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Clare GAA discussion thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭thinkstoomuch1


    Deise_2012 wrote: »
    Is Davy Fitz your father? The fact that you keep writing these essays time and time again, doesn't make them a fact. Davy Fitz is an average manager, with serious passion for the game. You'd swear he created hurling the way you talk about him. They were fortunate enough in 2013 that they came up against a Wexford team in transition, they played well v a poor Galway side, Limerick sh*t the bricks in Croker and they beat a very poor Cork side in the final, only for Nash's penalties they wouldn't have stayed in the game.
    Stop talking about Waterford hurling in such a disrepecting way also, the cheek of you, long gone are the days where Cork hammer Waterford out the gate, you're comparing Waterford hurling to Kildare football, come off it boy.
    Any manager in Ireland would have loved to have had the Clare panel in 2014, looking at the potential of the team I was quite jealous, but for them not to win a game in the championship is unacceptable, Davy Fitz is not all you make him out to be
    Look with respect no need be like that
    This is not the ist time you go that road when you don't like what's said
    Debate the points by all means
    This is clare thread and I'm entitled surely reference Davy as he's their manager
    Just my opinion, I respect yours but I don't agree with it


    The irony in your posts are evident with respect be fair you critse like many waterford men Davy just cause he told ye a few home truth and said mullane show me your all ireland when mullane was clearly winding him up and Davy didn't leave on good terms yet Davy won lit waterford got ye all Ireland final won an all Ireland clare yet you say I'm disrespectful to waterford when waterford be fair have done nothing in light Davy achievements recently


    Not at all am I disrespectful to waterford my posts fully justified regards Waterford in i you will find was only cork poster congratulations ye league win yere thread however I with validity rightfully say waterford done nothing yet

    Regards the team eights years ago now let's be fair im not being disrespectful regards Waterford
    I said many times they were a very very good side but not my opinion but as the past shows let's be fair didn't win the all Ireland or get to a final and that team was very very good but won't be called great like clare two years ago when clare actually won the all Ireland

    You try and say clsre won all Ireland out of default yet if anyone questions merit waterford wins v Galway who are poor a non interested cork with injured players you say it's devalued to waterford yet that was just league hurling to be honest now


    One rule for Waterford one for the rest is it

    Clare deserved their all Ireland and when waterford do that only then can ye question clare


    I compared Kildare clare football in sense both were dominant in their game for years yet never pushed on like Kildare loosing all Ireland final and should beaten down all Ireland semi but didn't
    That my point but as usual you try to paint a different picture to the post given when you can't debate points with respect
    And in relation to cork as you say hammering waterford out the gate well cork won handily in the replay last year to be fair

    People rate mcgrath as be fair he upsets no one
    Davy on the other hand could win ten all Irelands and still wouldn't get credit
    My admiration for Davy is simple I respect and admire all Ireland winners majority time and Davy has been superb for hurling
    I wouldn't like to be stranded on an island with him but I'd have no problem him managing cork team absolutely none


    And as regards Waterford respect them, like I any team I respect them win they win all Irelands or show their on the road to it
    I was never in to false dawns in sport


    In both cases imo jury still out
    I don't as you know just read a paper and go with hype some lazy journalism I tend to go by what I see before me
    As if I believe all the hype in past days cork football won all Ireland and limerick in hurling such was the unfounded optimistic views going around
    Clare are proven proven team with proven managers as the records show not just my opinion


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭thinkstoomuch1


    niallo27 wrote: »
    Give me a soft all Ireland any day over a hard one.

    Or even better again give me a soft all Ireland over none at all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Deise_2012


    Or even better again give me a soft all Ireland over none at all
    be a long time before Cork win an All Ireland pal. If you're talking about titles from 2005, it's the same as me talking about 1959.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Vanolder


    Arrogance is absolutely one hundred per cent justified in all sports if it's backed up with logic imo
    All the great great I mean really really great sport people ruby Walsh tony McCoy's the Nadal the mourinho the mcguiness Davy Fitzgerald cody Fitzmauirce van gal even Joel schmidt all are arrogant in one way or another but there absolutely justified as there all winners and at the top of their sports to be fair

    No doubt clare having lost an all ireland minor to highly rated kk by a point won three all Ireland under twenty one titles row and equaled limerick great record but went forward by winning senior all Ireland there absolutely having achieved so so much so young entitled be arrogant imo as it's an acceptable trait in proven winners


