No need to hit panic button as Clare focus on plan

Clare v Tipperary

Clare selector Michael Browne nodded in agreement when he saw the headline of Anthony Daly’s column in this newspaper on the Monday morning after their league defeat to Cork.

The dust had barely settled on the Banner’s second loss in six days when the keyboard warriors gathered en masse, forming a queue to have a cut at Davy Fitzgerald. The slings and arrows directed at the Clare management were far from pleasant. It left Daly with a sour taste in his mouth, expressing outrage that the ‘snipers’ were already lining up.