Clare 3-21 Tipperary 2-16
Eight days in and the hurling championship is already divesting itself of contenders at a merciless rate. True, nobody really saw Tipperary in those terms in the first place but any notion that they might stitch together an outsider’s run through the summer was decimated here. They were ransacked.
The worst of it for Colm Bonnar’s side might be that Clare didn’t have to be that good to make a show of them. Shane O’Donnell and Peter Duggan were terrific after long absences and John Conlon enjoyed his day mopping up ball in the half-back line. But Clare didn’t need any heroics from Tony Kelly and this game won’t have told them much about what they have in the full-back line.
For all the pessimism in Cork, they’re not going to come to Semple next Sunday and keep lamping long ball into the forwards and hop …
- April 25, 2022
