Antrim SHC – Rossa welcome key player back

Read analysis of Rossa’s championship team

Rossa

Management:

Colly Murphy (manager), Sean Shannon, Sean McManus, Danny O’Neill, Paddy Trainor and Kieran Grego (Selectors) Niall McHugh (S&C)

Championship programme:

Rossa v St John’s, Sunday August 9

Rossa v Dunloy, Sunday August 16

McQuillan’s Ballycastle v Rossa, Sunday August 23

Team news:

Like the other three teams in their group, Rossa are a dual club, though in the past they have struggled to serve their two masters.

Last year they played two group games in the Antrim Championship and lost to Dunloy and Cushendall.

They have the same management as last year and that continuity may help them.

With regards their squad, they have already lost three players to injury, namely Eoghan ONeill Eoghan McMenamin and Ryan O’Neill. There are no new players for the squad, but they have been boosted by the return of James Connolly who missed nearly all of last season with a knee injury.