Fitzgerald and Clare wasting no time in embedding new crop of leaders

Five games in and Mark Fitzgerald’s new-look Banner are banging hard on the door of promotion back to Division 2.

NEW BLOOD: Alan Sweeney of Clare and teammates. Pic: Seb Daly, Sportsfile

To those on the outside looking in, the Clare footballers have exceeded expectation. How could it be viewed any other way?

Last June, their general of 10 years, Colm Collins, stepped off the sideline.