Clare have 'a great chance' of reaching Munster final - David Tubridy

After 15 years in the Clare jersey, David Tubridy is now getting used to floodlights of a different kind: in The Sunday Game studio.

But after watching his county get relegated from Division 2 of the Allianz Football League, the competition's all-time leading scorer (22-412) couldn't help but wonder if soldiering on for one more season would have made a difference.

"It's hard to watch, hard to look in," he said at the launch of RTÉ Sport's 2023 championship coverage

"Seeing Clare get relegated this year, it kind of hurt a bit more. Because you're thinking 'If I'd stayed on, would they have stayed up?' You always have those things in the back of your head.

"What ifs. If you were there, you could have kicked that point or done something to settle it. Experience was needed the last few minutes against Kildare and against Dublin as well.

"We lost Cathal O'Connor in the Kildare game, a massive loss, and we had to bring on a few young fellas. Kildare piled the pressure on and we didn’t have the experience to slow down the game. The same with Dublin."

Having met Kerry in six of the previous seven years, Clare seemed to have caught a break in the 2022 Munster SFC draw but suffered a surprise home quarter-final defeat to Limerick, following the first penalty shootout in championship history.

They face a similar route to a provincial final (and place in the All-Ireland series) this year, with Limerick awaiting the winners from Cork's quarter-final trip to Ennis this Sunday.

"When you see the draw last year, it was in my head to stay on," admitted Tubridy. "I was thinking 'There's a great chance of a Munster final here’. But the body told me ‘cop on to yourself. The injuries crept up on me and I didn’t think I’d be able to push myself to