Clare League 2012/13

Round 1
Kilrush Rangers V Bridge Utd A
Treaty Celtic V Mountshannon Celtic
Hermitage B V Hermitage A
Connolly Celtic B V Bridge Celtic
Shannon Olympic B V Ennis Town Rock B
West Clare FC V Coole FC
Burren Utd V Inch Crusaders
Turnpike Rovers V Bridge Utd B
Shannon Olympic A V Connolly Celtic A

Round 2
Connolly Celtic B or Bridge Celtic V Moher Celtic
Kildysart Celtic V Hermitage B or Hermitage A
Ruan Utd V St Pats
Lifford A V Newmarket Celtic B
Avenue Utd A V Tulla Utd B
Sporting Ennistymon A V Tulla Utd A
Ennis Town Rock A V Burren Utd or Inch Crusaders
Bunratty Cratloe V Corofin Harps
West Clare FC or Coole FC V Treaty Celtic or Mountshannon Celtic
Turnpike Rovers or Bridge Utd B V Kilkishen Celtic
Kilrush Rangers or Bridge Utd A V Hermitage C
Shannon Olympic B or Ennis Town Rock B V Rineanna Rovers
Kilmaley Fern Celtic V Shannon Olympic A or Connolly Celtic A
Avenue Utd B V Manus Celtic
Newmarket Celtic A V Lifford B
Sporting Ennistymon B V Rhine Rovers

Tie of the round Tage A v B..any reports from yesterdays games?

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Tie of the round Tage A v B..any reports from yesterdays games?

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Hermitage 6 Mountshannon 0. Any report on this. They were going well.

Tage can be very good on their day but it was a big shock considering how well Mountshannon were going before Christmas. 6-0 is a rout!

Got 2 goals from corners early on. Mountshannon tried to play but the pitch was terrible. Tage used it to their advantage n defender for mountshannon ****ed up for 3rd. Early goal 2nd half killed any revival.

Any transfers happen over the month?

Young avenue keeper deasy gone to tage I hear.

John Keogh Shannon Olympic to bridge utd

can anyone on this site reveal how the referee came to the conclusion that 2 players that decide to fight in the middle of a match (Where the game had to be stopped) and issue them both with a yellow card? witnessed this at the bridge utd v doughlas hall game in NOF.. a headbutt was followed by a headlock and punches from both players on the same team. one would think that this surely has to be a red card for both players, such in the incident in newcastle where lee bowyer and kieron dyer. and the officials were from clare aswell. so not only did doughlas hall have 11 players on the field, but one of the players scored the winning goal in extra time. are they any committee members on this that give a reason for this? or maybe help the case of the referee? and try to argue the case on behalf of the league that it is not subsequently below par in terms of rerfeeing.

MJC. Everton afc 4 newmarket Celtic 1.

Bad result that i fancied newmarket any report of this game..

Let it go scooby , that match was last month, Bridge weren't good enough on the day,time to move on.

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MJC. Everton afc 4 newmarket Celtic 1.

Bad result that i fancied newmarket any report of this game..

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Bad day all round. Surface didn't help.

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Bad day all round. Surface didn't help.

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going by scoreline the Everton lads had no problem with surface :confused:

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Bad day all round. Surface didn't help.

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Are they that good of a team??

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going by scoreline the Everton lads had no problem with surface :confused:

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Why are you confused?
How many games have you seen on astro in the Clare league?

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Why are you confused?
How many games have you seen on astro in the Clare league?

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well considering ye play on one of the best pitches in clare every second week and ye are a good team that like to pass it around on the ground it should have suited your players :ball:

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Let it go scooby , that match was last month, Bridge weren't good enough on the day,time to move on.

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I take it you weren't at this game? Bridge were the better team, better teams on the day don't always win..
Scooby is right.. To many times refs get left off without having to answer there own actions, that wasnt the only decisions (bad) he had to make, if a player makes a bad decision entering into somthing that gets him sent off, he will have to answer to the league at some stage, he pays good money to compete every Sunday, refs get payed, they should atleast be answerable for some things.
Rant over :-)

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Let it go scooby , that match was last month, Bridge weren't good enough on the day,time to move on.

