Corks Sports Sunday 06/09 Midleton Manager Padraig O'Shea post match v Bride Rovers

0:00Straight to the semi-final, but we never seemed to make it easy. A bit similar to the new season game that I'd shot at. An unbelievable resilience to our end. I mean, we were seven airpints up, looked to be in control, but out of a sudden we last thought the controller would again. Last momentum, kept conceding freeze, couldn't buy a free up-iron, and we just found it very hard to get a foothold back in the game, but in fairness, from the last six or eight minutes in fairness to Lads, the work rate was unbelievable. The kept our heads shorted a bit of maturity and hard work. And got the result, I suppose, clean the surprise that a two-point win was enough to get a straight to a semi-final, but that's just where the championship is. There's no game as they're given, they're sort of tight, so we're absolutely delighted. I said as the buzz was going into stop his time, you've been down this road, not once, but a few occasions in recent years, and you've always managed to poke the result out. That's a really good sign. It's a great sign, I'd love to come to a game where we win a comfortable six-airpints and not a drama. We were sweating up and down the sideline there of it, but like I said, it's just sheer resilience. We always say it at Lads, no matter what's going on,

1:01you can back yourselves because they just never give up. They did a something similar last year against the Glen, same against BlackRock last year. It's just, it's incredible, the new system game, not a good example of it, so again, like I said, I'd love to come up and just have an easy game, but you have to take your hat after the boys, they just never give up. A snapshot of the game, first and the first half, the goals with the key factor, I would say, Paul Connett and Midway, two Alex Crouch just before the break, but outstanding above all of that was the creation of the second goal by Tom DeLia. I don't think this championship season of our whole, I've ever seen a guy do so much to create a goal, talk us through. And it's unreal, and I'd be perfectly honest, that's why he's there, he has that ability. Tiger Leary is something similar in the other corner. They're just so green, you could say, they have no fear, they get the ball head down, and it's an unbelievable outlet for us to have a guy like that who's no fear of carrying the ball out. If it opens up from, and there's a gap there, he'll take it. And like you said, he created a great goal opportunity. We see it week and week out and training, we encourage him to do it, but not only that, he was brilliant defensively, I can't,

2:02himself taking care of our road, standing defensively. In the first half, care of our was unlucky, he went off injured, air towards the end, but the freedom again, similar to the bars again, tighted back, they were excellent, and they're almost the large padded in for our attack from full back as funny as it sounds. So, to the second half, you were two-sixths to seven up at the break. When they hit points up, and I once they looked to be cruising, but looked to be in complete control of the match almost, what happened, and is that a concern, the fact that suddenly you found just as a point behind it one stays? Yeah, I suppose, like everybody knows, Brady Rovers, they're never going to stop coming at you. We probably gave away a softball, a high ball down the middle, nobody ran to the break at the back. Something that we can talk about week and week out, probably maybe unlucky, but you know, we should have had that break over at the back, they got a goal, and Brady Rovers being Brady Rovers, they fed off that energy, as I said earlier, we couldn't seem to buy you free. They picked up a couple of sars free, so I've brought them even closer. But look, like I said, they dug a dose, they stuck out, it was a bit worrying there for a while when it was level, but look just a little bit to get a two-point minute now.

3:05So, happy days, great weekend, overall for the club, of course, the intermediaries again, yesterday looking at the bigger picture, you're into a semi-fineless ball, you'll always say it's the direct route, it's the shortest route, it needs a bit of management, and you know from your days as well, of course, you can have a long break, it can be a plus, or maybe a minus, so how have you got the balance there? I think after the game today, it's definitely a plus, with a couple of guys that were a bit under the weather, with sicknesses, a couple of injuries, rasterig, a mous-out, Kierrach is out now, it gives us another four weeks to get more minutes into all the ballonies, so I think it'll suit us. For us, no, the soil priority is getting our intermediates through their quarterfinals in two weeks time. If we're here in four weeks with two teams in a county semi-finals, we'll be in a really good position.