@carryharry Remember, these people are dangerousâŚ
Ciarans is the spot
What bud?
Davy out
Why would you want that?
A second tier team like Clare should be happy to have been competitive with one of the big guns for so long. Well done Clare.
:rolleyes:
You will be crying into your pint come August once again.
Ye are going nowhere fast. Limerick m man
Ăll Limerick off the clare thread final warning
Itâs great my daughter is growing up in a world in which Clare have never won a match
And a world in which Limerick know fuck all about winning all IrelandsâŚ
Saw a bit of Clare hurling training session last week, Davy roaring and bawling at players, calling them babies.
Itâs no wonder lads are leaving the panel every week.
[SIZE=6]Clare hurler humiliated by âdouble-standardâ treatment [/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]Man-of-the match in 2013 Under-21 final not allowed into dressing room[/SIZE]
One of the Clare hurlers embroiled in a disciplinary breach which forced him to depart the panel has said that he was left âhumiliatedâ by the treatment he received from manager Davy Fitzgerald.
On Friday it was revealed that following a disciplinary issue involving a small number of the Clare panel both Davy OâHalloran and Nicky OâConnell had left the squad. Itâs now been revealed that the duo refused to fulfil their three weeks of punishment which they say isolated them from and humiliated them in front of their team-mates. They did so when they realised that a senior member of the squad was exempt from similar sanctions despite what they considered a more serious breach. This was not confirmed by the Clare management team.
Davy OâHalloran says that he was not allowed access to the team changing rooms, forced to tog out separately, he was prevented from wearing the panelâs gear to training, he was unable to be involved in matches or travel to them, no dialogue was allowed with other team mates at sessions and he was made to train alone in a corner of the pitch doing intensive physical work.
A senior All-Ireland winner in 2013, OâHalloran claims that he could not accept the draconian measures, for being caught on a night out two days before a league game, when another player had admitted consuming alcohol to the management team and received no such reprisal.
âI had a strained hamstring so I wasnât able to train anyway so thatâs why I was out, I definitely wouldnât have been out if I could have featured against Galway. And I wasnât drinking.â says OâHalloran who says the discipline breach took place prior to Clareâs league opener with Galway last month during a five week injury layoff.
âMyself and Nicky OâConnell were out two nights before the Galway game and the two of us were actually injured at the time and we werenât drinking. We met one of our trainers out and he said he would say it back to the captain about us being out and we just said fair enough.
âDavy wasnât told until after the Cork game because they didnât want to tell him until after the two league games so they waited until we had our weekâs break.
[SIZE=3]Drinking[/SIZE]
âHe then called a meeting on the Tuesday night in the dressing room, he called it out in front of everyone [the punishments].
âWhile all of this was happening another senior player told Nicky that heâd had a meeting with one of the selectors who told him he knew that he was drinking but he wasnât going to say anything about it.
âWe just thought it was double standards, one rule for us and a different rule for someone else just because he was a pivotal part of the team and we werenât at the time basically.â
OâHalloran, who is now likely to join the trio of ex hurlers in the county football panel, claims that upon the pairâs decision to leave they wrote a letter for the captain to read out to the squad stating their rationale. This they claim was ripped up in front of the squad by Fitzgerald.
âA lot of the lads arenât happy, see lads are too scared to stand up to him.
âI just didnât see myself being there knowing that I was getting treated differently to another player â and if we were running around a pitch for three weeks we would have missed the whole league campaign and we wouldnât have had much of a hope of making it into a championship team.â
The Clare management team declined to comment.
Irish times.
Saw him at a session recently roaring at a player "youâre only a baby, I fuckin hate babies, wa wa wa, Fuckin baby "
:oops:
Agent Fitz might be on his final lap now.