Clare GAA Thread 🐐

[Fitzy]

I don’t think who is in the Clare dressing room is something that’s ever going to have to bother you Tassotti.

[myboyblue]

Thats how you do PR, Davy winning already

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

The Pr chap has really done an excellent job, even before yesterday as much as it pains to say it. Hopefully some of it is for the best. I see that they even released a full list of the panel for 2016 which I can’t ever recall happening in Clare Gaa before

[Joe_Player]

Put your money on Clare now.

[Smark]

What has happened to Cratloe this year? They looked like a super club outfit when winning it out last year and i remember seeing them against Kilmallock in Munster and Kilmallock were charmed enough to beat them. Cratloe kept going for the juggular when if they had been putting over points they’d have won. They were a very slick looking side.

[Raylan]

Podge’s injury for a start, then trying to keep going in both codes with a fairly shallow panel, esp in the hurling (they have a host of isolated players with them in the football). Even last year they were using the same 17 or 18 players all through Munster. They weren’t far off the Bridge this year despite Conor McGrath getting sent off five minutes into that game.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Big_Dan_Campbell

Clare was restructured last year, 5 senior teams went down, one came up to reduce the number of senior teams from 20 to 16. They are relatively young side, most players either under 22 or over 28 as they had a few barron years at underage a decade or so ago and while they have a strong spine they are probably more suited to summer than winter hurling. An average enough Smith O’Briens brought them to a replay in the semi final and supposedly should have beaten them the first day but they beat Doora/Barefield’s first team by 20 odd points in the first round of the championship

Went to watch this at the weekend. Hard to read much into it as Kilmoyley had no interest the cunts, wish they’d told me.
Tones seemed a well organised & functional, if unspectacular, team. In fairness they were never under pressure so could have plenty more in the tank.

[anon25556527]

With cut backs in clare and now Cusack being involved the clare lads will be sharing the ice baths next year.

[myboyblue]

@anon25556527

With cut backs in clare and now Cusack being involved the clare lads will be sharing the ice baths next year.

Read above mate, Davy has said they’ve cut down the panel on previous years. I’d suspect Clare are just fine financially.

And sharing ice baths is common enough.

[myboyblue]

Kieran Shannon has a good piece on the move today

Inspired Donal Óg Cusack deal shows Davy Fitzgerald putting county first

[caoimhaoin]

Did ardfert have some crazy record of not having lost a game hurling or football for 8 minths or something?

Awful pity Cork didn’t have the balls for Myler (as in make him manager)

[Julio_Geordio]

@caoimhaoin

Did ardfert have some crazy record of not having lost a game hurling or football for 8 minths or something?

Awful pity Cork didn’t have the balls for Myler (as in make him manager)

They won the Intermediate Club Football All Ireland & Senior Hurling Kerry last year and got to the final again this year so they could easily have.

There’s nothing fancy about Meyler training wise, but he seems to be a good man manager, which is most of the role at inter-county. He’d be far too outspoken for Cork I’d imagine.

[caoimhaoin]

Oh ya, thats the issue. Frank would have heart failure. However he is exactly what the headphone bopping cunts need.

Good training always is simple.

[Julio_Geordio]

@caoimhaoin

Good training always is simple.

Very true, nothing worse than a fella explaining ridiculous drills for the night.

[Bandage]

And all this after @Big_Dan_Campbell gave you the full lowdown on his own county’s representatives so you could run back and feed the information to Kilmoyley. Fuck you both, you treacherous bastards.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

The one thing you would hope that Og Cusack being involved as a selector is that he will bring a fresh perspective and some players who have been on the fringes may well get a chance to impress while others who have nailed on starers when fit regardless of form and are favourites of Davy’s may well not be as much as automatic selections but it is hard to know.

The likes of Bugler, Colin Ryan, Honan and a few others pretty much start when fit regardless of form and none of them are that integral to how we play. All are worth their places when playing well but they shouldn’t be automatic selections. Pat Donnellan despite being dropped for the second Wexford game in 2014 and the Cork match last year is another who the manager is very loyal to and he should have been dropped long before both games. Players like Shane Golden and David Reidy are two others who Davy gave loads of chances to with varying results while the likes of Cathal O’Connell were given the odd opportunity and the likes of Cathal Malone & Daire Keane were given none despite the fact we are crying out for ball winners in the half forward line and there is little to suggest that Golden and Reidy are far superior players to the other three.

[iron_mike]

Dont think theres going to be any inbetween with this one. It will either be a spectacular success or Davy will be heading back to Lisdoonvarna next year

[Joe_Player]

oh yea

[iron_mike]

O yea what Joe? Do you reckon Donal og is yere new messiah

[Joe_Player]

We are not going to be far off.