All too easy for Clare as WIT fail to turn up

A winning debut for Davy Fitzgerald in his first competitive game at the helm of his native county as a far fitter, faster and fired-up Clare destroyed WIT in Sixmilebridge yesterday in this Waterford Crystal SH Tournament preliminary game.

It was a competent display from a youthful and experimental home 15 but, in truth, WIT simply didn’t turn up. They were there physically, though even at that they barely scraped together a full team, but with an eye to Thursday’s Fitzgibbon Cup first-round date with CIT their spirit was very much elsewhere.

Manager Peter Kirwan: “We were short about 10 who would probably have been playing, a few also who are involved with their own counties, but our championship is on Thursday; the Fitzgibbon Cup, that’s our priority, so we weren’t too pushed about not having them either.”