    Clare absolutely dominated limerick and cork so it wasn't a flukey all Ireland and even if so fact remains clare fully fit team dominated limerick then nothing say limerick would beat them fully fit teams

    Sunday will be close and limerick could win due to injury clare but I'd agree clare lads bulger galvin Collins shanahan mcgrath Ryan clare would win


    With all the injured players it's fair to say limerick have to win as they don't there's huge questions over them where clare know without injured lads once fit they will get stronger but even limerick fans doubt Wayne mac and breen strengthen limerick any great deal as limerick better players so bar tom Ryan who should start if limerick loose there's huge pressure on them
    I think clare were tired last year and second season syndrome had an effect
    In fairness limerick can hardly accuse clare of arrogance when in the lead up to the semi final two years ago limerick majority gave clare no chance and expected clare to just roll over despite limerick having done nothing in the lead up to the game to justify confidence to a huge degree

    Clare had all them lads last year and they did nothing- they had them during the league and they did nothing---- They're a good team, some fine players, but they are no where near a KK team of the last ten years and therefore are very beatable on any given day. Munster is very close this year - the loss of O'mahony is a big blow for Waterford, but there's still little between all five counties.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Vanolder


    Kelly
    O Donovan
    McInerney
    Dillon
    Browne
    Ryan
    Donnellan
    Golden
    O Connor
    Conlon
    Kelly
    Ryan
    Reidy
    O Donnell
    G O Connell


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,365 ✭✭✭letowski


    crap.

    I think there is a chance that team can win, but in terms odlf quality I think the Limerick team will have the beating of us by a couple of points.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭Fireball07


    Vanolder wrote: »
    Kelly
    O Donovan
    McInerney
    Dillon
    Browne
    Ryan
    Donnellan
    Golden
    O Connor
    Conlon
    Kelly
    Ryan
    Reidy
    O Donnell
    G O Connell


    Gudgie & Golden are talented young hurlers but don't think we'll fear that in midfield.

    Although I wouldn't trust Davy as far as I can throw him, I'm not ruling McGrath out until I don't see him at 4pm on Sunday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,150 ✭✭✭✭LuckyGent88


    Vanolder wrote: »
    Kelly
    O Donovan
    McInerney
    Dillon
    Browne
    Ryan
    Donnellan
    Golden
    O Connor
    Conlon
    Kelly
    Ryan
    Reidy
    O Donnell
    G O Connell

    I wouldn't be ruling out McGrath just yet the way Davy likes to play mind games but it hasn't sounded good for him all week anyway.
    I'd be worried about golden. Has never really impressed me. No doubting his work rate but just don't think he is good enough for this level.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,365 ✭✭✭letowski


    I think McGrath will tog, he will probably have a late fitness test and likely be a standby sub.

    I think Gudgie will find things hard, he has never played midfield underage, and is up against a top LK pairing. His role will have to be defined, but im not sure his hurling is at this level yet. He works very hard though. Hrad to know how Golden will go, has the hurling and atleticism but hasnt impressed yet with his oppertunities, except maybe for his cameo against KK last day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Vanolder


    That team was passed on.... not sure if 100% yet.... But with Davy, you can never be 100%


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,150 ✭✭✭✭LuckyGent88


    Vanolder wrote: »
    That team was passed on.... not sure if 100% yet.... But with Davy, you can never be 100%

    From a source I have gudgy will play midfield and McGrath has no chance unfortunetly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭thinkstoomuch1


    Deise_2012 wrote: »
    be a long time before Cork win an All Ireland pal. If you're talking about titles from 2005, it's the same as me talking about 1959.

    A correlation that has totally devaluation of point in if you think of waterford famine of fifty six years and counting cork ten with out all Ireland is in same bracket absolutely not
    It wouldn't tie it's shoe laces with respect
    A great great waterford team one all Ireland but cork won more since

    No geuine hard core cork fans think we win all Ireland as you will find were pretty realistic honest bunch in forecast team chances one swallow never made a summer but it's understandable waterford starvation success leads them to jump on a win and get carried away
    I don't agree but I understand where yere coming from


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭thinkstoomuch1


    Vanolder wrote: »
    Kelly
    O Donovan
    McInerney
    Dillon
    Browne
    Ryan
    Donnellan
    Golden
    O Connor
    Conlon
    Kelly
    Ryan
    Reidy
    O Donnell
    G O Connell
    A dummy of a team in he won't start them
    Davy never releases team so early a clear dummy of a team imo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭thinkstoomuch1


    Vanolder wrote: »
    Clare had all them lads last year and they did nothing- they had them during the league and they did nothing---- They're a good team, some fine players, but they are no where near a KK team of the last ten years and therefore are very beatable on any given day. Munster is very close this year - the loss of O'mahony is a big blow for Waterford, but there's still little between all five counties.

