Considine: I’m being sabotaged

TRIAL by television — that’s how Clare manager Tony Considine last night branded the suspension of his four players and three from Cork under the new disciplinary structures adopted at the start of the year.

Posing the question why one Cork player escaped being suspended, he asked if it had been a case of Clare officials accepting the sanctions. “Did they really fight for our lads, or is this a case of the great Frank Murphy again — and I would call him, great, because he is great — standing up for his own, which he has done for year in, year out,’’ he commented.

On the broader front, Considine insisted it was “a fallacy” to suggest that the suspensions (if they are not successfully appealed) would not impact on his team as much because they will be meeting Antrim in the first of their three games in the Round Robin part of the qualifier series.