Low-key Clare limp past Limerick

Clare 0-16 Limerick 0-13: “Forgettable” is the adjective that does this Munster SFC quarter-final most justice. The sort of game that, were it recorded on a VHS, you would be happy to record over instantly.

Colm Collins may hope to use the dvd of it as a video nasty in the coming days before he hopes Clare can expunge it from their memory banks ahead of facing Kerry in Fitzgerald Stadium. To be associated with as stammering a showing as this runs against the progression the Division 2-bound side have made this year.

John Brudair, on the other hand, cut a reasonably satisfied figure afterwards having seen a team doomed to Division 4 next season leech onto Clare until the very end and subdue their captain Gary Brennan. Were they not so erratic in their shooting early on, an upset may very well have been on the cards but their attack was simply not up to the task. In total, they accrued 16 wides.