    Nobody said they were greater than kk but I do belive their the best to challenge them
    They done nothing last year and were tired second season syndrome but won three all Irelands under twenty one and a senior there certainly team be reckoned with and by same token you want to evaluate clare then using it to model assement on limerick limerick have done nothing the last two years either bar here and there so clare certainly done more

    Bar a munster title with extra man what exactly hsve limerick won??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Vanolder


    Nobody said they were greater than kk but I do belive their the best to challenge them
    They done nothing last year and were tired second season syndrome but won three all Irelands under twenty one and a senior there certainly team be reckoned with and by same token you want to evaluate clare then using it to model assement on limerick limerick have done nothing the last two years either bar here and there so clare certainly done more

    Bar a munster title with extra man what exactly hsve limerick won??

    I never claimed Limerick did anything - and this is senior, u21 has no relevance. Limerick/Clare matches are always close, it was the sheer arrogance of dismissing Limerick 'if' Clare had a 'full' team that annoyed me. I still think it's a 50/50 game Sunday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭Fireball07


    A dummy of a team in he won't start them
    Davy never releases team so early a clear dummy of a team imo

    No team has been named by Clare, that's the leaked team.


    Looks slightly stronger than was possibly expected, with Dillon & Ryan both starting in the backs, Golden named at midfield rather than the wing. Obviously McGrath is the big question mark, if he is named in the 26, I'd say he'll start.

    Outside of that, who else would you have? That's very close to the team that most Clare people would be tipping. Maybe Nicky O'Connell or Conor Cleary at wing-back but Davy seems to like Browne and the word is that Gudgie is flying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭windy shepard henderson


    lads we won 4 u21 all irelands in 6 years if we cant find 3 or 4 replacements out of them teams well it was all for nothing , yes we would find it hard to replace galvin or podge , we knew mcgrath was'nt 100% through out the league, most of the fringe players have been living of scraps over the last two seasons in particular through out the league campaigns we did little to experment ,

    the likelyhood is gudgey o'connell will start midfield the likes of bobby duggen totts or aarron cuningham will be drafted into the forward line , the possibility of senda morey starting in the half back line along with the likes of paul flanagan or connor cleary wouldn't be exactly chancing or arm in terms of selection either

    now is the time fore those players to make the step up most of those players have rarely had bad games when called upon in the past just unlucky that the competition was so fierce for places they couldnt nail down starting places ,i know the tallent of podge , connor mcgrath and colm galvin are huge loss's, but i have to say on any other year with or without those players i would still have this team down as one of our strongest since the late 90's

    a win in my opinion is not essential more so a deacent performance is required , we have an abysmal record in munster but we have taken to the quilifiers like a duck to water , if the winner on sunday was to lose to tipperary then both teams will find themselves in the first round of the qualifiers anyway against leinster oppisition , but there is no doubt who the pressure is on to perform come sunday , with no championship win since the all ireland final 2 years ago and only one competitive win in nearly 15 months along with a controversial manager on his 4th year and is starting to overstay his welcome all the pressure i think is on us , i honestly think a win agsainst limerick on sunday would have the same implications the win against waterford two years ago at the same stage which changed or fortunes for the rest of the year


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,434 ✭✭✭Gael85


    Clare (SF v Limerick): Joe Hayes; Ciaran Russell, Kevin Hartnett, Martin McMahon; Shane Hickey, Gordon Kelly, Dean Ryan; Cathal O'Connor, Gary Brennan; Shane Brennan, Jamie Malone, Sean Collins; Eoin Cleary, Podge Collins, Pat Burke.

