Its great to see Soccer thriving in places like Sixmilebridge and Newmarket.
A testament to the Delaney era which grew the game beyond recognition in rural Ireland.
I was waiting for you and your legendary SMB bromance.
That could mean anything
I have nothing against the bridge, themselves and Clon are neighbouring parishes but there isnât much of a rivalry.
The puke used to hate them. Weâve all matured as a nation.
Why was The Puke banned off Premierview back in the day?
Fairly harsh if I remember correctly.
I think theyre cunts to a man
It was in the wake of Tipp getting thrashed by Kilkenny. Your man winter green had a fierce dislike of me. I didnât say or do anything over the top but he threw a fit and removed a few non Tipp posters
Technically I wasnât banned, my account is just temporarily suspended. Should be good to post there again in 2112.
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You are confusing Newmarket with Sixmilebridge
Emotions were running high after that game alright.
Why the hate for the Newmarket Blues?
They were kingpins underage but the worm turned as we grew older. They also had some absolute pricks playing for them. That is before their older supporters are mentioned
No, it is not, you flute.
Soccer should be made illegal in rural Ireland.
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Brian CorriganâŚ
An illiterate Limerick gouger pretending to be a Tippo.
Corrigan looks like a giant rice krispie left out in the rain.
Why?
All those rural Clare parishes are indentikit
thatâs not something youâd do if you had any knowledge of the places. Newmarket is like the wild west
Because of people who admire John Delaney.
Paddy isnât made for soccer.
I think we have a far better chance than the bookies think, but Tipp are deserved favourites given the talent and experience they have.
Last weekâs win is probably the ideal prep, the players will know they utterly dominated Waterford and the backs as a unit are rounding into form and building good continuity. Since the second half of the Dublin game they have really turned a corner. The basic unforced errors which were costing us a lot of cheap scores every game are happening less and less.
The wides were utterly infuriating and kept Waterford in the game but wides are very much in it of the day and could easily be rectified. Tippâs scoring economy is very good and consistent and I doubt we can live with them hitting 50% or so but if we can get that up to 70%+ then we very much have a punchers chance.
I am finding it very hard to find a true form guide for Tipp. There was very little between the sides in 2017 and 2018, while they walked all over us in 2019 we were teams on very different tracks that year, they got a serious bounce from Sheedy returning and had two good wins under their belts against Cork and Waterford in the championship while we had a bit of a pig of a league that year and were hoping that lads would find the form of 2018 which never happened and put too much stock into a win over a bad Waterford side.
Tipp are two years older now and in essence the same personnel, they had a middling enough league and didnât really unearth much. Given the short run in to the championship I think they have a touch of us in 2019 about them with the hope that lads will find form for championship as opposed to looking like a team that is primed. A Clare team full of proven winners with miles on the clock could never seem to find form first day out in the championship back in the early 2000s and was always the better for the summer run through the qualifiers. Granted things have moved on a bit in terms of prep but I wouldnât be surprised if Tipp are not fully to the pitch of it. All the more reason we need to bring the same appetite for work, aggression in the tackle and the belligerent hounding of the man in possession which we saw in that first half v Waterford.
Just because Tipp have a number of key lads the wrong side of 30 doesnât necessarily mean they will be flat, John Conlon after all was MOTM last week at 31 coming off a cruciate injury. But the main difference being is that Conlon played every minute of action in the league just gone for Clare and got better and sharper with each game. He was ready and primed with all the rust knocked off him. The same doesnât hold true for all of Tippâs more experienced heads.
Tony Kelly and Cathal Malone are hurling at levels and consistency far higher than they were in 2018 and 2019 while Aidan McCarthy and Diarmuid Ryan have found their feet and have been very consistent for us all year. Quilligan looks a far more assured keeper compared to his championship debut v Limerick last October and Hayes has developed into a tidy corner back. This is a Clare team very much trending upwards and there are plenty of lads who have improved since we last met. While Tipp have the experience I doubt there would be many you could consider as improved or better hurlers now compared to when we met in 2019. There is a lot of hard running and pace in the middle third for Clare to marry with a good deal physicality in the half backline and Malone which will ask a lot of questions of Tipp.
If Clare have the same energy and workrate without the ball as we had v Waterford and the forwards arenât as wasteful then it is very much on. Maybe Tippâs speed of hurling and scoring economy will see them have too much for us, but I would be surprised going off what we have seen of Tipp over the last 18 months that they can get to the pitch needed to blow us away. If we are right we have a great chance.
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Having a game played going in against a team that got a draw through the first round is a huge a advantage.
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