Roaming Rafferty retained by Armagh

Ethan Rafferty remains in goal for Armagh for their Ulster SFC opener against Antrim but it looks like Stephen Cluxton will be wearing number 16 for Dublin as Evan Comerford is recalled for the Boys in Blue’s trip to Wicklow in Leinster.

The FRC’s reshaping of the ‘three-up/three-back’ rule – which means teams in possession must now keep four players in their own half (effectively making it the ‘three-up/four-back’ rule) – had led to some minor speculation that Orchard County boss Kieran McGeeney might toy with the idea of giving Blaine Hughes an unlikely recall as the championship season kicks into gear.

Hughes, of course, is considered the more ‘specialist’ goalkeeper of the pair while…

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