No changes on Tipperary ladies football team to play Cork in Clonakilty
Crucial game to decide quarter-final place
Tipperary, who lost to Galway last weekend, have named an unchanged team for the crunch TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football Senior Championship clash with Cork in Clonakilty tomorrow, Saturday.
The game has a 2pm start in west Cork, with Cork and Tipperary vying for the runners-up spot behind Galway in Group 4.
The game, therefore, will be a straight shootout between the Munster rivals for a place in the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship quarter-finals.
Cork fell by six points to Galway in their previous outing, with Tipperary losing out to the Tribeswomen by nine points.
That line of form would suggest that not much will separate Cork and Tipp, who played in the Munster Senior Championship at the end of April.
Aishling Moloney bagged an incredible individual haul of 1-12 on that occasion but it still wasn’t enough for Tipp as Cork won by 1-17 to 1-14.
Cork will be favourites to get the job done in Clonakilty but Tipp will provide stern opposition.
Cork boss Shane Ronayne, the former Tipp manager, makes two changes to his starting line-up.
Captain Máire O’Callaghan and Orlaith Cahalane come into the team, with Emma Cleary and Sarah Leahy dropping out.
The Tipperary team is L Fitzpatrick; E Kelly, L Spillane, E Cronin; M Curley (captain), L Morrissey, C O’Dwyer; E Morrissey, N Towey; S English, M Murphy, C English; A McGuigan, N Martin, A Moloney.