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i wonder if you were actualy at the game?? for you see you are very wrong. im not saying that bridge utd were going to go on and win the competition, but in respect to that match, they were defiantly good enough to win, despite the referees poor performance. im also noting that every team can blame a referee for not winning, but in this case, i think martin should have to answer why he did not issue 2 red cards. you don't agree?? look at it from a neutral point of view, and ask yourself was that fair?? is there anyone else that may have an opinion about the incident?

Although I do agree with the majority of your post scoobysnack, I think it may be a blessing in disguise , promotion has to be bridge utds main aim this season and the munster junior is a fantastic distraction to have but getting back up to the premier has to be the priority. Too big of a club to be in the 1st division.. That referee has a history of making high profile fcuk ups but top level refs are at a premium, I'm sure we'd all love to have Pat Gleeson every weekend but we need to be realistic.For every decent ref in Clare there's 2 bad ones

Lads you just have to move on,football is all about results not how well the team played, so while you might have been the better team ? you still weren't good enough to win.As for the problems with the ref i suggest you write to the league or the refs assoc. outlining your complaints.I doubt that you are going to get much sympathy on this forum because every club has had bad calls made against them over the years.Time to concentrate on the 1st div. not look back in anger.

Any report from Tulla V Market game?Makes for an interesting league.

A bit of a surprise but Newmarket's run had to come to an end at some stage. Well done Tulla!
Great result for Avenue up in Lisdoonvarna. Never an easy place to go no matter how good or bad Burren are.
The league should be interesting this year

That referee has me heartbroken over those 6 mins extra time yesterday, was some joke. Sickening way to go out when we know we deserved to win the game. Fair play to the supporters aswell yesterday, was great to have the encouragement from the line.

Quick mention for Liam Murphy, Davy ryan, keith mcinerney, gerry kelly, john earls, owen Mccarthy and co. Liam has been an excellent manager for the side and has brought the standard of clare league team on alot in the first 6 months as manager. Can only see the county side gettibg stronger over the next couple of years

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That referee has me heartbroken over those 6 mins extra time yesterday, was some joke. Sickening way to go out when we know we deserved to win the game. Fair play to the supporters aswell yesterday, was great to have the encouragement from the line.

Quick mention for Liam Murphy, Davy ryan, keith mcinerney, gerry kelly, john earls, owen Mccarthy and co. Liam has been an excellent manager for the side and has brought the standard of clare league team on alot in the first 6 months as manager. Can only see the county side gettibg stronger over the next couple of years

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Well done to the clare team on Sunday it was a spirited performance and some good football played at times , on the extra time played I think the ref was trying to make up for his earlier blunder in not awarding the dubs the penalty when the clare lad clearly had his two hands up to stop the shot . That happened about five mins into the second half of extra time . He clearly knew he was wrong and decided to give the Dubs every chance to get the equaliser which is wrong as well as two wrongs do not make a right

Also clare league soccer has been on the up for a number of years the oscar traynor team has been getting to quarters, semis and even finals over the last ten years . To say that the standard has improved in the last six months is disrespecting a lot of good managers and a lot of good players who have given up a lot of their time to improve both the league and the oscar traynor set up

I would think Mastermind is referring to, as he says "the clare league team",the progress made from the first game against Limerick. In that time there has been a vast amount of progress and this was evident with each game they played. They were outstanding in Cork, footballers willing to look for the ball and pass it from back to front and not be afraid to do it. This is a big difference to the primarily long ball game employed by Clare teams over the past few years, teams that depended on fitness and grit rather than technical ability. The comparison between the side that lost to Wexford a few years ago and last Sundays squad is vast in footballing terms and game plan imo. This squad is better, looked to be more organised and all round better footballers. Confidence in their own ability and an understanding of was expected is evident in this Clare squad and the management had the balls to make the big calls that have needed to be made for awhile.

The progress made from the Limerick game to Sundays performance is great to see and I hope that it can be taken on again. The players, management and the committee deserve alot of credit for the progress and long may it continue. I have being saying for a long time that we have players in Clare that can compete with any players from any league and this I am more convinced of now after seeing the games against Cork and AUL. The league is improving and the players are getting better, there is no reason it shouldn't continue and come the day that no one wants to draw Clare.

Well done to everyone on Sunday it was a sickening defeat but I think it will be a spark to push the Clare league into the frame with the so called big leagues. If someone had arrived in on Sunday who knew nothing about the teams and was asked to point out the Junior internationals, I reckon they would have been pointing at most in the dark blue jersey's. Credit to all involved, I for one have enjoyed watching the football played this year more than any other for a long time. Keep up the good work.

