Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

Congrats on your win today.

For Duggan and O'Donnell to hurl as well as they did after being out of the game for so long was something special. It sums up the character of the side. Some really good delivery into the forwards too. First match rust gone now, if ye can keep improving the consistency of ball into the forwards ye never know where it could take ye.

Great win for Clare but the second half was abit disappointing when Quiligan kept pumping ball down on the Tipp half backs. Clare were wide open on a few occasions in both the first and second half. Cork would be alot more clinical in taking goal chances. But we certainly owe them a beating.

We really struggle to implement our game plan on Cork but now that we know their weaknesses we should have no excuses. I thought Mounsey was very good,very positive type of guy who plays with a smile on his face. SOD was excellent and there's more in him. Ian Galvin will never be a 70 min player and whilst he scored his goal very professionally his attempts at going for 50/50balls were pathetic in the second half...one handed and with zero aggression. Dungannon was good and the backs were good. Cleary will get himself sent off this year if he keeps doing the silly stuff especially against a team like Cork who will be hungry and try to exploit any temperament issues

Senior Football to be redrawn

Statement from Kieran Keating below.

It may be a mistake, but they owned up very quickly, which is new.

"I regret to inform that I now realise that I made an error when conducting the final one of our six championship draws last evening, namely the Senior Football Championship. Before drawing the four seeded teams for the three groups, I pulled one of three canisters to determine which group the fourth seeded team would join; i.e. which group would have two seeded teams. I should have checked my notes, as we had already stipulated in our regulations adopted just last week, that the group of 5 (group 1) must have the 2nd seeded team. The Runai did try to alert me to my error, but as we were live streaming | ploughed on with it, not understanding that we already had this set out in the regulations........... thus the process | applied was out of order.

Accordingly we will take down the details of the SFC draw from our website for the time being and reprocess it properly at the May County Board meeting, scheduled for two weeks time (Tuesday May 10th)

I trust this will not inconvenience our Senior Football Clubs too much and apologies again for my mistake."

Looks like Shane Meehan won't start versus Cork according to Clare FM.

Its forecasted to be wet on Sunday, which may not suit Cork's short game. Need a strong performance from the lads this weekend, this is a backs-to-the-wall situation for Cork.

Big game this. They have had our number for years now. A win this weekend and were in a great position to make it into the AI series.

Same starting 15 for Clare. Unfortunately Meehan isn’t on the match day panel. However Aron Shanagher is on the bench, I think we will need him on Sunday. Keith Smyth has also made the 26, some rise for him, he was on the u20 bench a fortnight ago.

Even in the bad old days getting beaten by Limerick was unacceptable. They have the same issues as ourselves being in the shadow of the hurlers. This has the feeling of the end of an era. A few injuries and we are paper thin squad wise. Brennan, Russell, O'Dea, Malone, Doherty, Lillis and maybe Cleary are quality the rest are either over the hill or yet to prove themselves. Collins has stuck with the same backroom team for far too long, that should have been refreshed every second year. The goal keeper situation has been problematic ever since o keefe has been appointed coach for that position. We had an inside forward tonight who got enough chances to win 2 games and missed the lot but yet never got the curly finger. Very disappointing, in fairness they fought like tigers and it was great drama but we were beaten by the Limerick footballers. I think Collins is the best man that has ever been in charge of the Clare football team but his munster championship record is diabolical.