Louth hurling manager Pat Clancy hasn't given up hope of making an impact in the NRC.

The Reds have been consigned to the back-door route in the third-tier championship following last weekend's defeat to Armagh but Clancy feels they can at least improve when they re-enter the Nicky Rackard Cup fray in just over a week's time:

"We didn't create enough chances and we didn't take enough of the ones we did create," he says in The Argus. "It comes from them playing at a higher level through the league.

"It's a higher level and they have that little more belief that they can beat Louth. We're trying to instil the belief that Louth can beat Armagh, but it wasn't to be.

"You would hope to be building a bit of belief as we go on. We get a second chance and you never know what might happen from here." Tweet

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