Don’t lump me in with them! Colm Madden is another member of the mafia, was part of the 20s backroom and has been involved in development squads. They’d another chap involved as an analyst with the 20s I think but I’d imagine he’d be a fairly junior member of the mafia
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Derek Fahy as well. They mightn’t need to go outside the parish to fill the back room. John Bugler in the Romer role
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Can’t wait for the club championship now, this time last year nobody was picking O Farrell in this year’s team. Then he has an outstanding club campaign and he’s one of our top 5 players the following year. Keelan Hartigan has been outstanding in the Clare Cup so hopefully he can carry that through the championship and get a run in next years league, he’s got a lot of the attributes needed. Hopefully Smyth can get an injury free run of games and kick on too, and I know he might be short of toe, but Ronan O Connor has all the intagibles needed and deserves a call up imo. If Oisin O Donnell could mature a bit physically he might be a bolter too.
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Those young lads coming through are quality but is it a bit much firing them into central positions in their first season? Is McInerney not about the same age as Cleary? I’d prefer to keep the former. Ye’re not in a bad place with the age range that’s there, and ye have great players coming through. Nice mix like Tipp had last year, better even.
David Mc is two years older than Cleary and will be 35 next year.
Fair enough, I had done a quick Google and it’s said 33 McInerney and 32 cleary.
I wonder does Aidan Mccarthy get a reprieve? Brian McNamara might be an option too given the footballers fell off a bit this year and if a few mainstays leave there is a credible path to game time.
McCarthy will surely be back if Lohan goes. He’s too good not to be there.
Even if Lohan goes, I wonder if a few of the senior players didn’t want McCarthy back. Brian Mac would want to commit this year or else it’ll probably too late for him. He’s 24 next year and he’d have to do a lot of work on his hurling for inter county level. Apparently he is willing to hurl for Clare, it was Lohan that made a balls of recruiting him and annoyed Brian last year.
Could a case be made for Kirwan on half forward line? As an outsider watching on I thought he turned over and won an amount of ball in the league match with Wexford.