has squad been made public yet.. ? if clubs are playing midweek games as well it may have an effect on players making training. But would hope anybody who is considered for selection would give it the respect it deservesOriginally Posted by Second
" football is a simple game "
Who coaches the Oscar Traynor team? This is the third Thursday in a row they called off training.
Ideally it would be great to have league games played before first round with limerick but the clubs insist with this league cup farce at beginning of every season to ease back in to it. I personally don't get it.
Some new additions are Joe Collins, Daniel Aherne, Shane Byrnes and Stephen Kelly.
Pakie Darcy has signed for Shannon Town so he ruled out. Infact last night was there first session
Who said training was cancelled tonight lads? There wasnt training scheduled for tonight at all, we are down to train monday night and are due to play a friendly wednsday, we will see how we are fixed then. 6 lads were training with eire og and 6 other lads were in college and a couple with injuries. its not an easy time of the year to get everyone there. Crusher and the lads are working hard to get things in place and hopefully things will kick on from next week.
I'm not havin a go at the players, think there's a great squad there, but if lads are puttin GAA club training first you'd want to question their commitment.. Fair assessment?
I wouldnt go as far as questionning the lads commitment to be fair, ideally we would like em to be training but we know the story here in Clare, these lads have quarter final on sunday and all served the county very well in the past.
Just don't pick players that are not 100% committed. Its not possible to work on things in training when a group of lads are at hurling/football training. As for games being played last friday when Ireland were playing sweden? What a joke. They really have no shame. The FAI should have a rule to stop this happening. Crazy to think that everyone on the league committee thought this to be ok
The Oscar Traynors have probably the toughest group in the Country. Along with an opening fixture no team would fancy. Its unfortunate our League has'nt started. I have not been a fan of the League Cup in the past. However, having played a few games it is very obvious that more than half the teams in the premier have struggled to put a strong squad together thus far. I assume this has a lot to do with the prolonged GAA season. This means the League Cup has played an important roll, this season, in giving teams the necessary time to assemble a strong squad for the opening game of the league. Therefor it goes without saying that the Clare squad doesnt have the 24 strong squad training twice a week that it had last Spring. However, im sure those who are in training will be doing everthing they can to ready themselves for Wednesday week. The 6/7 new young fellas brought into the squad will bring them a new wave of enthusiasm and the lads in charge will do their utmost to get the results that are needed. I hear a lot of GAA players saying, the season has dragged on too long, and they cant wait for it to come to an end, especially those with a slim chance of progressing to the next round. Unfortunately they are pot committed having trained for the last ten months. The very best of luck to Crusher and the Clare team against Limerick. Fair play to the Clare league for getting the lights in the county grounds. And best of look to Eire Og over the weekend.
Can someone tell me in the league cup if 2 teams are level after the 4 games does it go down to goal difference or a play off?
It goes on head to head I'm nearly sure
It goes to goal difference
Curious to know why ennistymon v burren was off , hardly because of the weather as they both have very dry pitches, hope it wasn't the dreaded clash with gaelic as every club has to deal with that.
Is it true 7 or 8 lads will miss oscar traynor game due to gaa commitments
It seems that way second. 5 lads will be missing anyway
There is hardly a gaa match the same night as the oscar traynor game?
All the lads will be there...who ever comes up with these rumours are hilarious
Anyone know if there will be a round of league fixtures the Sunday after the hurling?
No it's a free weekend
First league games being played on 22nd Sept. The Clare league manage to out do themselves every year.
And thats just 4 days before oscar traynor team are out v limk. Have they even got a panel together or played a match together. This time last year they had 4 or 5 friendlies played
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