Good luck to AUL, they got out of jail on Sunday but they played the game on it's merits.

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I would think Mastermind is referring to, as he says "the clare league team",the progress made from the first game against Limerick. In that time there has been a vast amount of progress and this was evident with each game they played. They were outstanding in Cork, footballers willing to look for the ball and pass it from back to front and not be afraid to do it. This is a big difference to the primarily long ball game employed by Clare teams over the past few years, teams that depended on fitness and grit rather than technical ability. The comparison between the side that lost to Wexford a few years ago and last Sundays squad is vast in footballing terms and game plan imo. This squad is better, looked to be more organised and all round better footballers. Confidence in their own ability and an understanding of was expected is evident in this Clare squad and the management had the balls to make the big calls that have needed to be made for awhile.

The progress made from the Limerick game to Sundays performance is great to see and I hope that it can be taken on again. The players, management and the committee deserve alot of credit for the progress and long may it continue. I have being saying for a long time that we have players in Clare that can compete with any players from any league and this I am more convinced of now after seeing the games against Cork and AUL. The league is improving and the players are getting better, there is no reason it shouldn't continue and come the day that no one wants to draw Clare.

Well done to everyone on Sunday it was a sickening defeat but I think it will be a spark to push the Clare league into the frame with the so called big leagues. If someone had arrived in on Sunday who knew nothing about the teams and was asked to point out the Junior internationals, I reckon they would have been pointing at most in the dark blue jersey's. Credit to all involved, I for one have enjoyed watching the football played this year more than any other for a long time. Keep up the good work.

Good luck to AUL, they got out of jail on Sunday but they played the game on it's merits.

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So we just dismiss everything that went on the last 10 to 15 years in clare soccer and the oscar traynor set up because you with your expert eye have said so . As I say there is a lot of Clare footballers and managers that have put there heart and soul in to improving the Clare set up for the last 20 years . For you to claim these players and management had no idea what they were doing or had no technical ability well it just makes me laugh and is probably one of the most insulting posts I have ever read on this site .

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So we just dismiss everything that went on the last 10 to 15 years in clare soccer and the oscar traynor set up because you with your expert eye have said so .

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I'll break it down in terms you will understand. You jumped all over Masterminds post when he say that "the Clare league team" had made great progress in the last 6 months. He nor I never suggested that progress hadn't taken place prior to this. Nobody was dismissing anything that went before nor should they as anyone involved in a team will know the work that goes on behind the scenes is immense, and should never be dismissed. But it can be judged and people can give an opinion, be it as a layman or as an expert as you so kindly refer to me as. I am no expert but I have eyes and can see, thank God. I never said the teams gone by didn't possess technical ability, that would be silly with players of the calibre of Daryl Eade, John Healy, Liam Murphy, Dave McCarthy from the team that lost to Wexford. The rest of the team imo is more about grit and fitness, players like Dave Russell who gave his all for Clare, different attributes but in my opinion last Sundays team are a more technically and tactically astute squad. Eoin O'Brien, Eoin Hayes, Colin Smyth, David McCarthy, David Reidy, Stephen Hickey, even my own brother and all the squad are more technical players than the players gone by. I see this as a progression, the football is better and the overall improvement from the Limerick game to last Sunday shows positive progression.

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As I say there is a lot of Clare footballers and managers that have put there heart and soul in to improving the Clare set up for the last 20 years

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Agreed, never dismissed and have outlined my views above.

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For you to claim these players and management had no idea what they were doing or had no technical ability well it just makes me laugh and is probably one of the most insulting posts I have ever read on this site .

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I never said they had no idea or had no technical ability, I have stated clearly that they were more about fitness and grit, granted with some players of technical ability. They deserve all the credit in the world for what they achieved but anyway I am glad I gave you a laugh and apologise if you felt insulted, I had no intention of insulting anyone but if you read Masterminds post carefully you would have understood what he was referring to and your posts wouldn't have needed to be so aggressive in their construction. You are obviously a person that cares about Clare football so you should applaud and acknowledge the progression made since the Limerick game.

Correct First, my initial post was solely aimed at the progress clare have made since the first group game against limerick. Apologies about the confusion there up the blues.

