Carew remains on for third year at the helm
SLIGO GAA have reappointed Niall Carew as Sligo senior football team manager.
Ronan Sweeney and Keith Carty are to remain as selectors. The Sligo minor team will continue to be managed by David Cummins. Paul Taylor had previously been reappointed to the u21 role.
Kildare native Carew says his work will start immediately as he looks to progress his side even further in next year’s league and championship.
“Our work starts now. I’m away for the opening round of the Club Championship but I’ll have my selectors there having a look.
“It’s important to get the ball rolling early and have all your ducks in a row before the FBD and have players sorted,” he told The Sligo Champion.
Carew’s Sligo ended their Championship campaign earlier in the month when they were defeated by Clare in the All Ireland Football Championship qualifiers.
Their Connacht Championship campaign was also cut short when they suffered a semi- final defeat at the hands of Roscommon.
Carew made no secret of the fact that he was keen to stay on as manager for another year, and he feels that they can progress even further.
“We had two good years. We’ve made progress but maybe our results don’t show that. Really we were one game away from getting promoted in the league. Our targets will be similar for next year.
“We want to get into the quarter- finals of the championship and we want to win the Connacht Championship - those aims don’t change.
“For the league, we’ll be hoping to get out of Division 3. We know it’s going to be difficult though.”
This year’s campaign was made all the more difficult by the loss of several senior players.
Carew is hopeful that they can have a fully fit panel for the 2017 campaign.
“If we had got that bit of luck with players we would have had a great chance. We were unlucky losing Pat Hughes and Charlie Harrison during the Championship.
“We lost David Kelly and Ross Donovan beforehand, and we were without Adrian Marren, Mark Breheny, Eoin Flanagan and Daniel Maye for periods too. For next year we’ll hope for far fewer injuries,” he said.