Clare are due big game but Galway will be formidable

Ger Loughnane, being the bould Ger that he is, just can’t help himself sometimes. Cutting loose, slashing and burning and razing Galway, Micheal Donoghue and Joe Canning is nothing new but the timing of his comments, with Clare now in the other corner, could turn on his own county like a backdraft.

Deep down, the Galway players know Ger doesn’t represent what the Clare players or management think but that is irrelevant now.

Deep down, we always knew Nicky English didn’t laugh at us in the 1993 Munster final. He was more or less sniggering at his own players who set him up for a point. Nicky’s attitude was, ‘Will ye shag off, and hit it over yer selves’.