Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

Kelly, Duggan,reidy , Fitzgerald Shane o Donnell and Conor Cleary are the remaining players from. That league final everyone else is gone, some with years , even before he took the job

Podge is playing football, jack Browne is to only one he could put in from that team

Well yeah but what I meant was he was one of the survivors from that team in 2016 , shannagher came on in the reply but he has always been more of an option off the bench

There must be nearly 10 players from that team in 2016 unavailable to us now

Definitely not the case in the last two years, it's been stated above the amount of new players brought in since the start of last season

To make a long Argument short up to last year no progress had really been made,

Last year was huge progress, loads of new lads added to the panel and first team,

What let management down was , the introduction of paudi Fitzpatrick who had no game played all year and not this level anyway, the easier solution was to just drop David Fitz back to wing back and move David MC to centre

I also personally feel the inside forward line of reidy and Galvin was terrible, and only when young Rodgers come on things improved like the Limerick game

Problem is we don't have anyone to replace whats there, that's why conlon was moved back

And there is no one better in the county at club level to replace whats there

Maybe move David Fitz back there but he's been tried there before, other than that that's it , that's our half back line you can't blame lohan for that there the best in the county available

Being honest it's not our biggest problem , the more myself and Clareman argued today the more I remembered just how bad our inside lads were not just the Limerick game, but the Wexford and Kilkenny games after ,

This is a serious area we need to improve, and before you say it , it would be crazy to think about putting Shane O'Donnell back in there after last year

As far as I am concerned it's Rodgers, Meehan and McCarthy, with McCarthy roaming, one thing you can guarantee on last year is the two young lads will make the ball stick inside,

Reidy is a half forward and down the pecking order , and Cian Galvin has been in regression since the cork game in thurles

Clare 0-15 Kildare 0-16

as jimmy sloyan would say , simply not good enough!! , the undertone of the second half from the home side seemed to be run down the clock from as early as the 40th minute and ultimately paid for it in the end , kildare out scored us 0-8 to 0-1 in the last 25 minutes with 4 of them scores in the 5 minutes injury time played at the end

the reintroduction of stephan ryan in goals it could only mean one thing that something was going to go wrong , and in injury time instead of going long and clearing his lines the kilrush man got caught and overturned in possession , in return his foul led to a black card where emmitt mcmahon had to go in goals for the last 3 minutes

out the field pearse lillis , cian o dea , emmit mcmahon and conor cleary were all excellent as was ronan lanagin , but decision making let us down badly in the second half , and surprisingly the biggest culprit was podge collins in that department

squeaky bum time now for he footballers , two home games against cork and limerick await , along with trips to croke park and owenbeg , a tough ask after today to get two more wins

clare scorers

Eoin cleary 0-8

emmitt mcmahon 0-3

gavin cooney 0-2

ronan lannigan 0-1

dermot coughlin 0-1

individually we done a lot of good stuff today but its about the end product at the end of the day , and we didnt capitalize on it , on two or 3 occasions in the second half we had frees in scoring positions and podge insisted to take the ball off cleary and go backwards 20 yards with it , or better still go short to a man double marked ,

for a man as experienced as he is i expect an awful lot better then that from him , we gave ourselves no chance as a result , aaron griffin is another over rated player in my opinion , his miss at the end was shocking , had he fisted the ball over the bar it was game over , instead it allowed kildare back into the game and they didnt waste the chance

great win in the camogie today too aginst kilkenny , john carmodey might have been called a lot of things over the years 🤣 , but the kilmaley man deserves so much credit for the massive work he has done with clare camogie , he is easily the colm collins of the code in the county , fantastic win