U21 stars keen to wipe slate clean after senior exits

Talk to those Clare U21 hurlers who featured with Davy Fitzgerald’s seniors this year and they will tell you about the fillip that was the former side’s date with Tipperary just four days after the county’s flagship team had been sunk by Wexford.

Their colleagues in Galway have had to wait longer for an antidote.

Seven weeks have passed now since the Connacht county let slip a six-point lead to Tipperary in Thurles and the opportunity to make amends for men like Cathal Mannion and Jonathan Glynn has had to wait until this Saturday.