I have been part of the clare team for the past 6 years or so and lots of guys have put serious effort in over that period. Guys like Donal Mcgee, the late Hugh Kelly (RIP) John o Malley, Colm Ryan all had their own ideas with teams and how they set up. We had some great success along the way particularly in 2010 when reaching the final. However, I feel the squad this year was the best assembled and had the best mix of youth and experience. It has been the best organised with regular training sessions and a friendly against top opposition nearly every week against the likes of limerick u19s, limerick u20s, pike rovers, carew park,janesboro, salthill devon and others. The impact the manager and his colleagues have had on the squad was there for all to see, 20 players at nearly all training and games shows the work that was done. Its just a shame really it ended like it did but thats life. Hope this clears it up for anyone who thought I was having a go at past clare managers/players

Agreed, the man has an astute ability to organise, having had the pleasure of working with him (and arguing with him) over the last 2 years I can attest to the fact that nothing is left to chance, even the spelling on the match card. Add Davy to that and nothing is left to chance, I hope they are willing and are granted the opportunity to stay in place next year they will be good for Clare football, everyone will gain from it.

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I'll break it down in terms you will understand. You jumped all over Masterminds post when he say that "the Clare league team" had made great progress in the last 6 months. He nor I never suggested that progress hadn't taken place prior to this. Nobody was dismissing anything that went before nor should they as anyone involved in a team will know the work that goes on behind the scenes is immense, and should never be dismissed. But it can be judged and people can give an opinion, be it as a layman or as an expert as you so kindly refer to me as. I am no expert but I have eyes and can see, thank God. I never said the teams gone by didn't possess technical ability, that would be silly with players of the calibre of Daryl Eade, John Healy, Liam Murphy, Dave McCarthy from the team that lost to Wexford. The rest of the team imo is more about grit and fitness, players like Dave Russell who gave his all for Clare, different attributes but in my opinion last Sundays team are a more technically and tactically astute squad. Eoin O'Brien, Eoin Hayes, Colin Smyth, David McCarthy, David Reidy, Stephen Hickey, even my own brother and all the squad are more technical players than the players gone by. I see this as a progression, the football is better and the overall improvement from the Limerick game to last Sunday shows positive progression.


Agreed, never dismissed and have outlined my views above.



I never said they had no idea or had no technical ability, I have stated clearly that they were more about fitness and grit, granted with some players of technical ability. They deserve all the credit in the world for what they achieved but anyway I am glad I gave you a laugh and apologise if you felt insulted, I had no intention of insulting anyone but if you read Masterminds post carefully you would have understood what he was referring to and your posts wouldn't have needed to be so aggressive in their construction. You are obviously a person that cares about Clare football so you should applaud and acknowledge the progression made since the Limerick game.

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I never got insulted but I reckon a lot of people if they did read your post would have been insulted , I did have a good laugh though as I always do when I read your posts

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I never got insulted but I reckon a lot of people if they did read your post would have been insulted , I did have a good laugh though as I always do when I read your posts

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Ok, you are deeming it an insult on behalf of others. Hopefully "they" will read the posts in their true context and understand my viewpoint, that is all it is a viewpoint.

Now if you would be so kind as to acknowledge the fact that I have not said this as you put it, we can move on.

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Originally "Posted by up the bluesup, For you to claim these players and management had no idea what they were doing or had no technical ability well it just makes me laugh and is probably one of the most insulting posts I have ever read on this site

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I just want to be sure that if anyone is insulted they can attribute the correct statement to the correct poster.

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Ok, you are deeming it an insult on behalf of others. Hopefully "they" will read the posts in their true context and understand my viewpoint, that is all it is a viewpoint.

Now if you would be so kind as to acknowledge the fact that I have not said this as you put it, we can move on.

I just want to be sure that if anyone is insulted they can attribute the correct statement to the correct poster.

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Quick question lads,is there many Clare lads playing in limerick now these days,I remember one time when there was a dozen or so who would walk on any Clare OT team,

Good question faceoff . There is the obvious 4 teams in Shannon. There is only 2 Clare lads I know of playing premier in town thats Okoru for pike and fyffe for corbally

hopefully crusher stays on its great to see commitment and organisation from a manager
-would any of last years oscar panel say they got the same last year ?

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Ok, you are deeming it an insult on behalf of others. Hopefully "they" will read the posts in their true context and understand my viewpoint, that is all it is a viewpoint.

Now if you would be so kind as to acknowledge the fact that I have not said this as you put it, we can move on.

