CLARKE IN FIGHT FOR HIS PLACE.Byline: AHMER KHOKHAR MARTIN Clarke Martin was an outstanding Gaelic football talent. is in a race against time to regain his senior spot with the sharp end of the AFL AFL: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. season less than a month away. The Down man experienced Preliminary Final agony - the round before the Grand Final - in his opening season as an Australian Rules player in 2007 but with Collingwood in fourth place on the current league ladder, the Magpies are odds-on for a double chance to lift the greatest prize in Australian football for the first time in two decades. "I'm ready for the challenge of getting back into the senior side as we look to play long into September," Clarke said. "But I know it's going to be difficult for me to get back into a very good, in-form side." Clarke has been left out of the Collingwood side taking on fifth placed Adelaide Crows this weekend but there are another three matches of the home-and-away season remaining before September's finals kick off. "Collingwood is an amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. club,"Clarke added. "The coaches and players are helping me to improve." |
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