    I wonder will Tubridy,McInerney make the bench for saturday evening?Shane McGrath is a big loss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭windy shepard henderson


    Gael85 wrote: »
    Clare (SF v Limerick): Joe Hayes; Ciaran Russell, Kevin Hartnett, Martin McMahon; Shane Hickey, Gordon Kelly, Dean Ryan; Cathal O'Connor, Gary Brennan; Shane Brennan, Jamie Malone, Sean Collins; Eoin Cleary, Podge Collins, Pat Burke.

    I wonder will Tubridy,McInerney make the bench for saturday evening?Shane McGrath is a big loss.

    shane mcgrath is a huge loss doubt tubridy or mcinerney will feture both saw very little action through out the league , expect to see davey o'holleran and rory donnelly ( came out of retirement after the league ) to feature at some stage both scored 0-3 points each against dublin in a challenge match last week

    there was very much a heavy training aspect to the clare performance in newcastle west back in late march when the teams last met ,i would be still confident enough even though the selection looks a little defensive , think gary brennan was carrying an injury at different parts of the league too so could see keelan sexton in at some stage too strong enough bench how ever colm won'nt be on the sideline which could be a slight problem


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭Fireball07


    lads we won 4 u21 all irelands in 6 years if we cant find 3 or 4 replacements out of them teams well it was all for nothing , yes we would find it hard to replace galvin or podge , we knew mcgrath was'nt 100% through out the league, most of the fringe players have been living of scraps over the last two seasons in particular through out the league campaigns we did little to experment ,

    the likelyhood is gudgey o'connell will start midfield the likes of bobby duggen totts or aarron cuningham will be drafted into the forward line , the possibility of senda morey starting in the half back line along with the likes of paul flanagan or connor cleary wouldn't be exactly chancing or arm in terms of selection either

    now is the time fore those players to make the step up most of those players have rarely had bad games when called upon in the past just unlucky that the competition was so fierce for places they couldnt nail down starting places ,i know the tallent of podge , connor mcgrath and colm galvin are huge loss's, but i have to say on any other year with or without those players i would still have this team down as one of our strongest since the late 90's

    Is Morey not injured at the moment?


    I forgot about Bobby Duggan, but in fairness... it's not really up front you're lacking- obviously McGrath & Collins would be very welcome but Conlon, Kelly & O'Donnell are nailed-on in any situation. Reidy's been excellent recently and a fine replacement. Colin Ryan would be the only one who perhaps shouldn't be nailed-on but he is an excellent free-taker; if Bobby Duggan replaced him, it might improve the team.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭lim4ev


    Looks like if we win on sunday it'll be ah sure clare were missing half their team very little being said here about our injuries quaid,mac,downes breen 4 guaranteed starters.Outside of that whats this thinking if both teams had their full squad available clare would win without a doubt?thats a load of sh''e in my view clare have the outstanding mc inerney in full back line other 2 average enough,bugler in hb line other 2 average enough, galvin[who by the way walked]and donnellan wouldn't frighten me,conlon can be immense kelly superb and whoever the 3rd half forward is wouldn't send shivers down my spine then you'd have the superb mc grath with the potentially superb shane o donnell and the 3rd full forward wouldn't be a superstar?I think thats more or less their team and yes of course some magnif hurlers but also some not magnif hurlers.What annoys me is Limerick being portrayed as a hit and lash crowd with no hurling which i think doesn't reflect the players we have ok we may not have a tony kelly but i tell you neither does most teams but hopefully on sunday we might see a potential kelly on the rise for limerick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭Fireball07


    lim4ev wrote: »
    Looks like if we win on sunday it'll be ah sure clare were missing half their team very little being said here about our injuries quaid,mac,downes breen 4 guaranteed starters.Outside of that whats this thinking if both teams had their full squad available clare would win without a doubt?thats a load of sh''e in my view clare have the outstanding mc inerney in full back line other 2 average enough,bugler in hb line other 2 average enough, galvin[who by the way walked]and donnellan wouldn't frighten me,conlon can be immense kelly superb and whoever the 3rd half forward is wouldn't send shivers down my spine then you'd have the superb mc grath with the potentially superb shane o donnell and the 3rd full forward wouldn't be a superstar?I think thats more or less their team and yes of course some magnif hurlers but also some not magnif hurlers.What annoys me is Limerick being portrayed as a hit and lash crowd with no hurling which i think doesn't reflect the players we have ok we may not have a tony kelly but i tell you neither does most teams but hopefully on sunday we might see a potential kelly on the rise for limerick.



