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*Newmarket-on-Fergus manager, Tomás Ryan speaks with RCB’s Nicholas Rynne. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill
Scoring efficiency must improve if Newmarket-on-Fergus are to upset the odds by qualifying for the Clare SHC final.
Newmarket-on-Fergus face off with Ballyea this Sunday and the Blues come into this last four clash fresh from eliminating neighbours Wolfe Tones from the quarter-finals.
Lessons will be need to be put into practice from their clash with the Shannon side, manager Tomás Ryan maintained. “We played well, especially in the first quarter. We just missed a lot of chances. Wolfe Tones were very clinical. We weren’t playing particularly bad but in the second quarter we definitely dropped our workrate”.
Ryan was adamant that the Blues would have to improve on both their shot selection and efficiency in front of goal having hit fifteen wides in the quarter-final. “Overall, we were ahead in general play but didn’t put it on the scoreboard. We got there in the end but there were a lot of missed chances. We have been efficient with twenty plus scores in most games. There is a little bit of concern but we will take it, sometimes these games don’t go exactly according to plan”.
