By Paul KeaneBack in August, Podge Collins found himself marking Tony Kelly for a brief period when Cratloe played Ballyea in the Clare championship. The play-making duo of Clare’s 2013 All-Ireland triumph went head to head on that occasion and Kelly came out on top. “He’ll need watching on Sunday, but if you go through their entire team, nearly all of them have played inter-county in either hurling or football,” noted Collins. “It’ll be over to Boston, then the Munster League starts for the pre-season, then the National League starts, then the league for the championship starts. It just goes into one big season, because as soon as the club stops, the county starts and that’s the way it goes.”

Source: Irish Examiner October 19, 2018 04:40 UTC