KILDARE ENGINEERED A STERLING second-half comeback to kick seven unanswered points and break Clare hearts in the sides’ All-Ireland SFC Qualifier Round 3B clash at Dr. Cusack Park.
It was tight affair for much of the opening period. A free from David Tubridy put three between the teams after half an hour but Kildare responded again to cut the deficit. But, two scores from Shane McGrath ensured the Banner finished the first half with a flourish and led 0-07 to 0-04 at the interval. Their performance was so good that they left the field to a standing ovation.
After the break, Clare kept their composure through the opening exchanges and even though Kildare’s Alan Smith was impressive from placed balls, the home side weren’t slowing down. McGrath was denied a goal by Mark Donnellan but Tubridy sent over the resultant ’45. Moments later, Gary Brennan put four points between the sides before Tubridy added two more scores to make it a six-point game.
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But, incredibly, it proved Clare’s last score as Kildare eventually rolled their sleeves up. Eoghan O’Flaherty and Smith tapped over scores to reduce the lead to three and with ten minutes to play, Paddy Brophy slotted over another score to leave just a solitary point between them.
Clare badly needed to stop the rot but couldn’t manufacture a score. Instead, Eamon Callaghan levelled for Kildare while O’Flaherty grabbed the all-important leading score with five minutes of normal time remaining.
With practically the last kick, Tubridy had a chance to level from a 49m free but he failed to hit the target.
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Jason Ryan’s side march on to the next phase of the qualifiers but Clare will rightly take plenty of heart from what was an impressive championship showing.
Scorers for Kildare: Alan Smith 0-6 (0-1f), Eoghan O’Flaherty 0-3, Eamonn Callaghan 0-2, Padraig O’Neill and Paddy Brophy 0-1 each.
Scorers for Clare: David Tubridy 0-4 (0-3f, 0-1’45), Garry Brennan and Shane McGrath 0-2 each, Martin McMahon, Enda Coughlan, Podge Collins and Rory Donnelly 0-1 each.
Subs: Tomás O’Connor for Fogarty (31 mins), Eoghan O’Flaherty for White (43), Paddy Brophy for Kelly (49), Eoin Doyle for O’Grady (52), Sean Hurley for Moolick (58), Mikey Conway for Conway (70).
CLARE
1. Joe Hayes (Lissycasey)
2. Shane Hickey (Kilmurry Ibrickane)
3. Kevin Harnett (Meelick)
4. Martin McMahon (Kilmurry Ibrickane)
5. Jamie Malone (Corofin)
6. Gordon Kelly (St Joseph’s Miltown)
7. Ciaran Russell (Éire Óg)
8. Gary Brennan (Clondegad) (Capt)
9. Shane McGrath (Thomas Davis)
10. Sean Collins (Cratloe)
11. Enda Coughlan (Kilmurry Ibrickane)
12. Shane Brennan (Clondegad)
Subs: Dean Ryan for S Collins (56 mins), Eoin Cleary for Donnelly (57), Martin O’Leary for Coughlan (60), Shane McNelis for Hickey (64), Podge McMahon for Brennan (66), Laurence Healy for Russell (70).
Kildare in a coma as usual in the first half.very lucky by the sounds of it.clare seems to be improving all the time.a little fitter and they may have beaten kildare today.
That was the worst first half performance by Kildare for many years, I can’t see them progressing past the next game in the Qualifiers. Well done to Clare for putting it up to the Lillies.
Great performance by Clare yesterday. Unfortunately ran out of legs in the last 10 minutes and that cost them the game. Hopefully now the Munster Council will throw the seeded draw out the window because Clare and Tipperary have proved this year that they’re not weaker counties.
Dead right Liam, Tipp & Clare are well up the rankings after this season and to be fair to Limerick they were only just beaten by Sligo. I’m a Gaa man thru and thru but you’d wonder at a Munster Council that sacrifices the fairness of an Open Draw on the altar of finance! They know they’ll get a bigger crowd for a Cork v Kerry final.
Would love to see Tipp make a Quarter Final and really put it up to the Council.
But sure it’s all about the money in the Gaa nowadays I suppose. This seeded draw and the Sky deal two nails in the coffin of the peoples association I’m afraid.
Great effort from clare instead of pushing on when we were six points ahead we sat back and let Kildare come onto us and they kicked some great scores in the final quarter Shane Brennan Rory Donnelly and David Tubridy were poor David Tubridy scored frees when we were ahead but he had chances late on and missed he chocked our backs were brilliant and so was Gary Brennan and Kildare were very cynical especially in the first have Podge Collins was getting pulled and dragged by Emmet Bolton off the ball and there were cynical fouls on Shane Hickey and Martin McMahon early on and Joe McQuillinan only gave yellow he should have giving black I don’t the black cards are gonna last because the refs are afraid to use it
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Super effort lads be very proud of yourselves. Onwards and upwards next year. Hon the banner
Kildare in a coma as usual in the first half.very lucky by the sounds of it.clare seems to be improving all the time.a little fitter and they may have beaten kildare today.
Hats off to Clare. Hopefully the lillies will kick into gear soon.
The GAA really does suffer from this unwritten ‘ranking system’ that robs teams of belief.
Clare should have win this, they switched off completely and didn’t score at all in the last quarter. Sports psychologists needed
At least this year a few underdogs are making breakthroughs. Hopefully Clare can build on this next year.
That was the worst first half performance by Kildare for many years, I can’t see them progressing past the next game in the Qualifiers. Well done to Clare for putting it up to the Lillies.
Assuming that the Dubs beat Meath tomorrow, Kildare will be up against either Donegal or Monaghan.
Absolutely gutted. The game was there for the taking! #NotJustAHurlingCounty
Great performance by Clare yesterday. Unfortunately ran out of legs in the last 10 minutes and that cost them the game. Hopefully now the Munster Council will throw the seeded draw out the window because Clare and Tipperary have proved this year that they’re not weaker counties.
Dead right Liam, Tipp & Clare are well up the rankings after this season and to be fair to Limerick they were only just beaten by Sligo. I’m a Gaa man thru and thru but you’d wonder at a Munster Council that sacrifices the fairness of an Open Draw on the altar of finance! They know they’ll get a bigger crowd for a Cork v Kerry final.
Would love to see Tipp make a Quarter Final and really put it up to the Council.
But sure it’s all about the money in the Gaa nowadays I suppose. This seeded draw and the Sky deal two nails in the coffin of the peoples association I’m afraid.
Great effort from clare instead of pushing on when we were six points ahead we sat back and let Kildare come onto us and they kicked some great scores in the final quarter Shane Brennan Rory Donnelly and David Tubridy were poor David Tubridy scored frees when we were ahead but he had chances late on and missed he chocked our backs were brilliant and so was Gary Brennan and Kildare were very cynical especially in the first have Podge Collins was getting pulled and dragged by Emmet Bolton off the ball and there were cynical fouls on Shane Hickey and Martin McMahon early on and Joe McQuillinan only gave yellow he should have giving black I don’t the black cards are gonna last because the refs are afraid to use it
That kildare team are going places the could make the all ireland woman’s semi final
Pity Clare didn’t win. Kildare amaze me…talked up every year and for what reason?
The Banner smacked down twice in one week, a bitter pill to swallow for sure. Heads up lads (Cork man here by the way)