The Clare Senior Football Manager Frank Doherty (left) has expressed his disappointment footballers that his side's request to move the throw-in time for their qualifier assignment in Donegal next Saturday has been rejected."It would make you wonder if there's one set of rules for one and a different one for others," manager Frank Doherty told the Irish Independent. "They said the gardai in Ballybofey will not allow a match before six o'clock because of parking problems but Donegal have another ground in Ballyshannon which would actually be closer for us. Could they not have moved it there. There's no point in us going up and staying over on Friday night because, with a seven o'clock throw-in, we'd just be hanging around all day waiting for the game."We'll just have to go up on Saturday morning and break the journey somewhere on the way", he added
Compared to last Saturday's first round football qualifiers -- all but one had 7.0 throw-ins -- four of the second-round games have earlier starts. But despite their pleas and the massive distance involved -- Ennis to Ballybofey is a 360-mile round trip -- Clare's game is not one of them.
Meanwhile, Clare have been hit on the double, losing five of the panel, who ran beaten Munster finalists Limerick to four points, because of recession-linked emigration. "There's no work here, so when lads get an offer to go to the United States, to make a make a bit of money and play a bit of ball for three months you can't stand in their way," Doherty told the Independent. He continued: "We had a panel of 24 and we've lost about five lads since the Limerick game but I've brought in two or three since to fill it out and after watching the Munster final it's clear we didn't do too badly and we'll take heart from that."
