Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

Shur SuperValu and the rugby lads are doing that.....

it looks that way , lohan will try and defend his selection by saying he is trying out david mc at 6 if john conlon is injured ect.. . how about starting john conelley there , starting cathal malone instead of sean rynne is ridiculous , both senior players mentioned are shoe in starters come championship give the 20s lads a proper run at this level

i dont think he has learned anything from his mistakes on the line , if we won even a league title this year i would pardon the man but i will be roaring for brian o'connell to take over later in the year if nothing changes

i have several complaints on yesterday , but really good win at the same time

it seems nobody has watched a video back from the game against killkenny in terms of tackling

aidan mccarthy as full forward will not work

what was the point in starting cathal malone , david mc , conor cleary who only have a year or two left and then bring on keith smyth ,shane meehan ect for a couple of minutes at the end

any good manager is situational , bar mr fitz who just plays a sweeper to prove to the rest of the country hes not for changing , you are right about brian , but he did ditch the tactic in the tipperary game and when not needed in the munster final , in truth our strengths in that minor team bar gunning were in the forwards

given that brian lohan spent years giving out about Davey fitzs sweeper system , then lined out with the same tactic last summer v kilkenny , shows just how quickly the wind can change in clare ( must be the atlantic)

Clare 0-20 1-16 Waterford

Great win when you consider how many key players we went in to todays game without is a huge positive , the younger lads that started out today , conor lean , patrick crotty , cian galvin sean rynne , all passed the test , leen struggled at the start on sean walsh but grew into the game and finished the game well, , crotty was excellent took his scores well and when he dropped deep his delivery's were excellent , cian galvin got a super score and worked hard all day , and sean rynne improved tenfold form last week which is a huge positive , his second point was top drawer and shows what he has in his amo

the negatives, fouling especially in the second half , on too many occasions we go flying into tackles with the arm or hurl across the chest of an opponent we need to be more calculated in our tackling , liam gordon lets everything as much go as possible in his games at one point he was trigger happy with his whistle on us and probably rightly so,

diving , we took a number of dives in the second half too , shane meehan not long after coming on the field , aidan mccarthy another one not long afterwards afterwards are two that stood out when we were in attacking positions and lost possession or were called for over carrying, referees are wise to this now

wides : granted we made an awful lot of changes in the second half but we went nearly 14 minutes without a score and had 4 or 5 wides in this period of time we were 3 points up at this time had we converted them chances we would have been more comfortable in the end

dropping too deep for the waterford puckout was another , we gifted a few scores with the game in the balance to patrick curren and neil mountgomery by giving them far too much space to shoot with the wind at there backs late on

everything else was a positive , our forward movement , delivery in to the forwards our devending our work rate our rotation of subs conditioning, everything about today was a positive bar what was highlighted

clare scores

Aidan McCarthy 0-8 (6f)

Patrick Crotty 0-3

Sean Rynne 0-2

Ian galvin 0-2

Cian galvin 0-1

Cathal Malone 0-1

David Fitzgerald 0-1

David reidy 0-1

Shane Meehan 0-1

leen had a slow start but was excellent after that , the options coming through in the backs are very promising , yeah pitch was poor and apparently a job was done on it recently

sean rynne was excellent , given hes still under 20 this year shows how advanced he is for his age

big game for the footballers tomorrow , harshly defeated two weeks ago in mullingar they travel to tullamore tomorrow to try and set the record straight from two weeks ago , the result of this game will defy which part of the table we will be concentrating on for the remainder of the spring

a win and with some more favourable ties upcoming would give us a great shot at promotion , a defeat would mean the next two games against wicklow and limerick would be must win games

quietly confident on what will probably be a tricky tie , tg4 have highlights monday night too i believe

yeah stephan was excellent , its amazing how one tactic can throw a game on its head , i taught when we brought on tom mcdonald , brought stephen uot to midfield for the offaly kickouts against a strong enough wind it was the winning and losing of the game , we had 4 huge men in the middle of the park and just turned over their kickouts at will

we probably should not be winning these games , only stephan played in the mayo game in 2021 which was a playoff for division one , before the game i noticed 5 key players that were out injured in , cillian brennan ,cillian rouine , brendan rouine ,kiaran malone and darragh bohannon , on top of god knows how many players have departed , mark fitz is doing a super job so far

o donnell has to start the next day along with cormac murray , i would like to see tom mcdonald and james curran get more game time too ,

i actually feel sorry for them , they are the soundest bunch you could meet to be fair to them , a really good bunch , a debate over 1998 is never far away either 😂 always good craic

offaly wilted because we have a top class S/C coach in owen tarent from kilrush , he was the mayo S/C coach last year , offaly were the better football team by a mile , and i was very impressed with cormac egan , nigel dunne and dylan hyland , they brought on guys like anton sullivan who i think is a serious footballer and rurai mcnamee both of them along with peter cunningham have more experience then the entire clare team put together they are all great footballers but the energy levels didn't last any more than 45 minutes

i feel we have embraced the modern game better than a lot of counties it might not be great to watch but its getting us results , as you saw our kick passing was terrible at times but our running game excellent