Kilkenny v Clare on All-Ireland semi-final day: Round 3
They go again! It’s the third year in-a-row that Kilkenny and Clare are meeting in the final four of the All-Ireland hurling championship. Kilkenny currently lead the rivalry 2-0 after last year’s incredible battle that was effectively decided by a terrific save by Eoin Murphy.
We’ll have team line-ups for you and any late changes that arise before the 3pm throw-in so do stay with us for the afternoon.
Here’s how the Kilkenny team has been named to start:
1. Eoin Murphy (Glenmore)
2. Mikey Butler (O’Loughlin Gaels), 3. Huw Lawlor (O’Loughlin Gaels), 4. Tommy Walsh (Tullaroan),
5. David Blanchfield (Bennettsbridge), 6. Richie Reid (Shamrocks Ballyhale), 7. Mikey Carey (Young Irelands)
8. Cian Kenny (James Stephens), 9. Paddy Deegan (O’Loughlin Gaels — captain)
10 Adrian Mullen (Shamrocks Ballyhale), 11. TJ Reid (Shamrocks Ballyhale), 12. John Donnelly (Thomastown)
13. Martin Keoghan (Tullaroan), 14. Billy Ryan (Graigue Ballycallan), 15. Eoin Cody (Shamrocks Ballyhale)
And here is the Clare team that has been named to start:
1. Eibhear Quilligan (Feakle)
2. Adam Hogan (Feakle), 3. Conor Cleary (Kilmaley — captain), 4. Conor Leen (Corofin)
5. Diarmuid Ryan (Cratloe), 6. John Conlon (Clonlara), 7. David McInerney (Tulla),
8. David Fitzgerald (Inagh-Kilnamona), 9. Cathal Malone (Sixmilebridge)
10. Tony Kelly (Ballyea), 11. Mark Rodgers (Scariff), 12. Peter Duggan (Clooney-Quin)
13. Aidan McCarthy (Inagh-Kilnamona), 14. Shane O’Donnell (Éire Óg Ennis), 15. David Reidy (Éire Óg Ennis).
Before throw-in, have a read of Declan Bogue’s preview here:
There is a sense Kilkenny have figured Clare out, so much rides on this third meeting
The teams are in the pre-match parade now. Can you call a winner?
Poll Results:
Throw-in! Kilkenny v Clare
1 min: Kilkenny 0-1 Clare 0-0
TJ Reid gets Kilkenny off the mark with an early free.
2 mins: Kilkenny 0-1 Clare 0-0
Diarmuid Ryan tries to raise a white flag for Clare but his attempt at the posts goes wide. Adam Hogan then wins a free off TJ Reid at the other end to keep the ball with Clare.
3 mins: Kilkenny 0-1 Clare 0-0
A half block on Adrian Mullen sees Shane O’Donnell get on the ball for his first touch. Possession then comes to David McInerney who also goes for a point but it’s Clare’s second wide of the day.
4 mins: Kilkenny 0-1 Clare 0-0
TJ Reid tries to point from a sideline. It’s a terrific effort; there’s plenty of air under it. But the wind, pulls it wide. Still just the one point on the board.
6 mins: Kilkenny 0-2 Clare 0-1
Cian Kenny doubles Kilkenny’s advantage after shortening his grip. Aidan McCarthy then gets Clare’s account up and running from the puckout.
6 mins: Kilkenny 0-2 Clare 0-1
Great defensive effort by Clare to smother out Mullen and Eoin Cody. John Conlon gives out a roar as he whistle goes.
7 mins: Kilkenny 0-2 Clare 0-2
SAVE!
Eoin Murphy gets down to keep out a shot from Aidan McCarthy after Clare win a turnover. The referee gives Clare a free and McCarthy taps it over to level the tie.
8 mins: Kilkenny 0-2 Clare 0-2
DOUBLE SAVE!
Eibhear Quilligan keeps his net clean from Cian Kenny with the first attempt, and Mullen with the rebound shot.
10 mins: Kilkenny 0-3 Clare 0-2
Cian Kenny gets his first point of the day. He’s been busy so far in the opening 10 minutes and he puts Kilkenny ahead again.
12 mins: Kilkenny 0-5 Clare 0-2
Paddy Deegan scores a monster point from distance and now Kilkenny are two in front. David Blanchfield adds one straight after. Three between them now.
