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

Yeah I would have maybe Dublin ahead of everyone else, it’s Dublin’s All Ireland to lose. Then you have about 4 or 5 teams trying to get to Dublin, Kerry are next best, then Galway, Armagh, Donegal, Mayo and Tyrone all capable of beating one another in any given day.

Joe O’Muircheartaigh had up on twitter about the lack of support for the footballers from the county board, not paying for physio, which is absolute joke and a disgrace. The hurling snobs in the east of the county wouldn’t give that a care in the world, but Keating is originally a west Clare so you would think that he would support and at least back the team.

Fair play to Joe for calling out bollocks like him and others in the county board. Look it we are a long way off winning Sam Maguire, but at least back the players so give as much effort as their hurling counterparts so also have took bad hammers in the past, e.g. Limerick and Tipperary in 2019 and Kilkenny in the semi final in 2022.

Football manager gone?

A friend mentioned it to me, probably a false rumour.

Interesting report on Clare FM about Ryan Taylor coming back to full fitness. He's back in full training. https://www.clare.fm/sport/taylor-nearing-return-fitness-banner-eye-wexford-challenge-ireland-hurling-quarter-final/

All depends how he does in the training games, but he would be a welcome addition.

Let's see if he's named in the match day 26.

Dropping Kelly into the Munster final for his first start of the season didn't exactly yield the result we hoped for.

Definitely need to be careful with Taylor.

Leaving Kelly on for the 70mins was a mistake. He flittered in and out of the game. Scored 3 points ..had some awful misses from frees ( shouldn't be on them at all ever) and from open play. This Clare team have reached their ceiling under this coaching ticket. They are a good side but not as good as Limerick. The coaches are way off Limericks standards and the inability to change tack mid game is a fatal flaw. We have too many low IQ 'in game players ' .. 4 players and I ll name them who pass as a last option upfront..Rodgers, McCarthy, Fitzgerald and Kelly. Do they ever pick up anything from Shane O Donnell? We ll beat Wexford I presume and lose again to Kilkenny..thats best case scenario. I wouldnt be too surprised if Wexford finally turned us over. They are due one and they can see we aren't in the top top echelons..

Too soon to say. The fact that they were defeated in the Munster final by arguably the greatest team in the history of Munster hurling isn’t exactly proof of things having fizzled out. You didn’t dig out this old post before the Munster final.

Win tomorrow and they at the very least have matched 2022 & 2023, they also have silverware this time.

Ryan Taylor not in the squad for tomorrow. Realistically we probably won't see him this season.

Only one change - Reidy back in, Lohan dropping to the bench.

Whatever this Clare teams ceiling was post 2013 we didn't deliver. That team was tiny and we were told heralded a new era in hurling ..'Tiki Taka' Davy called it,like Barcelona. Podge Collins was our Iniesta and Kelly was our Messi or something like that. Turned out abit different ...Turned out a good big fella is infact better than a good small fella after all and here we are 11 years later.

The disappointing thing for me this year is how some guys have regressed a little. Adam Hogan is having a second year stutter and was well beaten in the Munster final. He needs to kick on and concentrate on his job rather than looking to antagonise corner fowards. By all means sledge a guy but don't let it put you off your game. Conlon amd Cleary have gone backwards aswell. Conlons issues look terminal.. Clearys ceiling was always rather low anyway .Kelly has regressed ,possibly because of injury.He ll surely improve. McCarthy is worse than last year.. Obviously Shane O Donnell is still excellent but he's never gonna score 2 -04. They are the same team as last year just playing alot worse. And the manager hasn't seen fit to play Crotty or any young guys from last years 20s. We are in an All Ireland quarter but we are further away from beating Kilkenny and Limerick than 2023. It's depressing

But that's just a cliché 'There's a lot more in this team'.

Based on what? They got knocked out in the semis against Kilkenny two years in a row. They lost in the Munster Final to Limerick 3 years in a row.

Obviously they should get past Wexford, but I'm not sure what suggests they'd beat Kilkenny (assuming Cork beat Dublin), compared to losing to them previously.

You think a team chasing 1 in a row won't be under pressure in a final themselves?

And you seem to be ruling out Cork who would also b chasing 1 in a row.

btw did McCarthy get injured in the warmup forcing a change ?

Or was starting Shanagher all part of Lohan’s plan ?