Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

thats exactly what the league is about , if you end up showing your full hand in febuary then you are in trouble ,

this game was pretty much won and lost in the 15 minute spell in the first half where wexford outscored us 1-4 to 0-0 in this period we hit somthing like 7 wides and rory o'connor scored 1-3 from play , i taught the biggest man at fault was dirmuid ryan , his shooting was miles off and his balls into the forward line were poor had we even scored 2 or 3 points in this passage of the game it would have stoped the rott and probably sent us on our way , we were only 2 points down at half time dispite all this

huge positives from the likes of meehan rodgers and crotty , paddy donnellan was good also , huge qustion marks hang over the likes of browne , jason mccarthy david fitz , hopfully it was only an off day for ryan hes probably been one of our better opperators this season

really lookig forward to see how this team shapes up with kelly duggan aidan mccarthy o'donnell ect .. teaming up with rodgers meehan and crotty

yep i felt watching a few of UL's games that they were over reliant on Clifford he was well looked after last night , from a clare point of view , i taught oisin looney had a really good campaign he really should be closer to the panel then he is , emmet mcmahon also very good through out the competition and should be starting more regular , the bigger games and playing with experienced heads like poweter and clifford will stand to the likes of ciaran downes and daniel walsh going forward

congrats to mark mcinerney on his winners medal , he didnt feature last night but in the company of fionn mcdonagh and especially cathal hennigan its a tough team to make

speaking of tough teams to make , hennigans Roscommon is up next for clare on sunday , could be a hard watch for us ,Roscommon are flying two big wins over Meath and cork has them flying , throw in the fact the st faithleachs ( conor and diarmuid murtaigh ) and the pearses lads ( niall , conor and ronan daly , hubert darcy and shane carty ) after their club championship escapades almost an embarrassment of riches to be bring in to a team in fine form

Roscommon are a division 1 team all day in my opinion cant see us getting anything in the hyde but i still expect a good effort from our lads , scoring difference will be crucial later in the league

the rodgers injury has thrown things under the bus heres how i was hoping it would work out , at the back i would like to see jack replace flanagan at 4 , bring in david mc at 7 ,conlon back to 6 , kelly and reidy midfield duggan malone alongside ian galvin , rodgers o'donnell and shanagher full forward line , its probably not going to happen but it would make for a fairly competitive side

Good result for the footballers away to roscommon , against a storm in the first half probably played their best football in the first 20 minutes leading 0-4 to 0-2 , roscommon kicked on again with some big scores form donie smith and conor cox , and with the game at 0-6 to 0-5 at half time ad a strong wind at our backs we really should have kicked on

roscommon started the brighter and went 3 up in the first ten minutes if the 2nd half , it stayed that way until about 5 minutes to go when keelan kicked a 45 , and two long range scores from tubridy and cleary tied it up

like the cork game though this is a game we could have won but for some poor shooting, had a point blank goal chance saved late on as well but unbeaten still in the league after 3 games is still a good place to be

clare scorers

eoin cleary  0-2

podge  0-2

keelan sexton  0-1

aaron griffin 0-1

david tubridy 0-1 

jamie malone 0-1 

alan sweeney 0-1

yeah id say we will do enough to be safe enough from relegation before the trip to newry , similar to the cork game in terms of coming back late on , we had chances before that but didnt take them , roscommon a much better team then cork but will be kicking themselves they didnt put up a bigger score in the first half