12 mins: Kilkenny 0-6 Clare 0-2
SAVE!
Quilligan delivers again as Mikey Carey storms through to create a one-on-one with the Clare keeper. A third vital save to keep them alive. TJ Reid points the ’65 and Kilkenny are starting to stretch their legs.
14 mins: Kilkenny 0-6 Clare 0-3
McCarthy scores a free to grab Clare’s first point since the eighth minute.
16 mins: Kilkenny 0-6 Clare 0-4
Butler makes a brilliant to get the ball on the run. He runs into plenty of space but his shot at the posts trails wide. An at the other end, David Reidy hits the target and there’s two between them now.
18 mins: Kilkenny 0-6 Clare 0-4
Carey takes a sideline but it falls straight into the paw of John Conlon. He then gives the ball away to Tommy Walsh.
Back to Clare again, and the ball down to the Clare forwards ends in a free out to Richie Reid.
19 mins: Kilkenny 0-7 Clare 0-4
A free awarded to Kilkenny for a chop down by Conor Leen on Martin Keoghan. And TJ Reid makes it a three-point game again.
19 mins: Kilkenny 0-7 Clare 0-4
Shane O’Donnell penalised for overcarrying while being tackled by Mikey Butler.
20 mins: Kilkenny 0-7 Clare 0-5
McCarthy scores from a tight angle to reduce the gap to two.
22 mins: Kilkenny 0-7 Clare 0-5
Uncharacteristic wide from TJ Reid. Mikey Carey gets on the puckout but his delivery is slightly delayed and Adam Hogan wins the ball ahead of Cody, and wins a free off his marker.
GOAL! Kilkenny 1-7 Clare 0-5 (Cody ’24)
24 mins: Kilkenny 1-8 Clare 0-5
Eoin Cody auditioning for a shot at Wimbledon with that overhead flick. He made a brilliant run along the inside but seemed to have run into traffic and was going to get smothered out. But he saved himself with that superb hit mid-air.
Billy Ryan then adds a point.
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Eoin Cody with a smashing goal for Kilkenny
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27 mins: Kilkenny 1-8 Clare 0-6
A free from McCarthy keeps Clare somewhat in touch. But they need a spark. Adrian Mullen then gets a free shot at the posts, but there’s not enough in it and it’s a chance to stretch their lead gone.
29 mins: Kilkenny 1-8 Clare 0-7
David Fitzgerald with an inspirational score for Clare, and they needed that. Can they capitalise on it?
30 mins: Kilkenny 1-9 Clare 0-7
TJ Reid knocks over a simple free in front of the posts to take the edge off the momentum Clare got from that Fitzgerald point.
31 mins: Kilkenny 1-9 Clare 0-8
Brilliant score as Peter Duggan catches the puckout and feeds Reidy for the finish between the posts.
34 mins: Kilkenny 1-9 Clare 0-7
SAVE!
Cathal Malone gives away a sideline under pressure. Cody then almost catches Quilligan off guard with the delivery into the square. But he dives in time to keep the ball out.
34 mins: Kilkenny 1-9 Clare 0-8
Another bad wide as Paddy Deegan is off target. And while Kilkenny are on top, those misses could come back to haunt them if Clare get a chance.
35 mins: Kilkenny 1-9 Clare 0-8
Free for Cody as he is fouled after trying to squeeze through on goal. Cody then goes back for afters and the referee overturns the ball to throw the ball in.
36 mins: Kilkenny 1-10 Clare 0-7
Billy Ryan slips through to drill the ball over and put five between them heading in for the break.
Half-Time! Kilkenny 1-10 Clare 0-8
36 mins: Kilkenny 1-10 Clare 0-9
Super fetch from Shane O’Donnell and Clare end up with a free to help cut the gap. And McCarthy obliges.
37 mins: Kilkenny 1-10 Clare 0-9
Short puckout to Huw Lawlor who whips it down to Keoghan on the wing. But again, it’s a bad miss to keep Clare in the game.
38 mins: Kilkenny 1-10 Clare 0-9
Hogan wins possession and gets a free for his endeavor. Diarmuid Ryan aims his free down to O’Donnell but Kilkenny deal with it.
