Colm Collins: Clare made far too many silly mistakes

Clare manager Colm Collins. Picture: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

It wasn’t just the wide-open spaces of the main grandstand and terraces in Fitzgerald Stadium that stood out among the sparse crowd of 200 on Saturday — it was the space a rampant Kerry managed to create on the field.

“It’s just very disappointing,” reflected Clare manager Colm Collins afterwards. “We made far too many silly mistakes and handed over too many silly balls to them and we were punished. In the first half, we gave them 1-7 by handing over possession. You can’t do that against good teams, it’s as simple as that. You need to be mean with the ball.”