    There's no point complaining about us not getting enough credit before the game; I think we should win this but we have to go and do it. If other teams write us off, then fair enough. All we can do is play what's in front of us.

    From a first-choice team, Clare are missing Bugler & McGrath. I'm not getting into the Galvin thing, but you can't count the likes of him who aren't on the panel. Waterford aren't still counting John Mullane who could definitely still do a job, Kilkenny aren't counting John Dalton, Cork aren't counting Sweetnam.

    McGrath is a top-class forward, Bugler is a leader but had a poor year last year. From a Clare pov, it's really the likes of Donnellan & Colin Ryan who Davy has put faith in that really need to perform. The younger players are hungry, talented, most of them All-Ireland winners at underage level; a talented side who have a lot to prove after relegation & a poor 2014.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭thinkstoomuch1


    lim4ev wrote: »
    Looks like if we win on sunday it'll be ah sure clare were missing half their team very little being said here about our injuries quaid,mac,downes breen 4 guaranteed starters.Outside of that whats this thinking if both teams had their full squad available clare would win without a doubt?thats a load of sh''e in my view clare have the outstanding mc inerney in full back line other 2 average enough,bugler in hb line other 2 average enough, galvin[who by the way walked]and donnellan wouldn't frighten me,conlon can be immense kelly superb and whoever the 3rd half forward is wouldn't send shivers down my spine then you'd have the superb mc grath with the potentially superb shane o donnell and the 3rd full forward wouldn't be a superstar?I think thats more or less their team and yes of course some magnif hurlers but also some not magnif hurlers.What annoys me is Limerick being portrayed as a hit and lash crowd with no hurling which i think doesn't reflect the players we have ok we may not have a tony kelly but i tell you neither does most teams but hopefully on sunday we might see a potential kelly on the rise for limerick.


    The thing is to be fair limerick breen and Wayne mac are typically hit and lash direct style yes sounds harsh but many limerick lads accept this and actually those lads out strenghten limerick as Lynch have start and once not uses as a puck out option but a forager in breaking ball to offer craft guile creativity for dowling and mulchay he'll be fine


    Wayne mac was fit and started two half back line conceded seven goals in four games would start and that's a disaster waiting to happen
    Limerick injury players may be needed v tipp but against Clare they weaken team
    I agree quaid huge loss but yes limerick should win and this is not full strength clare team no matter how you dress it up

    To be fair limerick have been portrayed as hit lash jack team as be fair they done that v offaly with a sweeper Laois and wexford and Dublin and last year all championship
    If you play that way yes you will get the stigma
    If you race a horse in the flat despite jumping potential he always be labelled as flat horse until such times he enters a hurdle or a chase
    Perception is usually based on what the eyes can see
    Most realise and advocated limerick have hurlers play different style but they haven't as of yet to be fair


    As for kelly nobody has a tony kelly yes but then nobody has tj Reid either and clare don't have a harnedy either so while their all uniquely totally different players all three are absolutely paramount to the success of the team with the defined role of excellence in sustainable consistent performances they bring game after game
    What marks all threw out is unlike some who performance occasions these perform every single game and more importantly when the need is greatest on the biggest stage in the biggest games
    Lynch could be unreal only if played right if they use him on puck outs he could be equally as poor
    Must roam in a defined zonal aera to be effective were the fleet movement dynamic telepathic feet wonderful hurling brain and spatial awareness combined with real guile poise and outstanding elegance blesses with a temperament for the big games and a want and desire and hunger within once he is allowed flourish in the game


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭lim4ev


    agree with league this yr but not munster final limerick scored 24 pints that day and could have been 2-30 and were still close enough despite our hb line being cleaned def the wings anyway.I agree to a point re w mac and breen but the way you go on about clare you'd swear they have 15 t kelly's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    Jesus lads, we make a good account of ourselves for two league games against Kilkenny (both of which we lost), and some people seem to forget the past year ever happened. We need to be firing on all cylinders Sunday or Limerick will walk all over us. The CE/LK games have always been tight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭Fireball07


    Jesus lads, we make a good account of ourselves for two league games against Kilkenny (both of which we lost), and some people seem to forget the past year ever happened. We need to be firing on all cylinders Sunday or Limerick will walk all over us. The CE/LK games have always been tight.