39 mins: Kilkenny 1-10 Clare 0-10
Excellent from Duggan. Wins the ball in the air, battles his way through and swings the ball over. Now, there’s just three between them.
40 mins: Kilkenny 1-10 Clare 0-11
O’Donnell gets around Lawlor and gets a great point. Three unanswered points from Clare and it’s game on!
41 mins: Kilkenny 1-11 Clare 0-11
David Fitzgerald takes a shot the posts after a beautiful touch from Reidy to create some space for him. But it’s a wide, and Mikey Carey scores at the other end to restore the tree-point lead.
42 mins: Kilkenny 1-10 Clare 0-12
Fitzgerald comes striding through to get the ball off O’Donnell and drills it over. Back to two again.
43 mins: Kilkenny 1-11 Clare 0-12
Paddy Deegan the latest with a wide for Kilkenny. Diarmuid Ryan replies with another wide for Clare. Poor accuracy from both sides.
44 mins: Kilkenny 1-12 Clare 0-12
Sideline for Kilkenny and TJ Reid strikes it sweetly over the bar.
45 mins: Kilkenny 1-12 Clare 0-12
Clare win possession from a thro-in but an attempted pass to release McCarthy is deemed a throw and it’s a free for Kilkenny.
GOAL! Kilkenny 2-12 Clare 0-12 (Ryan ’46)
48 mins: Kilkenny 2-12 Clare 0-14
Clare are in a big hole now as Billy Ryan supplies Kilkenny’s second goal of the afternoon after the ball spilled out in a defensive error for Clare.
Tony Kelly scores at the other end shortly after followed by a McCarthy free to leave four between them.
49 mins: Kilkenny 2-13 Clare 0-14
Super score over the shoulder by John Donnelly. Clare making some changes as Cathal Malone is replaced by Ryan Taylor.
50 mins: Kilkenny 2-13 Clare 0-15
Free for Clare but O’Donnell is furious he was granted advantage as he was about to round Lawlor and maybe go for a goal. McCarthy stands over the ball and flicks the free over.
51 mins: Kilkenny 2-13 Clare 0-16
Mark Rodgers gets on the scoresheet and Clare are far from beaten in this game. They’ve responded brilliantly to the Ryan goal.
52 mins: Kilkenny 2-14 Clare 0-17
TJ Reid hooks it over from near the sideline. Good team move then follows from Clare as Ryan Taylor scoops the ball out wide to Reidy to split the posts.
Hogan then wins a free from the resultant puckout. He’s having a super battle with Cody.
53 mins: Kilkenny 2-14 Clare 0-17
SAVE!
Brilliant reflexes from Murphy to get down and parry away a powerful shot from McCarthy. And that could be crucial.
55 mins: Kilkenny 2-14 Clare 0-18
Free for Clare and a yellow card for Mikey Carey and McCarthy reduces the difference to two. That’s his ninth of the day.
56 mins: Kilkenny 2-15 Clare 0-18
John Donnelly with his second of the day to keep Kikenny’s noses in front. Ian Galvin comes on to take the place of David Fitzgerald.
TJ Reid then earns a free off Conor Cleary as Walter Walsh comes in for Martin Keoghan.
58 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-19
And Reid converts with no fuss. But Clare are not giving up and Tony Kelly steps up with a point from the puckout.
59 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-20
Paddy Deegan leaps into the air to intercept a crossfield pass from Ryan Taylor. A free is the result but TJ Reid doesn’t have enough juice in the effort and Clare come down the field, feed Ian Galvin and it’s over the bar.
61 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-20
Aron Shanagher on for Reidy as Clare come on the march again. Kelly tries one from distance but Walter Walsh gets a touch on it and his shot is off target.
62 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-20
Ian Galvin wins a free off Tommy Walsh. And McCarthy converts from a difficult position under pressure.
Just one between them now! Tom Phelan on for Mullen.
63 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-21
O’Donnell does brilliantly to get around Richie Reid. He gets the hard work done but the end product doesn’t result in a score.
64 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-22
LEVEL!!
Aron Shanager with the equalising score.
66 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-22
Tom Phelan wins a free for Kilkenny after a big ruck. Duggan gets a yellow as TJ Reid prepares to go for a point.
67 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-22
And it’s just too far out for him. That’s 11 wides for Kilkenny now. Conor Fogarty is on for Billy Ryan.
