Dont we all?
What is this nonsense? Galway have been better than us for 3 years at this stage and nobody has said anything to the contrary.
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Theyâre only achieving it through PURE EVIL
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Sky sports seeminglyđ¤ˇââď¸
They are showing both games. Simultaneously like.
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They are very parochial in Cork, they wonât deal with you unless you do the accent
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Câmere to me boi ⌠you donât know what youâre talkin about.
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If that podcast upset you Iâd stay away from wollys one with Cheddar.
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A farming podcast sounds right up his street
Cmere, what do ye expect lads?
Galway lads giving out about anyone else being bitter and not accepting the better team won? Go away and shit in a hat. 10 months on and weâre still hearing about the schedule and the ref.
A coordinated attempt by a load of farmers who can just about manage to get cows in a gate to manipulate the media in order to gain advantage in an amateur competition.
Hurling intellectual Cheddar Plunkett.
I donât think Cheddar is biased though. Itâs the hypocrisy of JJ and Parkinson. They said Harte could have had 3 yellow cards and Aylward none for one incident. It was farcical analysis.
Weâre in a good place when we are under their skin like this. Iâd take it any day over the false platitudes.
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I wouldnât describe JJ as one of the most cynical hurlers to have played the game. Far from it. Alongside Ollie Canning as the best defender in the modern game.
Wolly Parkinson is the one that calls Galway out for using cynical tactics. I didnt hear the one you are on about but youd want your head examined to be paying atention anything a Kilkenny lads says. They are typically as thick as shit.
They are right to call out Galwayâs cynical tactics. Just because Kilkenny in the past, or other teams have done similar things doesnât make it right. The bleating from the Galway crowd is embarrassing.
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OPINION: Disgusting disrespect shown to Clare players & management
Published on 12/06/2019 in Home/Opinion/Sport by clareecho1
Stuart Holly, Editor of The Clare Echo says Clareâs hurling followers baying for blood should get a grip.
Weekly readers of The Clare Echo will have noted by now that the editorâs opinion gets a very rare outing. Truth be told, Iâm not a fan â better to let the news speak for itself.
However this week Iâm making an exception for the Clare hurlers and management, who have been thrown under a big, stinking double decker bus. Itâs very easy to kick someone while theyâre down and unfortunately, sections of the public and â maybe less predictably â of the local media have been good at it this week.
Behaving like a vengeful, scorned ex-wife.
For Donal Moloney, Gerry OâConnor and the Clare players collectively, this is undoubtedly their lowest point since October 2016 when they took the reins, full of hope that they might bring Clare to the promised land just as they had done with the U21s three times in a row. They almost did it last year and to a man, we all observed with pride the journey that the Clare senior hurlers brought us on. Iâm sure, Iâm not the only one who heard the expression âthem lads owe us nothingâ thrown about outside Croke Park and Semple Stadium during the heat wave of last year. But talk is cheap and 2019 is a new year.
Following two heavy defeats in two weeks in which Clare were steamrolled, the Banner has been lowered to the ground and stamping on it has become a blood sport. Much like the destiny of a losing Roman gladiator being decided by the baying crowds and the thumbs-down of their emperor, a septic element has crept into a small minority of supporters who have a misguided sense of flippant lordship over the Clare hurling set-up.
The editor of a long-running local newspaper in Clare â Iâm talking about Peter OâConnell of The Clare Champion â had his say in last weekâs edition of that newspaper following a poor showing by the Banner against Tipperary at Cusack Park. Under the headline, âManagers and players let their county downâ, he wrote, âFor Clare to redeem themselves, the players need to take control. If by now they havenât forcibly had it out with each other as a group, they will embarrass themselves and their county again on Sunday.â
Not hard to read between the lines here â he believes these young men are an embarrassment to themselves and our county. A panel of young athletes, and a backroom team, who put in hours and hours of commitment for the cause of representing their family, neighbours, friends, and GAA people across the county. They put themselves and their reputations on the line to serve as summer entertainment for many people they do not know personally, who they happen to share a geographic location with. All of this for nothing but a love of the game and no pay cheque.
