*Brendy Rouine is among the players getting a first start of the 2023 NFL. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill EIGHT CLARE footballers will make their first start of this year’s Allianz National Football League in what will be the county’s last outing in the competition.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill Clare’s seven-year stay in Division Two came to an end on Sunday when Kildare saw off Limerick after the Banner men fell to high flying Derry in Owenbeg.
*Cathal O’Connor returns from injury. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill COLM COLLINS has named his starting fifteen for Clare’s crunch tie with Derry this Sunday in the Allianz National Football League.
*Stephen Ryan brings the ball away from goal. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill WHILE the siege mentality that we expected from Clare at the weekend never materialised, the Banner’s footballers will need to find their proven resilience and defiance over the final two rounds of the Allianz National Football League if they are to have any hope …
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Eoin Cleary tries to scramble a pass together. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill THERE IS “no room left for error” among the Clare senior footballers as they face a massive battle to retain their status as a Division 2 side.
*Pearse Lillis on the charge for Clare. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IF CLARE ARE to continue in Division 2 of the Allianz National Football League, they must win their remaining two games and even that may not be enough.
*Dublin manager Dessie Farrell with Clare boss Colm Collins. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DUBLIN senior football manager, Dessie Farrell has said they were not forced to reach for the panic button despite being pushed to the pin of their collar in Saturday’s Allianz National Football league clash with Clare.
*Jamie Malone is tackled by James McCarthy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill THEY MATCHED DUBLIN for all of Saturday’s National Football League tie and led by six points with fifteen minutes remaining but Colm Collins and the Clare footballers were gutted to leave Croke Park with no points to show for their efforts.
*Dermot Coughlan was one of Clare’s top performers. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill CLARE’s senior footballers came agonisingly close to recording one of the results of the year against the kingpins of Dublin.
*Cathal O’Connor’s absence in the middle of the field was telling in the dying moments. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill IN HIS FIRST column of 2023, Ger Keane analyses how Clare’s footballers let a six point lead slip against Kildare to fall to back to back defeats in the Allianz National Football League.
