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

the referee was terrible last night agreed as was the linsman , but that aside that was an excellent performance either way , i could list half the team as excellent in how they performed , most of this team by the way is last years u17 team so they will have a few cracks at this

ronan kilroy , jack o'neill , even mixtad , john cahil , sean rynne first half along with ronan keane, oran cahil after he came on all excellent , conor whelan was really good too

cork are a fine team they have some impressive hurlers , i think its important not to get too bogged down on a refferee decision and hope we get the job done and get back into the munster final . if cork beat limerick in the next round and we beat waterford , we will be guaranteed a semi final place at least , it will be very interesting to see what happens between cork and tipp , i felt with the extra man cork were very wasteful for the amount of chances they created , if tipperary were to beat them it would throw a huge spanner in the works

Clare 1-08 Tipperary 2-10 MFC u17

Tipperary starting to really put it together again at under age level , made 6 changes to their forwards tonight and more then passed the test , for our own lads aidan weaver, leo switzer, conor burke and kevin hanley were our best performers , but big gulf in class , tipperary much the sharper side , both teams play each other in the daryl darcy cup final next week the winner plays cork the loser plays kerry in the munster semi final ,

this group of under 17s is a hard working bunch but other then conor burke are really lacking fire power , kevin hanley scored 1-2 tonight though and was clares top scorer , only 3 different scorers again tonight which highlights the lack of scorers lime clune kicked two late frees and a point from play after being introduced late in the game

tipperary on the other hand very impressive

clare scorers

killian hanley 1-2

liam clune 0-3 2f

conor burke 0-3

genuinely from what i hear , no one knows what lohan is planning to do on sunday regards kelly, and there is so many conflicting reports its hard to know just exactly how close he is to be starting ,

i would agree with the line up , but i have my doubts leen will start , i would imagine he will go with hayes first just for experience sake ,with leen possibly coming in off the bench for hayes later in the game , , forwards wise i was happy enough with how we played in the second half against kilkenny but we did go a bit quiet in the last ten minutes , the ball and the quality of the ball into the forwards needs to improve , so i would expect to see reidy move out the field , i would like to see mccarthy win more dirty ball in the forwards , like galvin at times the ball needs to be placed into his hand to launch an attack , shanagher will surely get a run at some point too

i told you bring the armchair…..!

the sideline is first come first serve i believe , but they will let you stand at the back by the railing if there is space the view is better there then most other parts of the ground

the seated stand tickets are better as you can rock in 5 minutes before throw in but it will be first in gets to chose

on the game itself , not the end of the world for either team to lose but it would set a huge marker for the rest of the year , plus we have to go to cork the week after which has plenty of pitfalls , sunday is a toss of a coin game like the last 3 or 4 meetings id say again ,