Corks Sports Sunday 06/09 St Catherines selector Brian Sheehan post match v Tracton

0:00I am delighted to get through Fimber. We actually weren't guaranteed qualification. There was a scenario where we could have went out to the championship so delighted to get across the lane. It gives us six points and best another result. We got through to the semi-finals so it gives us a four weeks break which we're delighted with. Yeah and from what I've heard the Dermakid group change significantly with the last point and tied over and over and over and through to the two quarters with the point over. Sorry with the point over. We don't want Chakton. If that ball drops short and windward, Chakton will go through. That shows the way he agrees with the competition. I suppose the dynamics of the river which makes for Jam are the way. It does and look we looked at it this morning like we'd four points in the group with a good chance to qualifying but if we lost by more than three or four points today we'd a chance with different results than we could go to the championship today. So look we're very focused coming up here. We knew we had to win the game. We knew Chakton to be an extremely tough challenge and look at it. It ended up being that way and we really had to knock it down and grind it out there at the end. It wasn't easy to get across the line. Look we just pulled it through by two points. So we're delighted to be true to a semi final.

1:00Yeah, Chakton had a bit of a vomiting ball in that way to affect him. Would you have to give him credit to keep plugging away? Yeah you have to give him credit. We were a little bit disappointed to have time in the context of a lot of our wades but we knew we were holding well. We knew we were holding well and playing quite well. Would we fare to Chakton? Look we've seen Chakton over the years and we've seen him this year. They're a very very tough team. They kept plugging away. They came back within the point of and look it could have indeed arrived at the end. It could have indeed arrived at the end. But look I think it's great to get across the line. It's great not to have a four week break but we certainly have lots of work to do on different aspects so we'll knock it down and we'll be back for the semi final. You mentioned the first half tell you wades and some of them. There's no thing as a good way but you must be in the spine with that. I was disappointing but look I walked the field beforehand and there was a deceptive brief breeze going across the field. If you look at the wades a lot with wade at the one side and actually Chakton had wades at the same side in the second half. So to be fair to our boys it wasn't easy shooting conditions. The fact that we're making

2:01the scoring opportunities is hugely positive. We didn't score them today but we got across the line but look the fact that we're making the opportunities they'll come someday and hopefully they'll get us across the line when we need to. We've been very competitive in this championship where a long number of years a lot of experience and new young guys in so that you know getting the object obviously is to get all the group but going to the semi final you said makes it that pretty easy. I think it does. I think it does get into the semi final because look we're a jewel club as you know we have a big football junior football a football game next next Friday night so all these lads have a six day turn around to a football game and that's do our job as well. We'll put us through to the next stage. There's a lot of luck having the having the four week break giving us a little bit of time to focus on the football is positive and yeah look we've a lot of experience in the camp. Some of the older guys there you'll see pulled us through today but we brought true four or five minors. I think if you look with the team we had at the end there was probably six or seven of them where where minors over the last two to three years so we're trying to bring the youth through as well and in terms of some of the team. And the other important

3:04aspect of winning it extends your season you know it no one wants to finish in nearly September it keeps you going your Kamogi team are still going well so there's a bit of a buzz around the place. Yeah look our Kamogi team got across the line last night similar circumstances got across the line by two points and qualified as well. We've a junior big game in the morning this is some of the leds here that were on the line will be playing junior big against castlines in the morning and we need to get a win there as well football we're still in the championship our minors had a great win and wins the night over belly giblin and they are playing a final in two weeks time so it's all it's all positive from a club perspective and look our objective at the start of the year was to be hurling in October that's where the that's where the business into the championship is and that's where the semifinal takes.