Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

2-13 to 0-13 to Tipp. Very disappointing 3Q from Clare, lost control of midfield when they were by and large on top there in the first half. That said, they had some good performers, and are not a bad team. Some of the subs too should be pushing for starting places. They need to put a lot of work into their touch and handling though, but at the same time they over play the ball too much. They play Waterford next week I think so hopefully Clare can get a result at this level.

I thought it was only if you played senior then you are ruled out of U20, and not the other way around ?

Also considering our the season would soon be over for our U20s

Patrick Crotty is also down to start for the u20s

same old story for clare hurling

I'm afraid that's another disappointment. Losing is as much if a habit as winning. That streak of know how and game management. Its not in Clare at the moment. We probably won't finish top 3in Munster because of it.

I think being competitive tonight isn't such a bad thing considering where the two counties are respectively. We have been horrendous underage the past two years, while Cork won the u17 and u20 All Irelands last year and have the best pool of talent underage in the country. Ultimately tonight it was a better Cork team, and if it wasn't for Meehan's wonder goal, they would have won by 5 or 6 points. But I think we are at least going in the right direction and have a couple of players underage that have potential to make good seniors. But Clare still have a huge amount of work still to do underage to get back winning so games.

Clare 0-9 to 0-2 up against Waterford at half time in the minor. Be a good one to win as the winner will play Kerry in Munster QF.

Clare won there 1-22 to 1-08. Can't remember Clare having such a dominant underage win, maybe over 10 years ago when we last had success. Anyway its Kerry in the QF, so there is the opportunity for this team to challenge for a Munster final appearance. Hard to know how far they will go in the competition but the main thing is that there are a couple of very good prospects on that team.

I would supernova, he was the MOTM today for me, I think he got 1-4. One thing he has is great pace for a forward, and he has that instinct to go for the goal if he gets some space.

The centre forward O’Niell is a fine hurler, really everything goes through him. The other two that have really stood out to me are Hegarty and Stritch, particularly as they are both u16. The full back line have played very well too.

I think Brian O’Connell has done a good job preparing the team. They play with a good attitude. Obviously a big improvement from last year, 40 point loss last year to a 14 point win today. Today was a good day for Clare underage hurling, just to get a win.

yea good to get a win of some kind anyway, by all accounts Waterford were very very poor tonight, [I didn't see the game] they were impressive enough against Tipp and were unlucky not to beat them in the first game, sometimes hard to judge how minors will perform from one game to the next

That's it. I was asking myself watching it how they only lost to Tipp by a point. But as you say these things happen with kids, can be very up and down.

bloody hell, we are goosed already, cursed with this injuries bull*h*t

What injury has Rodgers? Did he pick up that injury in the Fitz? Looks a savage clever forward.

It's all very very quiet from the Clare camp. Which I'm taking to be a good thing....