Cork hurlers must shake off their brittle tag if they are to defeat Clare and reignite their Munster championship hopes
Rebels must shake off their brittle tag if they are to defeat the Banner and get their championship hopes back on trackConor Cleary of Clare and Limerick's Conor Boylan. The score that changed the momentum of the game was basically a fluke but what will worry Clare is how they then fell apart. Photograph: James Crombie/Inphowon in Ennis last Sunday the narrative was that the All-Ireland champions are brilliant at problem-solving and coming up with in-game solutions.
That’s what Huw Lawlor does with Eoin Murphy, it’s what Diarmuid O’Sullivan used to do with Donal Óg Cusack. I was often wrapped up by a full back myself when a ball was dropping. Between the full back and the goalkeeper they needed to manage that situation and when they didn’t the whole energy of the game changed.
This is a huge week for Clare. I would say the defeat last Sunday ranks alongside the two All-Ireland semi-final defeats to Kilkenny in terms of psychological damage. If they don’t process properly this week it could haunt their season. With such a quick turnaround they’ll have to come up with enforceable solutions and move on. Clare will also need to focus on all the reasons why they were nine points in front and in control for three quarters of the match. They can’t afford to forget that.
I’m also conscious that for a lot of my Galway career we would have been labelled along the same lines that I’m talking about Cork now. Kilkenny always thought that we might stick with them for 50 minutes but then we’d fade away. I’m sure other teams had that opinion of us too.
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