67 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-22
O’Donnell draws a free from Richie Reid. And now Clare have a chance to take the lead.
70 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-23
TJ Reid misses a crucial free to tie the game. Ian Galvin takes a shot at the other end but it’s a very tight angle and it’s wide.
Hogan then makes a huge defensive play to win the ball ahead of Cody and gets the free on his way out.
71 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-23
We’re into the first of three added minutes. Tony Kelly takes a free that goes wide.
71 mins: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-24
Tony Kelly point to put Clare two ahead! Is that enough to kill off Kilkenny?
Full-Time! Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-24
Not a great match but well done Kerry. They did the necessary.
Thank god the Mcguiness/Harte brand of puke football lost yesterday. It’s killing the game as a spectacle.
It was replaced by the most cynical brand of the game carried out by Kerry. 10 fouls to 1 in Kerry’s favour in the first half. Kerry were the offenders yesterday and made the game the worst final in living memory
The reason Donegal’s ‘style’ is so destructive is that opponents feel they have to match it in order to beat it, creating the kind of awful spectacle we saw yesterday. The Dublin game showed that playing good football against Donegal’s ‘system’ is at best risky. Kerry did the right thing, including playing keep ball in the final stages, notwithstanding the crazy goal chace they allowed Donegal to get in the final moments.
A well deserved win and everyone who likes to watch the game should be relieved the team trying to play a bit of football came through in the end.
So we praise kerry for playing negative football like ulster teams have been accused and lambasted for in years gone by but we dont praise donegal for their ‘system’ which completely hammered dublin.. or the way tyrone played in years gone by beating this wonderful majestic kerry team in all ireland semi amd finals! Funny that eh..
You seem to be suggesting there’s some kind of hypocrisy at play, but none is evident, maybe you could outline it?
Some football actually broke out in the semi-final. Dublin trashed Donegal in the first 20 minutes and Donegal had to come out and play. When they did that, Dublin looked very exposed. Dublin made Donegal’s wrecking tactics look okay because, unlike Kerry, Dublin responded by playing football. Because Kerry matched Donegal’s tactics yesteray, it was particularly dour. The common denominator in all this is Donegal. You take Donegal out and you have great football. Kerry v Mayo = too brilliant games, Dublin v Kerry last year = one of the best games every played in Croker.
Hypocrisy among the southern media/supporters regarding puke/horrible football eminating from the north and nowhere else? Never… theres never been negative tactics used by southern teams unless they were made to do it by the dirty northerners if you believe what you read or hear
You appear to have a persecution complex.
What do you dispute in what I’ve written above? Are you suggesting these wrecking tactics don’t orginiate in Ulster?
Look, teams can play however they like within the rules, but let’s not pretend it is anything to watch for spectators. It’s negative, ugly, and boring to watch. Is it not?
I was at the dublin v kerry game last summer. An awesome display of football. Yesterday made me want to cry. The better the mcguinness and hartes of this world are no longer involved the better
Wrecking tactics? Never heard of these… i remember tyrone v meath quite a few years back when we were absolutely beaten and battered off the ball at every opportunity and there wasnt the cry of ‘horrible tactics’ etc, the cry was we need to man up and become more physical and in your face.. tyrone learned from games like those and changed their game! Peter canavan, geard cavlan and eoin mulligan, true wrecking defensive legends!
I see you’re studiously avoiding the central question! :)
No question that Canavan, Mulligan et al. are absolute legends of the game. Nobody’s disputing that. During the latter period of Tyrone’s successful run they were playing fantastic football, scoring some ridiclous scores, and entertaining many a crowd.
Yesterday, Donegal socred 2 points from play in the first half, and tried their dammdest to stop a game of football breaking out. This is a whole other plantet in terms of negativity. Is it not?
2 points from play and a handful from frees.. id put that down to good defending surely? You’re doing a disservice to kerrys defence there. . Wasnt a great game but not every single game is going to be free flowing and scoring is it..
Meath have a tradition of negativity, but in a different way
Were you watching the same game Petr, kerry continually fouled during the game. They have two wing forwards who can’t/ don’t want to play the game. O’brien should have been sent off in first 20 minutes
I note that Pat Spillane warmly embraced “puke football” when delivered by his native county!
Fighting puke with puke out of necessity.
