Clare GAA discussion thread

Fireball07 wrote: »

What's the word on the street with regard to the hurling?


Podge fit? Who's going to start inside? Cathal McInerney? Darach Honan? Someone else?

not much news to report as it is, no team news released only idle speculation , and in truth its probabley a good thing on our part here, normally davy fitz's thursday night selections change dramatically come sunday.

the likelyhood is there wont be too many changes to the team that lined out against cork in the all ireland final last year , maybe a change at the back with seanda morey or jack browne starting ahead of donal o donnovon who has missed half of the season so far with work commitments , most likely morey wil start

if honan is fit he will start alongside connor mcgrath in the full forward line , if not i would imagine peter duggen will be drafted in to play a similar role but there would always be the option of him playing further out the field too,

i cant see any starting place for cathal mac, it would make sense to play him beside mcgrath but any time he did anything productive in the league he ended up being substituted later in the game or dropped the next day, i am not sure how much time davy has for him, i think he sees him as more of an impact sub

in one way this is a season defining game for both teams sunday , a win puts you into the all ireland 1/4 in a worst case senario , the loosers will face the mine field of the qualifiers and as last year proved it can very much work in your favor as it can against you, dispite it paved our way to the alireland last year and the 3 games in 4 weeks in july had us in better shape then limerick for the semi finals last year, we would rather go the direct route this time

over the winter here there has been alot of talk about winning a munster and how long its been sence we last won one, the players have been talking them selves up about it too, which makes sundays game far more important then it may seem

Weird game
The first goal killed us we never led after it our lads aren't good at chasing a deficit
Tuohy had an ok game
In the back I think Browne should have been switched earlier but Morey didn't make much of an impact
Half back midfield and half forward line did nothing
Kelly & Podge were way too quiet for us to win
I'm not sure pulling off Donnellan made any positive impact the opposite I would think?
I wonder if Darach had come on earlier would it have made a difference?
Best man in a Clare shirt was Colm Galvin
Cian Dillon was excellent as always
The rest were well below par

Time for MiWadi & biscuits again
I'd worry about Liam now for sure 😢

angelfire9 wrote: »

Weird game
The first goal killed us we never led after it our lads aren't good at chasing a deficit
Tuohy had an ok game
In the back I think Browne should have been switched earlier but Morey didn't make much of an impact
Half back midfield and half forward line did nothing
Kelly & Podge were way too quiet for us to win
I'm not sure pulling off Donnellan made any positive impact the opposite I would think?
I wonder if Darach had come on earlier would it have made a difference?
Best man in a Clare shirt was Colm Galvin
Cian Dillon was excellent as always
The rest were well below par

Time for MiWadi & biscuits again
I'd worry about Liam now for sure 😢

i think when honan and cathal mac came on it made a huge diffrence to the forward line and had an impact on the last 8 to 10 mins , sadly the dammage was done well before that,

cork needed no motivation today to get up for this one , after loosing two major finals last year i imagine they will get one back on limerick the next day too . defensivley they looked alot sharper today , christopher joyce was stuck to tony kelly all day , but for me the lack of options or lack of a big man in the full forward line cost us big time

You have to consider that Clare won the Ireland last year and were celebrating and touring the county, country and even abroad with the cup.

Cork on the other hand lost to Clare and had revenge for last and had to gain the respect of their own people again. Big psychological advantage to Cork.

Cork had two games to get match hardened and iron out the problem areas and improve their tactics. Clare sat on the wings waiting, watching and preparing with challenge matches etc.

Cork second game was over before the end and they didn't have to go flat out to win. Couldn't asked for better preparation.

Keano A Legend wrote: »

County championship goes ahead this weekend despite the senior and minor management requesting a postponement. Clubs wanted it to go ahead.

the club championship is going to be changed back to a more knock out style tournament next year in the same format as the football championship, and infariness the sooner the better, the group phase creates far too many games and many of them can be meaningless enough

if clare reach the all ireland 1/4 finals at worst , then july will become a closed month as we might have have to play 3 games over 4 weeks . good to see the clubs getting there way for a change, anything like last year must be avoided at all costs

the only gripe i would have is asking county players to play championship for there club the day after county duty regardless of the oppisition

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

there has been too many excuses branded about since last sunday , agreed james mcgrath didnt have a great game but he cant be to blame for clare giving away 2-11 from frees , first thing management have to look at is discipline

sunday we had davey having a go at the ref first and then his two cents on duel players and how they dont work..........despite one of the best players on the field was a division 1 footballer

but the best of all was the great malty mcdonough yesterday calling for an investigation in to the officials last sunday, a complete joke, like the late 90s the rest of the country are going to get sick of the sight of us fairly quickly if this stuff continues

the fact of the matter is we rarely ever have teams primed and ready for munster, we have an awful record in the last 10 or 15 years , it was clear to see from the intermediate game that cork were miles ahead of us , generally the intermediate game can be a good indicator for the senior game and what level of traning is been done behind the scenes.
we probably are not that far off where we were this time last year but as it stands we are a long way off alot of teams around the country

Believe me. ..... There is a massive issue here that will eventually break into the media. I can't discuss it here but it is a scandal of epic proportions. Puts the whole lynch affair of 98 into the shade. So I would not be knocking davy or mcdonagh for comments passed in the post match arena. I think davy vaguely referred to it when he said " there is something I might talk about at the end of the year". Trust me on this. .

opinionated3 wrote: »

Believe me. ..... There is a massive issue here that will eventually break into the media. I can't discuss it here but it is a scandal of epic proportions. Puts the whole lynch affair of 98 into the shade. So I would not be knocking davy or mcdonagh for comments passed in the post match arena. I think davy vaguely referred to it when he said " there is something I might talk about at the end of the year". Trust me on this. .

Is it for our own safety that you can't tell us?