Clare selector Michael Browne says the issues identified during Clare's league campaign will take time to address.
The Banner face Kilkenny in this afternoons relegation final in Nowlan Park, where the losers will make the drop to Division 1B for 2016.
Clare have won just one of their five league games to date, conceding nine goals, including two against todays opposition when they met last weekend.
Browne says the squad are still a work in progress
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After Dublin's comfortable defeat of Limerick last evening three more places in the semi finals of Division 1 of the Hurling League are on offer today.
First up at O'Connor Park, Offaly take on Tipperary.
At 4, Cork face Wexford at Páirc Uí Rinn, and at the same time Waterford take on Galway at Walsh Park.
