Seven point win for Clare as footballers kick off 2021 campaign
*Clare captain Eoin Cleary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare’s senior footballers have kicked off their 2021 campaign with a fully merited seven point win.
*Clare captain Eoin Cleary. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare’s senior footballers have kicked off their 2021 campaign with a fully merited seven point win.
*Clare’s Cian O’Dea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. Clare’s senior football side to take on Laois in their first outing of 2021 has been named.
While the majority of the players that helped Clare to maintain Division 2 league status over the past four years are expected to fill key positions in the upcoming Allianz League, a number of players are set to make their senior competitive debuts over the coming weeks.
Clare senior football captain, Eoin Cleary has backed Colm Collins to continue as manager of the county footballers.
Clare’s senior footballers have exited the championship falling at the first hurdle as they suffered a three point defeat to Tipperary on Sunday afternoon.
Eoin Cleary will take to the field in his first championship outing as Clare captain on Sunday without the backing of the Banner Roar.
As the Allianz National Football League recommended, Clare returned to winning ways albeit by making hard work of Fermanagh.
Cratloe deservedly advanced to their fifth consecutive Senior Football Championship Semi-Final after a powerful finish saw them produce a dramatic seven point turnaround to end St Joseph’s Miltown’s two year reign in Cusack Park on Sunday evening.
With Kilmurry Ibrickane, Lissycasey and St Breckan’s safely into the final four of the senior football championship, the semi-final line-up will be completed this weekend as four teams vie for just one solitary spot in in a two match blitz, writes Eoin Brennan
St Josephs Miltown’s hopes of a third Clare senior football title in a row are alive and well.