There was no puke football against Cork or Mayo!
Watching Donegal is like watching sh*t on a stick.
No puke football needed against Mayo..they play football the way it should be played..like Dublin really..just unlucky this year, let down by the most incompetent ref that ever has been.
Mayo do play good football but they can’t blame to ref. No more excuese from Mayo, they need to stand up and win.
Nor against dublin
Totally agree with Petr. Mayo are a great team and the two tough tests they gave Kerry may well have made the difference in the final, but don’t stoop to blaming the ref – it does Mayo a disservice.
Agreed. The likes of Killian O’Connor will ensure Mayo win it before very long.
Did you watch the Cork game? Maybe it didn’t look like puke because Cork were too naive to put men behind the ball but Kerry had only 2 men in the Cork half for the majority of that match – O’Donoghue and Geaney. Everyone else stayed back. If you were at the game it was very obvious.
Painful to watch..but hopefully the hurling replay will erase the memory…
Just witnessed two special buses drive by in Denny Street Tralee. That says it all. Well done boys! Ciarraí Abú!
A sad day for GAA yesterday. Gamesmanship,unsporting behaviour from Kerry
players and supporters, off the ball tactics,particularly against Murphy.
Kerry were one dimensional. Their ” system” was to hoof it into Donaghy.
This must be the poorest team to win Sam in twenty years !
I’ll give you 2/10 for that one Michael
Well done Kerry on winning both senior and minor titles.A great honour for the Dr Crokes club to captain Kerry.The last Dr Crokes player to captain Kerry was the famous Dick Fitzgerald a hundred years ago.Well done to all involved.
Bloody hell, I’m sick of the puritanical, hypocritical bulls**t that people have been spouting the last 2 days about so called puke football. The fact is, any team plays to its strenghts, doing otherwise is the definition of stupidity. Tyrone’s success in the 00s was based on a defensive style as they lacked the attacking options enjoyed by the likes of Kerry (Canavan et al aside), but had numerous abrasive defenders. In fact, it’s often forgotten that Kerry adopted similar tactics during Tyrone’s dominant period which bore some fruit.
McGuiness, like him or loathe him, took a team of largely average players and brought them an all ireland and another final appearance, display clear progression from all out defence to a counter attacking side. It’s also convenient to ignore the fact that Donegal had the highest scoring average of the 2012 championship, somewhere in the region of 18 points per match, put up 15 scores in the Ulster final this year and put 3-14 on the unbackable favourite in the semi.
Fact is that every team plays to win, Kerry yesterday were evidence of that, good value for the win most definitely but proof positive that negative tactics are far from the sole preserve of Northern teams.
Kerry had to play negative to counter Donegal. When they play the likes of Mayo or Dublin it’s actually worth watching, which is handy for those who watch the game.
So Kerry had to play a defensive style but you’d much rather prefer if Donegal played a style that would get them hockied? Sunday wasn’t the first time Kerry have employed the blanket defence when it suited them.
The fact is that regardless of system, a game is only boring when teams neglect to score or try and score, and at the lower levels every year produces matches where both sides try not to lose. Someone the understands the game would realise that every match isn’t Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, the Dublin vs Kerry semi last year, while very entertaining was a clash of 2 teams not bothering to defend.
The system employed by McGuiness while predicated on defence and work rate, generates excitement too with the quick turn from defence to attack and counter attacking from the half back line.
Hey Kerry footballers make sure you keep Sam clean down in the bog of Kerry !!!!!!!!!
We bulk buy the Mr Sheen down here boy!
Very nice keep it clean for the dubs next year
To Any of the Kerry supporters on their way home there is club football championship on in Kilkenny this evening if ye wanna see a decent game played as the good lord intended
I wouldn’t call the most popular tourist destination and home of tourism a ‘bog’…not from kerry myself but I’m sure if u were to kerry you’d realise
Not one player there yesterday would lace Johnny Doyles boots. That Kerry tramp that kicked away the ball at the end shouldn’t be let onto a football pitch again.
They wouldn’t have to, johnny would be doing it for them.
What was the foul count again ?
Add the incentive to the attacking team . Make goals 5 points or have certain lines which only 1 or 2 forwards can go back past . Teams wont change unless their odds of winning will increase
We’ll said Michael Eden, Kerry are dirty winners