Tipp burn through four freetakers as Clare look ahead to a meeting with Derek Lyng’s Cats.
Clare 1-24 Tipperary 2-13 LOOK, NOBODY KNOWS how these things could ever be quantified or measured. And it’s a whole load of second-guessing and surmising. Pontificating, even.
But Kilkenny? With a chance to win some badly-needed silverware that takes Clare and Brian Lohan beyond mere plaudits? Yeah they’ll have that. They’ll have a lot of that, as it happens. Once Tipp got their game going, a Dan McCormack delivery was drilled towards Jake Morris. He killed it with one hand, the other gathering the ball before he rounded Hogan and slotted to the net. It was one of the few moments of summer hurling on a brutal and cold day. And it was as good as it got for Tipp as David Fitzgerald broke down the Clare puckout to himself and proceeded to top-bins a finish past Barry Hogan to deflate Tipp.
But by then Clare had eight points on the board. The Tipp tactic of leaving two attackers up top for Clare gave them Dan McCormack as a sweeper, but left Clare corner-back Adam Hogan free, something he would punish with a point himself as well as initiating moves down that side. On the other hand, Tipp were in the horrors for long stretches. Jason Forde hit three first half wides from the dead ball, Gearoid O’Connor took over and hit a brace wide.
From then on, they folded. They scored just twice more, Morris’ point the only from play as Clare piled on another eight points. Aidan McCarthy, sent on during the first half to take over from the injured Mark Rodgers, finished with eight points, seven from frees.
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