Clancy: Micko has instilled confidence

THE X factor that Mick O’Dwyer has instilled into Laois football is confidence, according to their midfield maestro Pauric Clancy, who picked up the Vodafone player of the month award for March in Dublin yesterday.

Clancy along with Tipperary’s talented forward Eoin Kelly, received the awards from Sean Kelly in his first official function as GAA President.

“I think what Micko has instilled in the team is confidence,” Clancy says. “We know we are well able to do it, but confidence is the thing we needed to acquire. I don’t know why there was no confidence there before, because the same players have been here for the past four years. But it has taken Micko to bring out the football in us. I can’t explain it, but we wouldn’t be in a league semi-final only for him.”