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Mon 07 Jul 2007Loughnane left to mull over roleClare 2-10 Galway 0-14:  Ten years ago in the same dressingrooms in Cusack Park, Ennis, Ger Loughnane gave a bravura performance in a wide-ranging media conference at the end of Clare's All-Ireland press night. On Saturday evening he was in a different world, trying to explain the incoherent and lacklustre efforts by his current charges, Galway.As usual Loughnane was blunt in his appraisal, professing himself baffled by the dire shortcomings of his team before volunteering that he might not be the right manager to find whatever alchemy is needed to turn Galway into a side resembling even the sum of its parts let alone something greater.