Clare joint-manager Donal Moloney conceded that their profligacy in front of the posts came back to haunt them at the final whistle in Pairc Ui Chaoimh today.

The curtain came down on the 2017 championship campaign for Maloney & Co in today's quarter-final and, speaking to RTE Sport afterwards, he said: "Tipperary have been worthy All-Ireland champions, they set some very high standards last year.

"And we didn't have all of our guns firing today in order to be able to take them.

"We had momentum at that point but the reality is we've got to get out of being in those positions because that takes an enormous amount out of a team.

"It was other parts of the game that cost us…some of our shooting let us down."

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