Examiner?
Hear hear
It is pretty much our strongest available team, Nash would be my one change but he will be a good impact sub. And we do have players on the bench who can make an impact- Nash, Morrissey & Colin Ryan can all offer something; you’d have no fear of Gavin, Condon & English coming on in the backs and the two Doon boys will offer work rate & plenty of hurling. That’s a good bench.
I was a little surprised hearing Dan Morrissey was going to start, but if he’s going well in training, fair play, that’s how you lay down a marker. Delighted for him, he’s a sound skin and was hung out to dry against Tipp last year.
English not starting also came as a surprise, I thought he was nailed-on either at corner-back or full-back but again, it shows that Kiely must have a lot of faith in the three he’s named, and they must be going well.
Aye. O’Grady is of the opinion that if we can accidentally bundle in an auld goal or two, we can make a game of it.
Why is the Clare sweeper running away from the full-back line instead of towards it?
He’s Italian
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I think Peter Casey could be our ace in the hole, although he won’t be helped if we only play 2 men inside (unless the ball into him is top class). I’m not expecting him to win it on his own but he is very talented, in form and a bit of an unknown quantity at this level (although I’m sure Moloney & O’Connor know everything about him). It’s the same thing with Kyle really, if he’s in a 2-man forward line, the ball in will have to be really good. Pat O’Connor hasn’t played in a while, I’d love to see Casey running at him.
We’ll go short on puck-outs where possible, but Clare would be mad to allow that since we’ve struggled so much when going long. I imagine Jim-Bob will move up on our puckouts, he did earlier in the season anyway, and is useful in scrapping for ball. And I’d expect him to sit back on their puckouts too.
We are going to ate the bastards… Man mark Kelly, Crowd the middle and timber the fuck out of em - their master plan is to draw out our HB line and let SOD operate between the lines and run at our FB line - Take the little gobblins head clean off in the opening exchanges and shove a hurley up Shanagher’s hole as he looks on in horror at a headless SOD squirm around the field like a decapitated cockroach. We will smear both Jim Bob and Browne in alcohol and Galvin won’t know which one to chase…
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Ace in the hole?
Podge? He’s like something from a famine scetch in a 19th c. British periodical… A big vacant look on him…we will have a pot of spuds boiling on the side line - that will take care of him.
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Did you see our subs you blind
Bugler and his bosca ceoil…
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Had some good banter there with a Clare man walking through the city with a big Clare umbrella… it wasn’t even raining at the time.
Fuck Clare, half of them are drugged up dipsos and the rest are jumped up fuckin show ponies. Got a flukey all Ireland in 2013 and you had the likes of @Kid_Chocolate and @twiceasnice97 telling us Clare were going to dominate for the next 10 years such was the quality they had coming through. Players lost the run of themselves but twas Davy Fitz who was scapegoated.
Shane O’Donnell being hailed as the next DJ Carey for getting three soft goals against one of the worst full back lines ever to play in an All Ireland final. A one trick, flash in the pan who’s hardly burnt a ball since.
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They look like extras from a Lord of the Rings movie… Little gobblins the lot of em.
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Limerick lads badly rattled.