Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

might win by the under 20s albeit on penalties , whatever worries we might have about our seniors full back line , having guys like michael o'halloran and ronan loftus coming through eases any long term worries , daniel costelloe and ronan kilroy had excellent games too ,

michael collins had a fine game but its going to be hard to find a place for him senior with the likes of stritch going for the same role , kilkenny of galway await for the final two weeks saturday

they are good but we have excellent backs in this team , tonight there were 2 starting tipp forwards , fair enough oisin o'donohue came on late but we held our own against a serious forward line

we are exposed at the other end of the field if thomas o'connor is not wining ball too many small lads in the full forward line the ball just didnt stick enough tonight

if this team starts we will lose , but giving we are up against the master of dummie teams there is almost no point in buying a program tommorow night 🤣

if cathal malone is not back in midfield by 7 oclock tomorrow night , then terrence fahey will be the senior coach next year ….

the one thing that annoys me about lohan is he needs it to be a disaster before he changes things , but in fairness he is a good man to get things right , not one on here could have ever predicted that we would have a starting full back line of john conlon and david mcinerney tonight

daragh lohan was excellent tonight , o'farrell and stritch excellent again tonight if sean rynne can hold his cosistancy he would become a serious hurler , david fitz had a good cameo too tonight

I won't be getting as excited just yet , there is the limerick blockade that has always been a troublesome wall to knock and we have yet to Play cork this year in any meaningful game

We have a bit of a sign over cork and limerick and ourselves seem to go every second game..

We will have a better idea where we are after next Sunday

Clare 1-18 2-17 Longford

A good win for the visitors as clares taltainn cup hopes fade in round 2 , clare were bosted by the return of dermot coughlin to the starting line up and eoin cleary and emmett mcmahon to the bench , the latter came on for the last 15 minutes and kicked 4 points but it wast to be

Still missing a chunk of last years team paul maddens side were lacking up front , longford had no such problems with dylan farrell and oran kenny kicking two pointers to set the tone for the visitors , farrell had 0-4 of longfords 0-8 first half points , at the other end 6 of clares 0-7 first half points came from arron griffin and mark mcinerney

A tame start to the second half it took nearly 10 minutes for daniel renolds to open the scoring the game caught fire a few minutes later when cillian rouine found the back of the longford net and set up a frantic last 20 minutes , mathew flynn struck back straight away as both tea,s went point for point up to the last ten minutes

Four points from Emmett McMahon wouldnt be enough to see clare through as kenny and farrell both found the back of tristan o'callaghans net , longford had a 6 point lead with 3 minutes to go before two 2 pointers ,one from the boot of mcinerney and one from mcmahon brought it back to two , with seconds remaining eoin cleary had a shot half blocked from 50 yards out but as the hooter sounded longford held on

conor meaney , brian mcnamara ,Aaron Griffin and cillian rouine the best for clare , dylan farrell and oran kenny excellent for the visitors finishing with 1-7 and 1-4 respectively

Clare Scorers

Aaron Griffin 0-7

Emmett McMahon 0-4

Mark Mcinerney 0-4

Cillian Rouine 1-0

Fionn Kellleher 0-1

Alan Sweeney 0-1

Dermot Coughlin 0-1

not sure about a treble but a good day overall for most of the clare teams bar the footballers , the camogie team had a two point win over dublin in the park earlier to open their campagin and the minor footballers beat sligo in tubbercurry in the paul mcguirr cup which is tier 2 at minor level

Tier 2 MFC Round 1,

Clare 3-11 Sligo 0-19

All ireland minor hurling championship

Clare 3-17 2-17 Dublin

Senior Camogie Championship Group 2 Round 1

Clare 2-16 3-10 Dublin