I thought we were too lethargic starting , sometimes what is needed is just sheer hard work and never giving up and there wasn't much of that on show in the first quarter.
In my opinion we had already upped the intensity and we were getting back into the game before the sending off.
There was no need for the Clare player to be near Buckley as the play had already moved on and I think it was an attempt to rough up probably the one player who most carried the fight to Clare in the first quarter , assisted by Healy and Dwyer in particular.
We will never know now but I think it was a game that Cork was going to win even without the sending off.
In fact, in spite of being poor in the opening half look at the number of chances butchered and frees missed.
The second half was no better, I think we missed enough reasonable chances to have won that game by a very large margin.
I may be wrong but I counted four who started who are underage again next year.
Cashman, Walsh, , O Connell and O Sullivan.
In addition we have seen James O Brien, Peter O Shea, Barry Walsh, Barry O Flynn, Johnny Galvin and Adam O Sullivan getting game time as well.
The 2021 minor team was an exceptional group so it was always going to be hard to break into this team.