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They just work off a different script to every other team in Clare. Clare football history teaches us this, but still we’re ready to pen their obitu- ary every time they take to the field. The quills were dipped and ready for action at 3.15pm in St Michael’s Park in Kilmihil.
Half-time and with the Blues 1-6 to 0-4 down the end seemed nigh. The team that slugged it out with the best
of them in the Munster club cam- paigns in 2003 and ’05 had reached the end of the road.
Maybe the Cois Fharraige festival took it out of them, or maybe they were looking forward to next Sun- day’s Strand Races.
Meanwhile, heads were shaking on the terraces, too many cigarettes were being smoked and abuse was being hurled at the management team made up of Johnny Joy, Donal Hayes and Georgie Roche.
‘“W hat the f**** are ye doing,’ went
one anguished and angered cry when Noelie O’Shea was called ashore in seven minutes before half time. His replacement, Kieran ‘Chilli’ De- loughrey wasn’t listening and neither were Joy, Hayes and Roche.
Instead they were focusing on half-time — getting the team into the dressing room as quickly as possible and starting over.
“We were a shambles in the first half,” said Joy afterwards. “Shannon Gaels were all over us and were dic- tating the pace of the game and we
laid it on the line at half-time.
‘There were some harsh words spo- ken in the dressing room I can tell you and players came out and showed their pride in the second half.
‘We needed to do what we’ve been doing all year, that is fight hard for the ball and start working as a team together. The lads out on the field won that game with their heart and their desire. Everyone one of them — the lads that started and the fellas that came on. I knew they had it in Wetoee eae