Big stage experience may tell for Saints
Clare and Antrim are traditionally bystanders on big football days in Croke Park and it’s an astonishing feat that the club champions from both counties have reached this stage. There are previous cases to draw on of clubs from lowly counties making waves in this grade though, with Baltinglass of Wicklow winning in 1990 and Carlow’s Éire Óg contenders in the 90s.
St Gall’s are the Ulster representatives in this game but their opponents have been tagged as devoted disciplines of the northern province style of play.
