Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

hes colin dunfords first cousin i believe , his family moved up to the burren a number of years back , has a brother in the minor panel too

i was the same as you , heard alot about him from his performances with tubber but never got a chance to see him until Thursday night still a bit raw at times but looks a huge prospect

Clare 1-16 Limerick 0-16

A bit of a heart stopper at times tonight at the unofficial home of clare gaa 😜, but great to be back in a munster final in football for the first time in 11 years

if the game was a boxing match it went the 12 rounds decided by an early blow by keelan sexton that saw limerick hit the deck in round 1 , the home side recovered to take controll of the game between the 15th and 30th minutes of the first half , with midfielder conor downes kicking two huge scores ,full back brian donovan and goalkeeper donal o sullivan canceled out the early goal , but big scores from cleary mcmahon and jamie malone kept us in the lead by the half way point

Early sexton and cleary points had clare 4 points up by the 43rd minute but from that point on limerick had clare on the ropes , the introduction of the excellent gordon browne led limerick to dominate the next 20 minutes 0-7-0-3 and take the lead twice in the closing stages , before scores by cleary 66th minute , walsh 71st , mcmahon 73d and rouine 74th minutes just about got us over the line

one or two excellent stephan ryan saves helped along the way also

the biggest disappointment of the night was the lack of support for the home side , while we often joke about the gaelic grounds to be a home venue for us , 2/3rds of the 3600 attendance were clare supporters , the performance tonight by the home team warranted much more then that and especially after getting to a munster final laast year , mark fitzgerled has done a supper job also for limerick in a really troubled year for the shannonsiders , the limerick county board really need to get behind him now and this team

from a clare view point , ciaran russell was outstanding for us tonight , he was involved in most of our scores , podge was excellent too covering every blade of grass on the field , but the 3 men in the forwards , emmett mcmahon, eoin cleary and again keelan sexton top class from play again , hopefully they can do themselves justice in the final against kerry

clare scorers

keelan sexton 1-4

eoin cleary 0-4

emmett mcmahon 0-2

pearse lillis 0-1

jamie malone 0-1

cillian rouine 0-1

dermot coughlin 0-1

daniel walsh 0-1

cillian brennan 0-1

match highlights

incredible number of errors today , two very soft goals almost unforgivable the 3rd was almost as bad , 16 wides 14 from play endless amount of short passing turn overs and dragged all over the place at the back , went 17 minutes of the second half with a strong wind at our backs and scored 2 points

to lose by 5 points nearly gives me hope at this stage

no need for the spy job , i was expecting an ambush today instead we just shot ourselves in the foot

looking forward to hear your views on the avondhu division 5 junior d league over on the cork thread ,,,

forde was excellent for ye today , john mcgrath just dragged cleary all over the place all day , morris looked sharp an dangerous from the word go , , johney ryan and brian mccgrath were excellent at the back , noel destroyed us in the middle int he first half too, this was the tipperary performance iwas dreading the last few weeks we didnt help ourselves today but it was more then the deserved outcome

the hardest working team wins the game as they say

i was thinking the same all day , even before throw in ,tipp weather they lost or won always showed well in their games , we did nothing , we hammered a poor wexford second string and a limited westmeath . we were poor against both galway and cork but we all just shrugged our shoulders and said its only the league

we are starting to run out of time now

listen that was a really good game today , high intensity some excellent scores and great atmosphere , we made more then a few errors that we never usually make , correct them and we still have a huge chance in this group

i hold the standard of the game today as a plus , we beat waterford a few years ago in walsh park ,in a flat drab game and got pounced on in our next two outings , i dont see that happening this year even against limerick next week i feel today will stand to us

i fancied tipp before today , they love the park they thrive on that atmosphere rather then feel intimidated and have a great record up here , co inside with some excellent new lads and the return of a few old from injury , i am not surprised with the outcome just annoyed how lose we were today '

i am not going to bash foudy either , we had 16 wides today 14 from play , mccarthy had 5 3 from play i can forgive him but not the likes of diarmuid ryan malone and at times ryan taylor , it seams we have learned nothing from kilkenny last june

david fitz to come back , and no hannon and heagerty next week for the shannonsiders , i am not saying we will win but it gives us a chance if we improve on today , .....keep the faith i say 👍️