In sport, you don’t always get what you deserve but given the level that Clare have played at for the last couple of years, they are certainly worthy of silverware.
If you were to take the games at face value, you’d say that Limerick are finished and Tipperary are going nowhere and, who knows, maybe that will prove to be the case come Championship.
Ok, they haven’t got everything right and have made a few wrong decisions along the way, particularly against Kilkenny in those two semi-final defeats but, by and large, you know what you are going to get when go out against them. Brendan Bugler has been added to the management team this year and I have no doubt that his coaching is adding something to the group.
Because, despite the fact that they need silverware at this stage, there’s no doubt that the Limerick game is the more important of the two. All told, Limerick’s departure for a training camp to Portugal on Wednesday probably came at the right time. After the couple of heavy beatings that Kilkenny took from Limerick last year, they might have been forgiven for thinking, ‘Oh no, not again’ after falling 1-2 behind early on.
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