Clare GAA discussion thread

windy shepard henderson · 22-09-2015 04:28PM

Boots234 wrote: »

Is there talk of the intermediate football being moved to the Saturday evening or is that just a rumour?

I don't think the time suits some of the players heard 4 o'clock Saturday mentioned somewhere but not sure, I don't think it will be changed though

Clareman · 22-09-2015 04:57PM

Getting a match changed can be a complete nightmare, both team, the ref, the host pitch and the county board all have to agree, usually if 1 team find out that the other wants to have a match changed they'll refuse.

Boots234 · 23-09-2015 02:06PM

According to ClareFM twitter the intermediate final is now fixed for 2.15 on Saturday in Miltown

windy shepard henderson · 24-09-2015 09:47AM

Yeah the intermediate final is now on Saturday at 2:15 in Miltown

The semi final between Clondegad and Cooraclare is set for Sunday at 3:30 in kilmihil now aswell

tatoo · 25-09-2015 01:50AM

letowski wrote: »

Id agree with that. I wasnt at the game, but i saw from the programme, it was like colm galvin in the corner, nicky full forward, donnie center forward. I know they have played conlon at 6 all year. It just doesnt look right at all.

Look at the balance of the rest of their backs...that's why Conlon is there.

windy shepard henderson · 25-09-2015 06:56PM

tatoo wrote: »

Look at the balance of the rest of their backs...that's why Conlon is there.

you would imagine nicky , cormac or donal o' donovan would have been more sutible options to drop back , any one of those drop back and bring out colm galvin from full forward or even bring on his brother , its actually a criminal offensive to be even talking of these decisions

if a local trainer with no track record in the game made the same calls he would have been locked up in the psych unit in ennis general with the key lost forever,

..!!!

nearly all the teams that clonlara have played this year would have operated in the senior B championship last year, thats why stack has got away with these crazy decisions up to now , they are the best team on paper but if they dont pick there best players in there best positions they wont win the county championship

Clareman · 27-09-2015 01:30PM

Kilmaley up 1-6 to 0-6 after 27mins

phkk · 27-09-2015 01:39PM

Clareman wrote: »

Kilmaley up 1-6 to 0-6 after 27mins

Are there no updates on Twitter with club results Clareman? I was trying to get them for past few minutes on two clubs involved and Clare GAA but to no avail. It's a great service for keeping up to date with scores, I know the Kilkenny one is excellent

Clareman · 27-09-2015 01:55PM

phkk wrote: »

Are there no updates on Twitter with club results Clareman? I was trying to get them for past few minutes on two clubs involved and Clare GAA but to no avail. It's a great service for keeping up to date with scores, I know the Kilkenny one is excellent

This is the same County board who recently tried to ban Twitter from a meeting don't forget

1-6 0-7 at half time

Clareman · 27-09-2015 01:57PM

10 minutes into second half and our looks like game poverty, Clonlara 2-11 to 1-6 up

Clareman · 27-09-2015 02:07PM

2-13 to 1-9 now with 10 minutes to go

Clareman · 27-09-2015 03:13PM

Final score 2-19 to 1-10, Bridge Clonlara final, should be a good one

windy shepard henderson · 27-09-2015 07:15PM

Clareman wrote: »

Final score 2-19 to 1-10, Bridge Clonlara final, should be a good one

yeah best tow teams in the county at the moment in my opinion ,clonlara's to lose but it will all depend which clonlara team turn up

Clareman · 27-09-2015 07:24PM

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

yeah best tow teams in the county at the moment in my opinion ,clonlara's to lose but it will all depend which clonlara team turn up

Bridge haven't had a loss yet this year and they'll have had an extra week to recover, then again today's match was better than 20 training sessions, should be a great match, both teams are primarily attack focused

windy shepard henderson · 27-09-2015 07:34PM

round up of the weekends games , as commented above clonlara as expected got the better of kilmaley at the second time of asking in the senior hurling championship , in the intermediate hurling championship wolfe tones had 5 points to spare over smith o briens in the semi final replay , they now progress to play broadford in the final

in the senior football championship , miltown had an easy win over st breackens on saturday evening and layed down a marker for the final in 3 weeks time , they will play cooraclare who accounted for clondegad today in what was by far the game of the championship , the impressive nature of there victory today will probably see them start as favourites for the final but there will no doubt be very little between them

corofin won the intermiedate football championship yesterday , after a narrow defeat to wolfe tones in last years final they bounced back yesterday and with one of the best coach's in the county james murrihey in charge i expect big things from them in the munster club championship later in the year

SHC

Clonlara 2-19 1-10 Kilmaley

IHC

Wolfe Tones 0-18 - 1-10 Smith O'briens

SFC

Miltown 2-07 0-07 St Breackens

Cooraclare 4-10 - 2-13 Clondegad

Senior B Final

K.I.B 4-22 - 1-02 Kilkee

IFC final

Corofin 4-07 0-11 Kilmihil

Figerty · 27-09-2015 07:40PM

Clareman wrote: »

Bridge haven't had a loss yet this year and they'll have had an extra week to recover, then again today's match was better than 20 training sessions, should be a great match, both teams are primarily attack focused

The match today did Clonlara no harm. Kilmaley ran out of steam and the injuries to four players finally made the difference.

