This article is from page 71 of the 2011-04-05 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 71 JPG
CLARE’S fate still lies in their own hands but they never seem to make it easy for themselves as manager Ger O’Loughlin expressed afterwards.
“I thought we showed a great auld spirit in the second half after a very, very poor and at times completely dead and no attitude first half but I couldn’t ask for any more in the second half.
“We gave them the game really with errors again and we just have to try and eliminate that at this level against better teams and I consider Laois to be one of the better teams in Division 2. If you give them the chance, they will take it and I thought overall that we might deserve to win it with our second half display. But when you miss as much as we missed in the second half from very scoreable positions and you concede the soft enough scores that we did, you are going to end up on the losing end. So I’m disappointed but as I have just said to the lads in the dressing room, we are just going to have to pick ourselves up because it’s still in our own hands. If we beat Carlow in Cusack Park in two weeks time, we will be OK.”
“The bottom line is if we won today, we could have eased our way into the Carlow match and tried a couple of things but now it’s a make-or-break game. So destiny is in our own hands but we definitely need to improve. You would go into the Carlow match worried because we are only hitting it in phases.”