"The board has to go, for the sake of Clare hurling and football, " he says. "Everyone's thinking it but no one's putting their name to it but I'm putting mine to it now.

People are afraid to stand up because they're afraid of a backlash but the time has come for clubs to roll up their sleeves and stand up.

"What happened to Tony Considine this year was a disgrace. How could he win with the kind of atmosphere there was with the board out to get him? But this isn't about Tony Considine or Ciaran O'Neill or Tim Crowe now. We're gone. This is about Clare hurling and football, two things and games I love. Not one member of that top table has played for Clare and it shows.

There's too much baggage and agendas there and there has to be a clear-out for the good of Clare GAA."

Meanwhile, another outgoing member of Considine's sacked management committee, Tim Crowe, has stated that the Davy FitzgeraldConsidine saga could have been resolved if it had remained as a player-management issue and not a county board-management issue.

According to Crowe, the day the Sunday Tribune broke the story of Fitzgerald's departure from the panel last January, Considine told Crowe to contact his and Fitzgerald's club, Sixmilebridge, and inform them that "if the player goes to Tony Considine, it'll be sorted out."

Crowe says that message was relayed but never acted upon.

Meanwhile, Considine yesterday continued to add to the media frenzy the county board were so keen to avoid by again reiterating the shabby manner in which he was sacked.