Clonlara are susceptible to the high ball and while the goal should have been disallowed that was scored against them today, they do have a weakness there in the full back line.

How did the intermediate match go. I left shortly after the big row.. One of the yellow gates was nearly taken off..

How the ref only gave two yellow cards I don't know.

windy shepard henderson · 10-10-2015 07:33PM

wolfe tones 4-10 - 0-17 broadford

tones a year after relegation bounce back up at the first attempt in the IHC final in sixmilebridge

coolmeen were promoted to the intermediate football ranks after a narrow 1-11 - 2-07 win over clondegad (

, It didnt get any better for the ballynacally men when two hours later there senior side were beating by ennstymon 3-12 - 1-10 in the o'gorman cup final in doonbeg to end a forgettable 2 weeks for the Gad men

Tomorrow sees the curtain come down on the hurling championship , sixmilebridge enter as favorites and bring with them an impressive unbeaten run in both clare cup and championship to date , clonlara would probably be favorites but for there quirky nature at times in the championship and some baffling team selections from sean stack raise's the question on how unified the clon men are going into tomorrows game , ian galvin will once again probably start on , the bench ,

probably our best prospect form our underage set ups this year and an u21 all star makes no since to me , strikes me as if the wounds form his father's sacking last winter is still in everyone's mind , clonlara no doubt on paper have one of the best sides in munster let alone clare at the moment but i am going to side with tradition in this one and stick the neck out for the bridge there seems to be too much uncertainty with clonlara over the championship

the game wont be televised on tg4 tommorow , however the limerick final between N.A.P v patrickswell will be deferd coverage, the winners of both county finals will play each other in two weeks time in the firs round of the munster club championship

windy shepard henderson · 10-10-2015 08:12PM

Stats : clonlara's scorers so far in the championship interesting to note john conlon has yet to get off the mark

Nicky O’Connell 2-06 (1-0 Pen)
Domhnall O’Donovan 1-04
Oisin O’Brien 0-04
Cormac O’Donovan 1-10 (0-1 Pen)
Neil Ryan 0-01
Micheál O’Loughlin 3-41 (1-23f, 2’65)
Cathal O’Connell 1-10
Darach Honan 1-15
Paraic O’Loughlin 0-02
Pat O’Hare 0-04
Colm Galvin 1-04
Ian Galvin 1-04
Ciaran Downey 0-01

Played 6
Won 4
Drew 2
Lost 0
Scored 11-106
Conceded 6-83
Average Scored 2-17
Average Conceded 1-14

windy shepard henderson · 10-10-2015 08:18PM

Sixmilebridge stats : gilly still the top man at the ripe age of 38 , shane golden has proved to be one of the most dangerous forward in the county while cathal molone's move from ennistymon has proved to be a revelation

Niall Gilligan 0-32 (20f)
Shane Golden 4-06
Cathal Malone 0-14
Conor Deasy 0-05
Seadna Morey 0-04
Alan Mulready 1-06
Alex Morey 0-05
Pa Sheehan 0-01
Brian Corry 0-02
Jamie Shanahan 1-00
Brian Carey 0-01

Played 4
Won 4
Drew 0
Lost 0
Scored 6-77
Conceded 6-54
Average Scored 2-18
Average Conceded 2-12

opinionated3 · 10-10-2015 08:30PM

Anyone else feel that the inclusion of cathal malone on the bridge team kinda sullies the idea of gaa being a parish game? ? Its no different to soccer now really. .... a lot of lads describing the match tomorrow as clonlara v the bridge/ennistymon amalgamation. ...

willietherock · 10-10-2015 08:36PM

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

intresting to note john colon has yet to get off the mark

Some Milk of Magnesia might free him up!

windy shepard henderson · 10-10-2015 08:40PM

opinionated3 wrote: »

Anyone else feel that the inclusion of cathal malone on the bridge team kinda sullies the idea of gaa being a parish game? ? Its no different to soccer now really. .... a lot of lads describing the match tomorrow as clonlara v the bridge/ennistymon amalgamation. ...

its the isolated rule again , cratloe in the football last year included several players from around south and east clare , ballyea are made up mainly of players from ballynacally , lissyceasy , kilmihil and cooraclare

kilmaley and lissyceasy are pretty much all the one without an amalgamation kilmaley also have a number of players from the miltown area while inagh/kilnamona players play football for ennistymon they also take in players from the mid/north clare area as do corofin so its pretty much an endless argument

it cost's too much money for most clubs to cover both codes hence the isolated players issues, however the fact that ennistymon have a hurling club is certainly a more complexed argument , but for as long as i can remember players have always transferred clubs at different times in both codes and not just isolated players

windy shepard henderson · 10-10-2015 08:41PM

willietherock wrote: »

Some Milk of Magnesia might free him up!

must fix that . . . thanks :pac:

Figerty · 10-10-2015 10:50PM

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

its the isolated rule again , cratloe in the football last year included several players from around south and east clare , ballyea are made up mainly of players from ballynacally , lissyceasy , kilmihil and cooraclare

kilmaley and lissyceasy are pretty much all the one without an amalgamation kilmaley also have a number of players from the miltown area while inagh/kilnamona players play football for ennistymon they also take in players from the mid/north clare area as do corofin so its pretty much an endless argument

it cost's too much money for most clubs to cover both codes hence the isolated players issues, however the fact that ennistymon have a hurling club is certainly a more complexed argument , but for as long as i can remember players have always transferred clubs at different times in both codes and not just isolated players

Ballyea Clondegad probably have the highest number for Isolated players. Something like 8 outside players played senior hurling for Ballyea this year. There are more players from Lisseycasey playing with Ballyea than Kilmaley.

