1-20 to 0-10 from play is some stat for a home team too

you can see kinnerrk written all over the limerick tactics , playing in zones and great movement it had us in 6s and 7s, the real worry was how they curbed both o'donnell and kelly so easily which took out our attack , and then on top of that when barry nash was the free man he set up the first goal and scored two more , thats unforgivable

i was very dissapointed with the lack of work rate from sean rynne and ryan taylor , daragh lohan tried hard but hes limited , i think we need to be starting stritch maybe ahead of reidy

yeah sounds about right , i think it was longer , i think it was from mark rodgers point at the 16th minuite to whenever diarmuid ryan got his point which was with less than 25 minutes to go

Clare 1-14 Offaly 1-17

Offaly grind down clare in this one to finish stronger , the big matchup in the game was between lee person and mark mcinerney ,and the offaly full back won the battle hands down , mcinerneys marsheling was kryptonite to the clare attack who are missing keelan sexton , ciaran downes , eoin cleary , emmett mcmahon and dermot coughlin since the last meeting between the sides last year

aaron griffin led the line well ahile cormac murray was quiet in the first half stormed into the second half with an excellent goal and a two pointer within the first fifteen minutes of the half , brian mcnamara was probably the best player in a clare jersey kicked 3 points and dominated midfield for most of the game

the lack of help in the middle was crucial in the latter parts of the game as offaly started to dominate the kickouts when the game was in the ballence

Clare dominated the possession stakes in the first half against the wind but lack of shooters and a quiet mcinerney ment scores were a minimum , offaly possession was at a minimum too but kicked 9 points from play with dylan hyland , keith o'neill and jordan hayes kicking some very good scores with minumim possession before the break

With a 0-9 0-4 depict at half time to claw back clare hit the ground running an early, 1-2 from cormac murray had clare back in the game only for shane tierney to palm a ball into the net at the other end to make it 1-9 to 1-8 after 15 minutes , brian macnamara had a super game and kicked clare ahead on two occasians in the but without any help offaly started to dominated the game in the last ten minutes in the kick out stakes and drove on , hyland ,marcus dalton and substitute harry plunket drove on the visitors who were deserved winners in the end

Dylan Hyland , lee pearsons and marcus dalton were excellent for the winners with an excellent cameo from harry plunkett, hard to make too many cases for our lads bar brian mc and aaron griffin who worked seriously hard , a good run out for the younger lads but huge improment required

Cormac Murray 1-2

Brian McNamara 0-3

Aaron Griffin 0-3 ,

Mark McInerney 0-2

Alan Sweeney, 0-1

Cillian Brennan, 0-1

Fionn Kelleher, 0-1

Joe Rafferty 0-1

that was an excellent second half performance , graham ball had a super game when he came on , and where has his club mate thomas o'connor come from , while we all know he comes from solid stock he has become a revelation since his minor days

While it is the the class of 2023 minor all ireland team , marco cleary and o'connor have added so much to the attack , cleary is a real pocher he could go 20 minutes without seeing the ball but seriously dangerous when on it ,

michael o'halloran another from good stock had some game too, great to see how well ronan kilroy is hurling after the month he has just had

current table from the munster website !

given that they are missing , stephan ryan , cillian rouine , darragh bohannan ,dermot coughlin , emmett mcmahon and eoin cleary , along with keelan , ciaran downes and sean mcallister from last year even daragh burns or evan cahill as options off the bench , that is an enormous amount of players to be missing

untill we get a core of them players back we will be struggling in division 3 , we dont have the players to replace them