    Bar 2006 :(:(:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭thinkstoomuch1


    lim4ev wrote: »
    agree with league this yr but not munster final limerick scored 24 pints that day and could have been 2-30 and were still close enough despite our hb line being cleaned def the wings anyway.I agree to a point re w mac and breen but the way you go on about clare you'd swear they have 15 t kelly's.


    And while you right regards limerick cork imo cork would won that handy over pressure playing in last game in pairc
    That style was direct as cork don't play a sweeper but it showed direct style limerick are beatable
    If they play Possession orientated smart concise games and play with hurling brains they have and not just brawn but combined brawn part package this limerick team would be very good
    I have advocated two years limerick need change style and there's hope for Sunday evolution may happen in limerick style of play


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭lim4ev


    And while you right regards limerick cork imo cork would won that handy over pressure playing in last game in pairc
    That style was direct as cork don't play a sweeper but it showed direct style limerick are beatable
    If they play Possession orientated smart concise games and play with hurling brains they have and not just brawn but combined brawn part package this limerick team would be very good
    I have advocated two years limerick need change style and there's hope for Sunday evolution may happen in limerick style of play

    Here's hoping TTM whatever about the change of style i think we have some serious hurlers at the moment i'm aware this is a clare thread so i won't go on but in every line we have very competent hurlers and the further up the field we go the better the stickmen,clare have them but so do we.

    Good night


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,434 ✭✭✭Gael85


    shane mcgrath is a huge loss doubt tubridy or mcinerney will feture both saw very little action through out the league , expect to see davey o'holleran and rory donnelly ( came out of retirement after the league ) to feature at some stage both scored 0-3 points each against dublin in a challenge match last week

    there was very much a heavy training aspect to the clare performance in newcastle west back in late march when the teams last met ,i would be still confident enough even though the selection looks a little defensive , think gary brennan was carrying an injury at different parts of the league too so could see keelan sexton in at some stage too strong enough bench how ever colm won'nt be on the sideline which could be a slight problem

    Do you have a list of Clare team/subs that played against Dublin?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭windy shepard henderson


    taking from yesterdays clare champion mixed bag in terms of starting line ups dublin looked to have a very strong line up though, i think the final score was 4-12 to 0-15 the paper has is it slightly less

    Clare:

    Pierce Deloughrey;
    Conor Brennan, Kevin Hartnett,Stephen Collins;
    DarrenNagle, Gordon Kelly, DeanRyan;
    Gary Brennan (captain),Cathal O’Connor;
    Cian O’Dea,Davy O’Halloran, Keelan Sexton;
    Rory Donnelly, Pat Burke,Eoin Cleary.

    Subs: Jamie Malone for Gary
    Brennan (inj), Ciarán Russell
    for Dean Ryan, Alan O’Neill for
    Rory Donnelly, Chris Dunning
    for Keelan Sexton, Martin
    McMahon for Gordon Kelly,
    Martin O’Leary for Pat Burke
    and Jack O’Dea for Kevin
    Hartnett.
    Scorers: Davy O’Halloran (0-
    3), Cathal O’Connor (0-3, 2f),
    Jamie Malone (0-2), Rory Donnelly,
    Keelan Sexton, Pat Burke
    (f), Cian O’Dea and Dean Ryan
    (0-1 each).
    Wides: 8; frees: 14.
    Referee: Barry Kelly (St

    Dublin:
    Sean Currie;
    PhillyMcMahon, Michael Fitzsimons,Johnny Cooper;
    JamesMcCarthy, Cian O’Sullivan,Jack McCaffrey;
    Brian Fenton,Emmett O’Conghaile;
    Tomás Brady, Ciaran Kilkenny, DiarmuidConnolly;
    Dean Rock,Kevin McManamon, Bernard Brogan.

    Subs: Darren Daly, Eoin
    Culligan, John Small, Paddy
    Andrews, Alan Brogan and
    Michael Darragh McCauley.
    Scorers: Alan Brogan (2-1),
    Bernard Brogan (1-4, 3f), Dean
    Rock (1-3, 2f), Ciarán Kilkenny
    (0-2), James McCarthy, Emmett
    O’Conghaile and Philly
    McMahon
    (0-1 each).
    Wides: 8;
    frees: 12;
    45s: 1
    Joseph’s, Miltown)


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