The Cathal Malone transfer is galling. He works in Lisdoonvarna.... I suppose he commutes from Sixmilebridge everyday instead of Ennistymon.

It's a bit like the Kennedys from Parteen playing with the Bridge a few years ago. When they said they were going home after the celebrations one Bridge wag was supposed to have asked them were they going to Parteen?

opinionated3 · 10-10-2015 10:54PM

Figerty wrote: »

Ballyea Clondegad probably have the highest number for Isolated players. Something like 8 outside players played senior hurling for Ballyea this year. There are more players from Lisseycasey playing with Ballyea than Kilmaley.

The Cathal Malone transfer is galling. He works in Lisdoonvarna.... I suppose he commutes from Sixmilebridge everyday instead of Ennistymon.

It's a bit like the Kennedys from Parteen playing with the Bridge a few years ago. When they said they were going home after the celebrations one Bridge wag was supposed to have asked them were they going to Parteen?

Except its known to all that his address in the bridge was manufactured so to speak. ....

Clareman · 10-10-2015 11:56PM

opinionated3 wrote: »

Anyone else feel that the inclusion of cathal malone on the bridge team kinda sullies the idea of gaa being a parish game? ? Its no different to soccer now really. .... a lot of lads describing the match tomorrow as clonlara v the bridge/ennistymon amalgamation. ...

I think it's absolutely brilliant that someone from Ennistymon is playing in a county final, what might have happened a few years ago was because of the neighbouring parish rule it might have been almost impossible for his parents to get their kids from Ennistymon to Kilmaley, it might be a whole lot easier for someone working in Shannon/Limerick from Ennistymon to get their children playing for the Bridge than somewhere else.

windy shepard henderson · 11-10-2015 06:37PM

Sixmilebridge 1-22 0-15 Clonlara

Evergreen niall gillagin steels the show with a tally of 0-13 points and some spectacular scores , in general he put in a fantastic performance at half forward and at 39 years of age and marked by john conlon made him deserved man of the match in the end , alex morey got an early goal which set the tone for the rest of the game and had clonlara on the chase , the closest they came was just before half time when colom galvin scored from an impossible angle out by the sideline to trail by two

in the second half the bridge pulled away hitting 3 unanswered points straight after half time , eventually going point fro point or the next 10 minuets of the half before pulling away again and the last ten minuets was very much a case of game over , clonlara never really performed good first half performance by nickey o'connell his brother totts was one of the best players on the pitch and only received general help form miichale o loughlan and in parts colm galvin ,
but the bridge half back line was far too strong for clonlara and at times was men against boys stuff , padi fitzpatrick alex morey niall gilligan were the best for the best the bridge to lift there 12th cannon hamilton on a "summers day" they will now face limerick champions na piarsiagh on home soil later this month

Hidalgo · 11-10-2015 07:58PM

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

its the isolated rule again , cratloe in the football last year included several players from around south and east clare , ballyea are made up mainly of players from ballynacally , lissyceasy , kilmihil and cooraclare

kilmaley and lissyceasy are pretty much all the one without an amalgamation kilmaley also have a number of players from the miltown area while inagh/kilnamona players play football for ennistymon they also take in players from the mid/north clare area as do corofin so its pretty much an endless argument

it cost's too much money for most clubs to cover both codes hence the isolated players issues, however the fact that ennistymon have a hurling club is certainly a more complexed argument , but for as long as i can remember players have always transferred clubs at different times in both codes and not just isolated players

Malone doesn't really qualify as an isolated player of course.
He's from a hurling club and transferred to another.
Nothing like Lissycasey/Kilmaley or Ballyea/Clonegad.

as you say it's complex.
For me it's just wrong

Hidalgo · 11-10-2015 08:00PM

Clareman wrote: »

I think it's absolutely brilliant that someone from Ennistymon is playing in a county final, what might have happened a few years ago was because of the neighbouring parish rule it might have been almost impossible for his parents to get their kids from Ennistymon to Kilmaley, it might be a whole lot easier for someone working in Shannon/Limerick from Ennistymon to get their children playing for the Bridge than somewhere else.

Not sure if this is serious or sarcasm.
Please be the latter not the former.

Clareman · 11-10-2015 08:05PM

I may have had a beverage or 12 when I entered that last night so I'm not sure to be honest.

Colin Lynch was part of the Eire Óg 25 year team today, he'll be up in a few years again as captain of Kilmlaey, probably the ultimate isolated player in Clare, I think he played for Ballyea underage as well.

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