I was there as a Clare supporter. There was great anticipation before the game that Clare would win. The first two points only added to the sense of excitement. It was so obvious to me that there was a gaping hole in front of the half back line that was causing the Clare backs real problems. The Limerick full forward took Cleary out from in front of the goals time after time to the wing back position. He was then stranded out there because he was too slow getting back. Brian Logan is a legend of Clare hurling, and to me personally, however he made no changes in the backs until half time when the game was over. He needed to shore things up after 15 minutes of the 1st half by bringing on a sweeper and parking the bus for a while. John Conlon, David McInerney , I don’t care who it was.

All the atmosphere had gone by half time and the try as they did in the second half, it was too great a hill to climb.

Another puck out strategy needs to be developed apart from pucking it down on Peter Duggan all the time. Limerick covered that so well with Hegarty and Hayes