How are Clare shaping up this year?

tippdown (Down) - Posts: 38 - 10/01/2017 18:37:47    1944652

hoppingball (Galway) - Posts: 963 - 10/01/2017 22:25:27    1944732

what are Clare like this year?

tippdown (Down) - Posts: 38 - 20/01/2017 16:54:02    1947400

Well theres a couple of quality players returning to the panel - ciaran russell, joe hayes and shane brennan.
Podge collins is obviously focusing on hurling while enda coughlan has retired. Neither were starters though so shouldnt have that bad an effect on the team. Russsell will be close to starting anyway this year and brennan wont be far off either. So overall i think we may be stronger, particularly because we have a lot of very very good young players who will be a year older this year. Players like cian o'dea, keelan sexton, jamie malone, pierce lillis, eoin cleary and darren nagle. In saying that though this year will be much tougher than last year because there is going to be no easy games in division 2 this year and for championship teams will be more wary of us. For this year i think progress will be lesser so than last year, but id be happy with maintaining division 2 status, then we need to beat limerick in the championship to continue moving forward. Munster semi final may be a step too far so hopefully get a favourable draw in the qualifiers - all going well.

hurlingexpert (Clare) - Posts: 1941 - 26/01/2017 11:02:07    1948894

I am going down to see Down play Clare which is a good match for us.

tippdown (Down) - Posts: 38 - 26/01/2017 11:34:51    1948904

maintaining div 2 would be huge achievment but hard to see us get the 6 points or more needed to ensure safety.

limerick then in munster at home, winners play kerry so hopefull y another decent run in qualifiers.

Collins doing a great job with limited resources. We have some very good young players coming through but swuad is still small.

Best of luck to them

Clareman (Clare) - Posts: 1056 - 26/01/2017 13:36:21    1948943

hurlingexpert (Clare) - Posts: 1941 - 26/01/2017 13:47:29    1948948

Who won the game with Laois during the week, who played well ...

Lobo (Laois) - Posts: 259 - 29/01/2017 00:12:36    1949635

How do you think they will do tomorrow

tippdown (Down) - Posts: 38 - 04/02/2017 13:10:24    1951797

Good performance by Clare. Missed a couple of goal chances but did well to get a point especially away from home. We will play youse next week and by our performance and yours you will beat us

tippdown (Down) - Posts: 38 - 05/02/2017 18:52:00    1952254

brianboru (Clare) - Posts: 561 - 08/02/2017 17:43:51    1953723

brianboru (Clare) - Posts: 561 - 08/02/2017 17:54:34    1953726

tippdown (Down) - Posts: 38 - 09/02/2017 10:40:26    1953907

We'll have to keep mark lynch tightly marked though. Hes some man to kick a point!!

hurlingexpert (Clare) - Posts: 1941 - 09/02/2017 16:18:21    1954060

tippdown (Down) - Posts: 38 - 10/02/2017 19:21:40    1954499

hurlingexpert (Clare) - Posts: 1941 - 12/02/2017 13:11:06    1955118

Gael85 (Dublin) - Posts: 1433 - 12/02/2017 15:47:04    1955245

good win for Clare today - Clare 2-11 Down 0-11
the match today showed the two sides of Clare
1st half performance - played brilliant football (maybe too much hand passing though) and unlucky not score 2-3 (or even more) goals.... for the two goals sexton and tubs punished good turnovers.
2nd Half - with the match practically won, Clare returned to slow ponderous play, especially when G.Brennan went off.
lost the 2nd half 4pts - 8pts - some how???? got a few young lads on Nagle, Egan, O'Dea and O'Brien....
For Down, who played way too open especially in 1st half, are now certain to go down in my opinion there subs made an impact though...
Impressed by Russell,John Hayes and of course the small yet mighty Martin McMahon...
but we have to punish teams more and get the ball in faster to Cleary/Sexton who would burn any full-backline.
Division 1 Here we come...(dreaming hopefully )

ROG_15 (Clare) - Posts: 4 - 12/02/2017 17:38:15    1955390

brianboru (Clare) - Posts: 561 - 07/03/2017 15:25:32    1965073

Jesus Waterford football is at a very low ebb for us to hammer them 5-11 to 0-6 in the minor match. Great result for our lads but not good for the future of Waterford football.

LohansRedHelmet (Clare) - Posts: 2492 - 20/04/2017 02:06:46    1980988