I just want to be sure that if anyone is insulted they can attribute the correct statement to the correct poster.

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ok here goes originally posted by first " This is a big difference to the primarily long ball game employed by Clare teams over the past few years, teams that depended on fitness and grit rather than technical ability" no interest in getting into a big argument with you over junior soccer in clare but to me that statement is clear enough for all to see .

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ok here goes originally posted by first " This is a big difference to the primarily long ball game employed by Clare teams over the past few years, teams that depended on fitness and grit rather than technical ability" no interest in getting into a big argument with you over junior soccer in clare but to me that statement is clear enough for all to see .

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There isn't much point continuing the discussion if you can't see the difference between the statement I made and the accusation from you that I said the previous management had no idea, or the players had no technical ability. What I said and you have quoted is "This is a big difference to the primarily long ball game employed by Clare teams over the past few years, teams that depended on fitness and grit rather than technical ability".

Again here is your claim against me. "For you to claim these players and management had no idea what they were doing or had no technical ability"

Anyway enough.

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There isn't much point continuing the discussion if you can't see the difference between the statement I made and the accusation from you that I said the previous management had no idea, or the players had no technical ability. What I said and you have quoted is "This is a big difference to the primarily long ball game employed by Clare teams over the past few years, teams that depended on fitness and grit rather than technical ability".

Again here is your claim against me. "For you to claim these players and management had no idea what they were doing or had no technical ability"

Anyway enough.

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To me that says whoever was managing the team could have went into the local gym and picked 14 fitness fanatics and asked them to go out and do a job as they did not need any technical ability to play for them " just fitness and grit"

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To me that says whoever was managing the team could have went into the local gym and picked 14 fitness fanatics and asked them to go out and do a job as they did not need any technical ability to play for them " just fitness and grit"

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You are dismissing the whole context of the posts. You are making claims that I said the management had no idea of what they were doing and that players had no technical ability. That one is well off the mark but you wont acknowledge it. I even named players with technical ability from the year they were beaten by Wexford. You are mis-representing the whole context of my opinion while avoiding the inaccuracies of your claims.

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You are dismissing the whole context of the posts. You are making claims that I said the management had no idea of what they were doing and that players had no technical ability. That one is well off the mark but you wont acknowledge it. I even named players with technical ability from the year they were beaten by Wexford. You are mis-representing the whole context of my opinion while avoiding the inaccuracies of your claims.

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Firstly you were the one who said "This is a big difference to the primarily long ball game employed by Clare teams over the past few years, teams that depended on fitness and grit rather than technical ability" , is this not saying players had no technical ability

Secondly if managers are picking these players with no technical ability would this not mean they did not know what they were doing (ie) had no idea

This is a forum and you are entitled to your opinion but equally I am entitled to disagree with it so we will just agree to disagree unless you feel the need to continue it .

I am also interested to know how many Clare oscar traynor matches you have seen between 2000 and 2011 not including the two finals they got to . Now I am not trying to start another argument I am just curious as to what you base your opinion on

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Firstly you were the one who said "This is a big difference to the primarily long ball game employed by Clare teams over the past few years, teams that depended on fitness and grit rather than technical ability" , is this not saying players had no technical ability

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Simply put No. Also note the reference to "the past few years", it will be important for the remainder of this post.

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Secondly if managers are picking these players with no technical ability would this not mean they did not know what they were doing (ie) had no idea

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As the answer to your first question is no it would be obvious that the answer to this one is, yes you have guessed it, No.

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This is a forum and you are entitled to your opinion but equally I am entitled to disagree with it so we will just agree to disagree unless you feel the need to continue it.

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Disagree, yes, but not post responses and attribute your interpretation of my post as being what I said.

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I am also interested to know how many Clare oscar traynor matches you have seen between 2000 and 2011 not including the two finals they got to . Now I am not trying to start another argument I am just curious as to what you base your opinion on

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Now back to the important reference "to the past few years", the answer being enough to form an opinion over the performance of the past few years and give my opinion on those in comparison to this years squad. I am curious as to why you are only interested in the 12 years you mention. This would lead me to think you had an active part in those years and your posts are more in response on a personal level as oppose to discussing the initial subject of the improvement in the last 6 months and the comparative improvement in that period and the period which I expanded to the past few years to include the 2010 squad. And there was me thinking you were only responsible for the poor display last year.

I'll have to do some more detective work :)