Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

our full back line was dragged down to thurles and back again last week , we drastically improved at the back tonight , the intensity was pretty much the same as last week we were just much sharper

its a great rivalry clare v limerick and the sight of the limerick green brings out the best and sometimes the worst out of us , world war 3 is what the great ciaran carey calls it !!!!

i never really looked at it that way , if it was knock out them it would be a different story , we had a few questions at the back to answer from the last day we improved ten fold in that department tonight

wasnt going to comment on the game until i watched it back given such a frantic pace it was played at

to me , tonight is not a shock we played well in open play last week , if we fixed one or two issues at the back we had a super chance tonight , i taught ryan taylor was excellent tonight his grafting and work rate was excellent , what didnt seem so apparent watching the game back was davy fitzgerlds performance ,he was a giant tonight on the 65 he basically directed 80% of our attacks won some amount of dirty ball and scored some huge scores ,his club mate mccarthy was excellent too but really needs to tidy up on the frees

our forwards are savage one of the best forward lines in the country limerick included , to have aaron shannaghar, shane meehan david reidy and ian galvin as options off the bench makes us a serious team this summer , its all about the middle 3rd and half back line we need to get right , kelly was brilliant as was the infamous cathal malone who won some amount of dirty ball , davey mc , conlon and diarmuid ryan were excellent tonight if they maintain that form we could be in for a long summer

adam hogan had an excellent game tonight and the call to replace flanagan for rory hayes looked like the right one , cleary has always got the better of gillane and did a fine job tonight quillagan had a super game , has a longer range with his puck outs then i gave him credit couple of great saves as well

long way to go but the journey has been shortened by a great performance tonight

no defiantly not , i could never trust any one that knows about my dossing at work, especially not a tipperary man 😂

i keep saying it ,last week was a really good game , we made several mistakes we sorted them out over the week play at the same tempo you have a chance, the stop watch stuff was brought to my attention in 2019 by a club mate of mine that dose stats for colm collins in the clare football setup

by calculating the amount of time in play you base the standard of the game , that year we beat waterford in walsh park and the same day ye played cork in the paric , there was 6 minutes oof a difference between our gam and your game in terms of ball in possession , ye devoured us in our next game in ennis as a result

i think its going to be tight for munster , i reckon ye will make munster but ye must beat cork , and it wont be easy especially given they will have the waterford game to back them up .id still take 3rd place for us in fairness happily

malone was fantastic he was under so much pressure wining dirty balll and dominated midfield , he is so important to this team , allowes the likes of taylor kelly and fitz to go and do what they want as a result , o'donnell was excellent in the grafting stakes too

i watched the game back when i came home last night with a fried egg on my face , i taught colm lyons screwed us but watching it back it was totally 50/50 in my opinion , he's interpretation of the frontal charge is what buggs me the most , lets look at it the right way , both teams got away with throwing the ball , both teams got away with blocking players on the run the hurl over the shoulder is a big thing with him also ,

Agreed, as exciting as the game was it was played very loosely, lots of space being given by both sides especially Limerick which is unusual for them there first half performance was also poor by their own high standards set over the last 5 years,

We probably should have been a few points ahead at half time but for some dreadfully poor wides , 3 or 4 we were under no pressure whatsoever

Same level of intensity will be required for the Waterford game or we will be back behind the 8 ball again

if you take kerrys championship form year on year , they usally surpass the 20 point mark in most of there games , i think the dublin game in the semi final is the only one that they didnt cross that line,

only once this year have we surpassed this tally and that was a dead rubber against limerick in the league ,like the u20s a couple of weeks ago we will need goals to stay in the game , we also need to replicate the intensity showing in the dublin game in croke park to have any sort of chance

in the build up to the game 92 is never far away from the conversation, but back then kerry were there for the taking , a really close shave in the 1991 munster final followed a heavy beating by down in the all ireland semi final , in 92 another close shave against limerick in the gaelic grounds was the warning signs that this team was there for the taking

i see very little similarities between the kerry team of 92 and the current all ireland champions , between o'shea and the two cliffords they average 13 points a game , not to mention the likes of tom osullivan and gavin white will contribute from the back ,barry dan osullivan, killian spillane dylan geaney are all excellent forwards on the bench if they are struggling too we need to be kicking a target of 1-17 and upwards to have a chance

my only hope is at times during the league they struggled against teams of a simular nature to us , especially roscommon and armagh at home two teams we have had great battles with over the last few years

its a big big ask but its a free shot at the all ireland champions hopfully we do ourselves justice in our performance

you cant underestimate the presence of donal moloney in my opinion as coach , we are lucky with himself and fahey from killenena to have two really top under age coachs ,like for example michael collins's father is a kilmurry ibrickane man who never hurled in his life , hes father owen was a fantastic half back for them but no hurler

fingers nephew, david and fergals sons along with michaels lad from the bridge theres great pedigree to this team in fairness

in my opinion this game should not go ahead as planned tomorrow , sincere condolences to the family rest in peace ellen

disappointed with then concession of 5 goals again , we learned nothing from the all ireland 1/4 final last year , we are too tame in our defensive approach ,but kerry were on a mission today for obvious reasons and they made sure of it , we couldnt cope with there power running and pace in the first half

clifford kicked 2-6 and put in a storming performance , its incredible to think both himself and his brother lined out today in such circumstance

in terms of turnovers won it was kerry 20 clare 17 , wides kerry 8 clare 10 , kick outs kerry 23/25 clare 25/27 but the most damming stat of all ,scores from play kerry 5-05 clare 0-7 thats just too much i am afraid and the one area we need it drastically improve on if we have any plans of continuing at this level

i take it your talking about dermot coughlin ?

funny enough we played well for most parts of the game , but the defensive structure fell apart ,normally we play an arc across the D and smother whoever enters it , to day we had 2 and 3 players from that arc following their men out to the sideline and creating huge space and over laps in the middle of our defence , it happened against meath in the league and it happened against derry in croke park last year and players have not learned yet , i was criticall of stephan ryan for the 3 rd goal , but after watching it back tonight it was a superb goal , kerry were brilliant today in fairness

feel sorry for colm he deserves a better performance then that but on a positive side of things , the players stuck to the task regardless of the score , the supporters stayed with them its a great change of attitude from years past , munster under 20 semi final tomorrow night , munster minor final tuesday night , waterford the weekend , donegal in the park in 2 weeks time , everything looks to be in tandem at the moment and that can only bring long term success