Will Slattery

energy that Clare had Tib just couldn't match it Do you buy into this notion that they're not good champions like Tipperary traditionally they don't tend to follow up a good year with a good year

maybe this Tipperary squad should have bigger ambitions they should be thinking we can win two in a row or three in a row but it's hard to do And do you think Liam Cal's been on the road a while now when you consider Waterford now into Tipperary the way you're talking there about some of the elder statesmen a little bit of a rebuild required perhaps do you get the impression Cal's sticking around?

So to Clare, you mentioned you've kind of had a soft spot for this Clare team.

Obviously, the concern for them coming in was fairly clear to everybody.

They'd conceded 6-51 in their first two matches.

And in fairness to Lowen, he made a few changes.

Wasn't shy in making them in the full back line and John Conlon in and

it seemed to work a treat, really.

I mean, he kind of got a tune out of them, and obviously everything, you know, the energy and the physicality, and they were just so up for the game.

But that leaky defence, that was the worry.

Yeah, they're in Porky Queave on Sunday at four.

So that's a really interesting game now.

One talking point out of that game was the Willie Connors tackle on Mark Rogers.

And if people didn't see it, like Rogers is down lifting the ball and then a bit like a sprinter out of the blocks, he's getting back to...

vertical and you know is therefore kind of wide open not fully bracing himself and Connors comes in and gives him a good smash um

Rodgers tries to continue probably shouldn't have been let continue groggy in the end goes off and a lot of people are saying this is one of the tackles that just has to be stamped out now there was no red card given for it further point made that Kyle Hayes his neck injury last year in club stems from very similar incident that's a real bad one isn't it like that is that is one that needs to be stamped out when you can line a fellow up like that it is Joe and

Yeah, I totally agree.

It was one of the, it's the kind of less talked about successes of the Jim Gavin rule that he almost overnight has changed the culture, which has been around my lifetime and your lifetime as well, I suspect, you know.

Come here on Clare as a final thought.

Where do you have them in this pecking order?