CORK’S CIARAN SHEEHAN is to remain committed to Australian Rules in 2017 after Carlton have confirmed that he will stay with the club.
The Melbourne club made the announcement that the 26 year-old has been re-rookie listed ahead of next season as they completed their activity in the 2016 AFL draft.
The news is a boost to Sheehan who has endured huge injury problems in recent seasons. Sheehan moved to Carlton in November 2013 after a GAA career that saw him win an All-Ireland U21 medal in 2009 and an All-Ireland senior medal in 2010.
He made his AFL debut for Carlton in August 2014 and went on to make four appearances before the conclusion of that season.
However since then he has been hit hard by injuries, battling hip and groin problems in 2015 before suffering a hamstring and knee injury this year.
He did manage to make four appearances early this year in the Victorian Football League for Northern Blues – Carlton’s affiliate club – before he was struck down by injury again and sidelined for the rest of the year.
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Now maybe the rest of sports clubs can follow suit for a few weeks. Show a bit of solidarity.
@Splat: the GAA ate only doing it because their supporters can’t behave themselves. Rugby and football (not Gaelic) supporters would have more respect for everyone
@Mattress Dick: *are
@Mattress Dck: I refuse to call football ‘soccer’ btw. Feel dirty just typing it
@Mattress Dick: agree. Football is football. GAA is Gaelic Football or GAA
@Mattress Dick: Soccer Hooligans might flow off the tongue better.
@Mattress Dick: it’s football in England. It’s soccer in Ireland. We have our own football
@John kane: not really, maybe outside of our biggest city. In Dublin football means the one where only one player can use their hands and the rest have to use their feet.
The other one is footrug!
@Mattress Dick: it is called both football and soccer in Ireland and elsewhere.
If someone told me they play football I’d have to clarify which one they meant.
@Mattress Dick: The proper name for the game is Association Football. From the word association came the name soccer. In the 60s and 70s it was called soccer widely including in England. There was a magazine/annual called Soccer. The new fangled infatuation with the term football being the only proper term is just that, an infatuation! Many clubs had the abbreviation AFC after their names to show the were Association Football Clubs! Rugby is properly called Rugby Football and few enough players kick the ball. American football often refer to their players as footballers and only two players, the kicker and punter kick the ball! For many people, soccer is just a term to differentiate which form of football is being played!