Clare GAA Discussion - 2024 All Ireland Hurling Champions

for some reason its nearly on par with 1995 , i dont know why , maybe its the loss's of 5 our of the last 7 munster finals or 3 out of the last 6 all ireland semi finals will do that i suppose

o'donnell heagerty and fitzgibbon for me were the 3 best players in the country this year , i would argue that darragh fitzgibbon had a better final then o donnell but the outcome of last sunday will probably decide it

mccarthy reminds me of cillian o connor of mayo , remember them jimmy sloyan videos of him calling out O'Connor's performances at times , i was the same all year towards mccarthy up to the munster final , the difference in my opinion is mccarthy was dropped for the 1/4 final against wexford which was a huge call , it worked and aidan was flawless in the semi final and excellent in the final

it might not have won mayo an all ireland but worked for us , mccarthy has became our best free taker since colin ryan this year , he kept the show on the road throughout the league and munster championship when we were missing so many key players

if your not confidant about your own what's the point , we were confidant because we had won the last 3 outings albeit by a puck of a ball each time

as for tradition , of course we respect corks tradition , but we have to play it down leading into an all ireland final , we dont want things like this feeding into the players domin

and finally , i think johnny murphy had a good game on sunday , because that's the way i want to see the game of hurling officiated win lose or draw , the game reminded me of the classic tipp v cork games in the early 90s last week

but he from a consistency point of view the robbie o flynn effort should have been called back , adam hogan got called for it in the first half when horgan skinned him , and aaron shanagher needlessly done the exact same thing in normal time , i know we are always looking for excuses as donal og would say right!! 😂 , but i dont remember us getting a break like this in my time in such a big game

in fairness , he called himself out so fair play , a hard thing to do when you lose

cork have been excellent over the last 4 years under age , its easy be confidant about the future , but as you pointed out it counts for nothing yet

cork were miles ahead of us in every way from player development to s/c to underage sucess for the history of the assosation up until the mid to late 90s ,

even in years past trying to keep good hurlers or footballers from emigrating was a job here . but every county has caught up with them now , in my opinion cork have everything needed to win an all ireland but they wont do what limerick have just done they dont have that level of talent coming through , the hurling landscape has hugely changed in the last 20 years so wining on all ireland every decade is now a hard thing to do for any county

anything you read under a headline from the likes of the benchwarmers , or the clare times or Gaelic craic on facebook or twitter is to be taken with large caution of bulshit attached normally

the irish news are the only publication to actually report on this , and all they have said is that he met with the county board up there , what has people in antrim slightly worried is that here is a man that just left the waterford job sighting family reasons , a young son and the strains of the long drive down to waterford , well antrim is nearly a 5 hour drive 1 way which is almost double the distance he has been traveling

i cant see it myself personally either