Shannon to flow in The Vale

This Saturday, 12th September, Clonakilty will host Shannon in The ODM Munster Senior Cup in The Vale at 2.30pm. Arguably the strongest club on the island Shannon could prove too strong for the locals but Clon’s coaches and management will probably be more interested in measuring the potential of their squad against this impressive yardstick. One thing is absolutely clear there will be no lacking in commitment from the West Cork players as their preparation in recent weeks prove. They have trained up to four times a week and will relish the opportunity to test themselves against such vaunted opposition.
The visitors, nine times winners of The All Ireland League since 1995, will not take the challenge lightly. As a club in the new division 1A, Shannon, the current All Ireland League champions, will expect nothing other than a comprehensive victory but they will have to earn anything they take home with them.They will meet a Clonakilty side with a distinctly youthful look. Youth training has always been high on the agenda of the club and the underage section has been the club’s lifeblood over the years. The vast majority of Saturdays squad have graduated through this system.
A new underage season is about to commence and the registration day is also this Saturday. The club is enrolling players from under 7s to under 19s. Any player who was born on or after the 1st January 2003 is welcome to come along with a parent or guardian to enrol and meet the coaches in the clubhouse from 11.00am to noon.
The J2 side lost out to Dolphin in the first round of The Dennehy Cup last Sunday. The players annual outing the night before may have had a bearing on the result as they were well in contention at half time, with both sides scoreless, but ran out of steam in the second period to lose 20 – 0. They will try to put that right this weekend when they play Kinsale in the O’Sullivan Cup in Kinsale at 2.30 on Sunday. Meanwhile the J1 competitions kick off with the County Cup and Clonakilty are drawn away to Kinsale on this Saturday at 5.30pm.