Clare GAA Discussion part 2 , No Purple Jumpers Allowed !!

the split season allows players some part of the summer off , that is coming from the GPA , but in truth all league football competitions should be home and away , in stead of a 7 game season it should be 14

some job in fairness , took clare from the depths of division 4 to two all ireland 1/4 finals and 7 years inside the top 16 in the country at league level

had to battle at the start wit davy fitz who wanted to give him nothing to work with , he had a small budget and small playing pool to work with and for the most part of his tenure he done it for free, something mr fitzgearld cant be ever accused of

he brought in top coaches from around the country , paudi kissane , eiphie fitzgearld , mark doarn and the excellent mick bohan , he has raised the profile of football in the county and brought the level of underage development work and s/c levels on par with most teams in the country

from the promotion up in antrim to finally get out of division 4 and the two epics against kerry and kildare in the park in 2014

the division 3 league win in croke pk in 2016 and the qualifiers run which led us to the last 8 in the country

narrowly missing out on two super 8 appearances in 2018 and 2019 after narrow defeats to armagh and meath

back in croke park last year and a fine win over roscommon to qualify for the 1/4 finals

and the win over cork in the park this year would be my take out points from his tenure , best of luck colm and thanks for everything

Derry 1-19 Clare 1-13

an inspired performance by shane mcuguigan the difference in pearse park in longford tonight , the slaughtneil man kicking 7 points in total , some excellent scores form goalkeeper Odhran lynch , garreth mckinless and Niall loughlin made the challange even harder before benny herrons goal sealed the tie

the goal coming on the 45th minute of the game ended the tie as a contest , over the next 5 minutes of the game derry tagged on 1-4 on the the score board and with only two between them prior to this spell in the game it put the game out of clare's reach , with no eoin cleary , cian o'dea cillian brennan starting and with keelan sexton going off in jured it was more then an up hill challange

some good scores form jamie malone and darragh bohannon kept the respectability abput the scoreline , brian mcnamara had a fine game in his first start and full senior game he set up 3 scores from play and kept the derry midfield busy , emmit mcmahon put clare into the lead halfway through the first half with a well taken goal , the game was however won and lost in the championship 1/4 and derry progress to the all ireland 1/4 final

highlights from colms last game in charge

your right it was 1-20 the scoreboard above in longford had it 1-19 , sean hurson has the blindest umpires i have ever seen , they waved two perfactly good scores wide today , and both looked central enough

thank god for that ,i was actually thinking about this this evening above , we got a soft mark 13 yards out from goal and scored just after a disputed derry score was ruled out 5 minutes in to added time

i hate handicap betting , i remember a mate of mine putting a 100 euro bet on clare @ evens in a league game a few years back against offaly -13 i think it was , i warned him in advance that players take the foot off the gas when wining well , he didnt listen , we were up by 18 halfway through the second half and emptied the bench , offaly goat alate goal to lose respectively by 10 🙄