Confidence the commodity Clare are missing most

Driving home and listening to some of the post-match interviews yesterday on RTÉ Radio 1, they didn’t appear to tell you anything yet they told you everything, writes Anthony Daly.

When Martin Kiely asked Eamon O’Shea what he wanted out of the league, the Tipp boss said he didn’t really know. He just wanted his players to reflect on the way they are training.

When Jacqui Hurley asked pundit Tom Dempsey for his opinion on this league, Dempsey said its unpredictability was like a riddle.