2016 Allianz National Hurling League

A lovely hurler.

Only seeing that now, fucking hell:o

9/1 for an All star. If Clare are to make an impact this summer he will carry the charge

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17 wides the killer. Forwards hitting wides under pressure can be forgiven, an off day for free takers can be forgiven.
But, half backs & midfielders taking Hail Mary efforts would drive a man demented. Bergin when introduced hit 2 poor wides as did Paudie before he got one. It was obvious our FF could do well with decent supply.
Lack of real goal chances is worrying also, we don’t win too many games w/o scoring a couple.

All that said, it’s only the League & management can get ruthless now as there are better options in different positions than other years. Get P Stapleton & Cahill fit and hopefully we can shore up the FB line.

It looked for all the world that Shanaghan was going for that corner, he just went too early. TBF he was on a hiding to nothing anyway with a fella getting to the edge of the small square and batting the ball like that.

Agree, he wasn’t going to save it standing in the middle so he took a chance and looks stupid as a result. Probably should have just ran out and tried to put pressure on the player but wouldn’t be too critical of him as not many goalies would do that

A Schmeichel star jump or Toni Schumacher type challenge would have been preferable, a die with your boots on type effort if you will.

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A former teammate always said to me, the league is not the place to die.

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Thought the Tipp keeper had a solid game, did well to stop a Tots shot going over the bar and has a serious strike of a ball. His puck outs were decent

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Ah but the wides ye had

That’s 3 out of 17 wides. Paudie Maher got more from play than 5 of the 6 starting forwards combined!

Also thinking back about it. Bringing on Stephen O’Brien for his debut in injury time replacing Bubbles was a terrible call by Ryan today as well. He got on one ball in a bit of space and fumbled it and allowed Clare to clear. O’Dwyer would surely have been more composed and would also have slotted that late free you feel.

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True.

But you would rather see these lads stopping scores than driving harmless wides. Shooting in general & high wide counts in all the league games were a killer.

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Our we in kk for the semi

Normally you would think so but Bubbles’ touch or striking weren’t great all day and he hit a lot of frees wide, albeit from long distances

Will we have a double header in Thurles on Apr 17th for the semi finals?

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Anyone here go to Cork/Galway? Who played well for Cork?

Waterford v Limerick 2pm Thurles on the 17th.

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Clare v KK 4 pm.

See you in the greyhound track mate

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