Mr OâConnell followed that article up with a tweet on Sunday before the dust had settled on another walloping, this time at the hands of Limerick, suggesting that the management step down with immediate effect. He has since deleted that tweet but left up another one saying he would âideallyâ like them to be replaced by former Clare captain and manager Anthony Daly. A colleague of Peterâs referred to Clareâs display as âfarcicalâ. To giddily call for the immediate resignation of the management team who have given up so much of their lives â unpaid, believe it or not â to coach an amateur sporting team? Get a grip, lads. Notably, balanced analysis came from Anthony Daly himself in his article with The Irish Examiner on Monday.
While Iâm a huge Clare hurling supporter, rugby is my game and another OâConnell, with the first name Paul, is a man of great balance. More than once he has spoken about reacting to public criticism (and equally hype). His view on it is that a team is never as good as theyâre hyped up to be and never as bad as theyâre made out to be when they fall under the public microscope.
To state the obvious here; nobody is hurting more than the Clare hurlers and backroom team. Clare senior hurlingâs communications officer, Mark Dunphy addressed recent online commentary about the Clare players and management as âway over the topâ while Mark OâDonnell, a former member of their backroom team, labelled the personal abuse thrown at amateur sports people who commit 30+ hours per week for Clare hurling as âdisgustingâ, adding that our local media and broadcasters âshould be ashamed of themselvesâ. And they should.
What I personally find most unfair is the lack of integrity shown by those baying for blood. They could take a leaf out of Donal Moloney and Gerry OâConnorâs book, perfectly illustrated by an article by Malachy Clerkin which recounted the âmid-winter frenzyâ that followed Clareâs 2013 All-Ireland win.
âShane OâDonnellâs life was everyoneâs but his ownâŚEveryone and his mother wanted a piece of OâDonnell at the time, to the point where he didnât want to leave the house and couldnât face the thought of having to deal with people. But the one voice that pierced the babel belonged to Donal Moloney. They huddled in the corner of a hotel in Cork away from the noise and talked about life and hurling and everything and nothing.
âThe process of re-engaging with life as he knew it started there and then. âHeâs more than just a hurling manager,â OâDonnell told The Irish Times when he recounted the story. Moloney and Gerry OâConnor have had countless conversations like that with the Clare players over the past decade. Some of them, like Conor McGrath, Conor Ryan, Pat OâConnor, theyâve had under their wing since they were 13. Theyâve watched them grow into men, decide on where their lives would go outside of hurling and find their way in the game all the while.â
It appears, here are two men who care about the fortunes of their players and truly understand the pressures of inter-county hurling. So why now, is it socially acceptable for supporters and commentators to publicly belittle them? Because of two heavy defeats?
Donal Moloney said this week, âGenuine fans will recognise it when players have been through a tough time, theyâll respond by providing them with good support.â
If Clare fall short this weekend, fine, but let the management team fall with the grace and respect they deserve. But until then, donât cut them down. They have a battle on their hands at Cusack Park and I believe they utterly deserve that chance to show what fight is left.
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I hate Galway and Kilkenny equally so I feel I am in a good position to call this as a neutral.
The Podcast was fair enough. On the big calls there was general agreement that Paul Murphy was correctly sent off. There was also broad agreement that Aylward got a really raw deal which he did. JJ and Brian Carroll both felt Hanbury was a little hard done by and that if that incident happened out the field it would only warrant a yellow. JJ had a particular issue with the timekeeping but in fairness the referee didnât allow for the 2 minutes wasted around Tjâs free and he should have done. Galwayâs cynical play in the last few minutes was highlighted but in the context of a discussion about rules and the possible introduction of black cards. The feeling was any team worth itâs salt would do the same thing and the rules needed to be changed to cut out this sort of cynicism.
The Galway lads are being a bit sensitive here. They were the better team on the day and I donât think this was disputed.
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How was Aylward hard done by?
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JJ Delaney is the greatest hurler of all time.
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