Hard to call… It will the first co. final since 1993 that neither Mt Sion or Ballygunner have been involved in and its wide open.
A DLS -v- Abbeyside final would be great for the county with two young sides. Lismore who have been close on a few occasion but have lost 12 times to ballygunner in 15 years, and will see this year as a chance, and with Dan baggin 1-5 yesterday and showing some form (the uselss fook) they will fancy themselves.
DLS will be happy to be playing tallow as they are a proper hurling side and it should be a good game. DLS were very poor on sat though and need to improve, tallow are good.
Heart obviosly says DLS, but head says it could be any of them.
Dublin senior foootball semi-finals in parnell Park last night-
Plunketts kicked 1-5 (0-04 from bernard brogan) without reply in last 15 minutes to beat ballymun by 3 points, 1-12 to 1-09…
A converted Mark vaughan free in injury team saved Crokes from defeat against vincents…Crokes went 29 minutes of second half without scoring…final score Vincents 0-08,Crokes 1-05…
what are sars like as a team…i hear they are fairly young will they be interested in a good run in munster or are they just happy to have won cork…it will be tough for them without a match in 4 or 5 weeks…
Super young team Puke, full of energy, running and have good stick men. They are not one bit worried about the break. They are still in the U-21 and by tonight will have played 4 games since Senior Final in that. They have got very tired in the last 2 games(gone to replay with The Glen in U-21 having been way ahead), i know Bertie and a good few of the Sars lads and they feel they are getting tired. The whole U-21 team is on Senior panel, as many as 10 played in last 2 rounds of Cork Senior. Their Minors are in the final as well, a few of these are involved. It could catch up on them.
But they are certainly up for the Munster, they have a good bit of experience as well. Pat Ryan, Ray Ryan, Fraggie Murphy, Michael Cussen, John Murphy, Tadgh Og Murphy all have played for Cork and are older and very experienced.
A mucky day against a tougher Clare outfit may not suit them, but the venue will be huge. So many pitches these days are as good in November as they are in June. Sars are at home i believe. I could see them bringing it to Mallow, or Pairc i Ring to open it up a bit. I didn’t hear that or anything, but it’s a hunch i have.
I think Cork could get at least two County seniors out of this bunch. Haven’t gotten much off a County winning team in a while. Erins Own were poor from that sense and Newtown and Blackrock already had their good fellas established.
yeah, good to see most of them are getting competitive hurling…you can do all the training in the world this time of the year but there is no substitute for competitive hurling…if newmarket were to get out of clare they will be tough to stop…they have 25 lads on the panel who would be of a very high standard…thgey have made the last 5 under 21 A finals in clare…although whichever one of the three that come out of clare will be on the beer til the tuesday afte at the minimum and then having to play sars on the sunday after mightn’t help but you never know…
I take it overall that N-O-F are the favourites overall for the title Puke.
There is good clubs in Clare, and it seems alot of good under-age. The success of the mid-90’s may be coming through a bit now, fair assesment???
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]I take it overall that N-O-F are the favourites overall for the title Puke.
There is good clubs in Clare, and it seems alot of good under-age. The success of the mid-90’s may be coming through a bit now, fair assesment???[/quote]
newmarket will be hot favourites must neutrals will feel it is their’s to lose after they destroyed st josephs last weekend but josephs were very poor…clonlara and crusheen won’t keep it pucked out to them…
the standard is improving the whole time…in the late 90’s we were dominating club hurling in munster and ireland, then the standard dropped off a bit in the last 5 or 6 years…it is no longer dominated by the big four or five (wolfe tones, clarecastle, sixmilebridge and josephs) and any team is capable of beating the next on their day…
good young teams coming through, inagh/kilnamona, clonlara, cratloe, newmarket, clooney quin etc…
the standard is certainly improving and i reckon there will be a lot of changes on the clare panel tnext year with a lot of good young hurlers coming through…
Good, we need a good Clare, and its not like they are crap at the moment, but it’s good they improving.
Is it the changing demographics that has seen these new clubs prosper or is it they are just doing the hard work, or have the other clubs stopped or not got the numbers or whats the story?
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]Good, we need a good Clare, and its not like they are crap at the moment, but it’s good they improving.
Is it the changing demographics that has seen these new clubs prosper or is it they are just doing the hard work, or have the other clubs stopped or not got the numbers or whats the story?[/quote]
a mixture of all those things to be honest…a lot of good work at underage, cratloe would have a very limited pick but they just seem to have savage young lads…wolfe tones underage now seem to be a football first club while the sixmilebridge are coming again underage but inhouse issues seem to be against them…but make no mistake about it clare are coming again and will be as good as any other intercounty team (kilkenny excluded) in th next few years
i hear them new facilities in mallow are supposed to be shit hot…
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]Good, we need a good Clare, and its not like they are crap at the moment, but it’s good they improving.
Is it the changing demographics that has seen these new clubs prosper or is it they are just doing the hard work, or have the other clubs stopped or not got the numbers or whats the story?[/quote]
Newmarket wouldn’t be a new club…they won a scatter of county finals in row back when Brian Lohan’s father Gus was hurling for them…
never said they were a new club…but they have put serious effort in under age…they hold the record for must county titles(21 i think) the last one they won was back 1981…and they were relatively poot in the 90’s when the likes of the bridge, clarecastle, tones and barefield were winning munster club titles and getting to all ireland finals…
Is Clonlara a new club? who would Clonlara folk have hurled with back in the day? Smith O’ Briens or Broadford?..pardon my ignorance i know the general area but not where parishes start and end…
no we would be a fairly old club…our one and only county title was won 90 odd years ago…its 70 odd years since we werr in a senior county title…a good number of killaloe lads would have hurled with clonlara but that would be going back 50 years ago…clonlara parish would have a relatively big enough geographical spread…from doonass to a few miles short of sixmilebridge…then from parteen village to o briens bridge also…smith o briens would have a much bigger qactchment area all the same as they would have the villages of bridgetown and o briens bridge along with all of killaloe…
inagh/kilnamona would be a new club…they only imalgamated at senior level for the first time this year and have some serious young hurlers…
Congratulations to The Puke, our two-time Idiot of the Month award winner, on Clonlara’s triumph in their Clare Senior Hurling Semi-Final replay today. Well done indeed Sir.
Visiting son and family in Carlow for weekend. County final S/F, today involving Eir Og (urbanites) and Palatine (muldoons ).
Athmosphere in the town indicates a lot of bad blood between both parties, to the point where the appointed referee has been replaced and a “firmer hand” has been given the gig.
I might visit and if so, may post a brief synopsis of what may turn out to be a classic of sorts !!!