Davy happy to get Clare back on front foot

Clare 1-32 Laois 0-15

Because, even after this training exercise where 13 of his starters had a point etched beside their name, and even as his county ran up their highest championship score since Tony Griffin put four goals on the same opposition 10 seasons ago, the manager was bullish as he stood outside the Cusack Park dressing rooms on Saturday.

“All you can do is beat what’s put in front of you,” he said. “We didn’t become a bad team overnight, as people made us out to be. There’s been no bunch of lads that felt as bad in the last two weeks, since the Cork game. But we knew the formation Laois used against Galway and we worked all week on a plan for that. The Clare hurling public of course won’t be happy with your plan, which means you’ve to use the ball to a certain point and then score. But we aren’t a short ball team, we vary the ball in and we used short and long fairly well today. But we’ve bigger tests ahead.”