Clare GAA Discussion part 2 , No Purple Jumpers Allowed !!

both minors and 20s were good in the second halves of either games , both looked out of shape position wise in both games first half , when adjustments were made we took over in both

i would be happy enough with last night , harry doherty looks like a star in his second year minor , a long way to go of course and looking at the other game between cork and tipperary , in terms of intensity we will have to find another gear against both

tonight we could have lost , or won comfortably by 6 points , soft enough goal conceded in the first half , poor penalty miss in the second , some very poor wides at times too , and some very questionable selection calls at the start of the game

the line got it right midway through the second half and we just about done enough , michael collins loos better nearly at this grade already then last year at minor , but the line really do need to put our best players in there best positions and build the team from there , with the likes of Evan mixtad and james orgin coming off the bench tonight and the likes of senan dunford and diarmuid stritch to come back later on in the championship .there is the makings of a strong panel to go one better n munster this year

so important to get the monkey off the back , since our last league final win in 2016 , we have lost 4 munster finals , 1 league final and two all ireland semi finals , we were starting to come under serious scrutiny in podcasts, print media , the sunday game ect , i know its only an 8 year period and what the media never mentions is the amount of obstacles we had to jump through to get to some of them finals or semi finals , the amount of stuff gong on behind the scenes in the county board before we finally got rid of the purple jumper and his yes men , lohan deserves great credit , the players do but the real winners tonight are the likes of deidra chaplin , deidra murphy , and kieran keeting , the work they have done in the last few years in unreal , we were in the pits only 3 or four years ago now we are one of the top counties in the country ,

the underage work that has gone on has been sensational as proven over the last few days also , we really have a springboard to jump from now heading into the championship , the monkey is off the back and we can now give munster a proper rattle without the outside noise , great night in fairness

a great day for all us west clare supporters who have been traveling up and down the country for years supporting the county team without a hurling club to shout for , delighted for conor , as i am sure you well know one of the soundest lads you could meet too had a fantastic game tonight too to be fair to him

i like how you managed to type that post without a hint of praise for his club or parish 😂

few interviews from tonight , adam hogan outstanding and daragh lohan, conor leen who was just as good over the campaign both look like they couldn't care less at the end , darragh lohan is his own trademark at this stage , a bit like his uncle the future is bright

great media work tonight by kilnamona's nicholas rynne .

clare 3-5 limerick 0-9

the u17 footballers are through to the munster semi final wth a game to spare after another tough battle , tonight in ballyagran , the home side led 0-6 to 0-1 at half time with the aid of the strong wind , conor burke got our only score of the half with 2 minutes remaining

goals from clooney/quinns david cahill and a brace from kilrush's sean fennell edged clare ahead along with 2 fennell frees and abrace of points from conor burke , they play tipperary next week in quilty to confirm who tops the group

clare scorers

sean fennell 2-2 (1pen-2f)

conor burke 0-3

david cahill 1-0