We’ve underperformed, but 2013 was no fluke, says Colm Galvin

“When they won the 2013 All-Ireland, it was the greatest fluke of all time.” Colm Galvin might have expected to hear Ger Loughnane say as much following a Clare defeat, but after winning through to a first Munster final since 2008? 

Then again, Galvin has heard a variation of that putdown many times since Clare pipped Cork in a September replay four years ago.

“We’ve done nothing yet to say that we’ll beat Cork. It’ll be on the day that we’ll have to prove ourselves once more and that 2013 wasn’t a fluke because we’ve heard that from a lot of critics. It wasn’t really a fluke, it was the way we were playing. It was the momentum we had behind us that year, which was a help, and now Cork have that momentum behind them, so it will be very hard to stop them.