Match Thread - Clare v Cork All Ireland Hurling Final Replay

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Sixmilebridge.

Amprodude

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Sixmilebridge.

Great colour and turnout there. Fair play.

redzerologhlen

30 thousand people in the fairgreen in Ennis at 9 tonight waiting for the team, it was some night!!

grenache

Very well done to Clare. Simply magnificent. Kudos to Cork too for sticking with them for so long, considering Clare were dominant for most of the game.

One thing I don't understand is how JBM failed to counter Clare's dominance in the full forward line. O'Donnell and McGrath were causing so much havoc in there, yet neither Conor O'Sullivan or Stephen McDonnell were called ashore despite being at sixes and sevens. Brian Murphy should have been put full back with Shane O'Neill switched to the corner, that could have helped shore things up. Every time Clare attacked you sensed a goal could be scored yet the management team failed to react.

keeponhurling

The whole thing sorts to sink in a little bit after seeing so many people out at the Fairgreen to welcome the team.

We are All-Ireland champions and won it in style. What a nice, nice feeling!

kupus

Anybody have links of the pics in Ennis?

angelfire9

http://thescore.thejournal.ie/clare-all-ireland-hurling-champions-homecoming-1106480-Sep2013/

Lots of pics going up on Facebook too

Warper

What a night in Ennis over 20,000 - savage stuff.

I thought the 8,000 turning out for the Mayo homecoming was low enough but a measly 3,000 turned out in Cork last night. The Cork hurling team were brilliant this year and for a turnout like that is scandalous. They deserve more than that.

Amprodude

Warper wrote: »

What a night in Ennis over 20,000 - savage stuff.

I thought the 8,000 turning out for the Mayo homecoming was low enough but a measly 3,000 turned out in Cork last night. The Cork hurling team were brilliant this year and for a turnout like that is scandalous. They deserve more than that.

I hate saying it and its totally unfair but most people are bandwagon supporters and a team being brillant and not winning are two things that dont go together with alot of fans. As they say the winner takes it all. Sport can be cruel for the loosers. The excitement is never there with a loosing teams homecoming but still people should give them their support. I was there yesterday for a while but i for one would die for this team and Cork GAA.

Amprodude

My Kerry friends gave me some doing in work today with Cork losing at weekend. Weeks like this are hard but you got to love the GAA banter with counties and friends.

keeponhurling

I remember going to the "homecoming" in 2002 after we lost the final to Kilkenny, and really it felt a bit weird.
The feeling after losing the final is simply one of disappointment, not much to celebrate.
Maybe some people feel it shows support to the team, but the team didn't really look like they wanted to be there either.

Reaching the final has sort of already been celebrated I guess.

Realt Dearg Sec

keeponhurling wrote: »

I remember going to the "homecoming" in 2002 after we lost the final to Kilkenny, and really it felt a bit weird.
The feeling after losing the final is simply one of disappointment, not much to celebrate.
Maybe some people feel it shows support to the team, but the team didn't really look like they wanted to be there either.

Reaching the final has sort of already been celebrated I guess.

This might seem like an exaggeration as comparisons go, but it's the best I can think of: it's like a funeral. A family prob doesn't want to be at that, and neither do you, but showing support is the right thing to do. The players routinely say they dint like to be at it, but cancelling it would be a much greater disrespect to them. Horrible weather in Cork last night probably put people off but the players deserved better given how far they've cone as a team so quickly. Jbm promising the crowd an AI reminds me of Cody doing the same years ago, and we all know how that panned out. Many kk players pointed to the pain and pride (in their good reception) they felt in a losing homecoming as a factor in motivating tthem in later years.

petronius

I think all hurling and GAA fans in general are still basking in the afterglow of what was a magnificent game on saturday (always a strange day for a championship match imho)
A great game, a great year for hurling, and deserved winners in Clare who were phenomenal, and yet they were only marginally better on the day than Cork who will be back im sure.
Fairplay to Davy Fitz and JBM for the game(s) and manner in which it was played.