Qualifier deals double blow to Banner

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Designed to give teams a second chance, to make all the six-plus months of hard training slog seem worthwhile, for some unlucky sides the new system would appear to be even more heartless and cruel than the old. Clare being the latest case in point.

Hammered at home last Sunday week by Limerick in their first championship outing, beaten again six days later at the same venue.