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“It’s fantastic to have had it at Croke Park and hats off to the Camogie Association for that”
Published 11:45 2 Apr 2019 BST
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Published 11:45 2 Apr 2019 BST
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“I think Galway are better at that game” said Murray. “Maybe last year we were guilty as a management of playing defensively and trying to get that sound before we worked on our attack.https://twitter.com/GAA__JOE/status/1112754609381167105 “This year, the likes of Aoife Donohue, Niamh Kilkenny, Niamh Hanniffy, Ailish O’Reilly – we have forwards that can hurt teams and we want to play an attacking brand of Camogie. At times, when we were playing really well, it looked brilliant. “The four months we got with the girls last year was brilliant. Okay it wasn’t successful but we learned an awful lot about them and they learned an awful lot about us as well. We weren’t going in wondering about a panel. We knew who we wanted, we knew what we needed to do.
“Strength and conditioning was a big thing. We’re at that since November with Robbie Lane and that’s gone really, really good. We were back training early January pushing on for the League. We wanted to have a good League.”That fitness and power was very evident and it will be interesting to see if there is more to come throughout the Championship. Meanwhile, speaking to team captain Sarah Dervan, teammates Tara Kenny and Carrie Dolan, and Murray afterwards, it was clear what the message was at half time and that it was taken on board. Each one spoke about the expectation of a Kilkenny purple patch. In the past, Galway have folded in the face of such an onslaught. Dervan admitted that “we went back into our shell a bit” when Katie Power goaled in the final quarter of last year’s All-Ireland Semi-Final. The sides had been level until then but the Maroons quickly conceded the next three points and in a flash, the game was gone.
“We said at half time they’re going to get their purple patch and it’s what we do when they get their good patch that is going to be the difference” recalled Carrie Dolan of the interval cant. Kenny, Murray and Dervan repeated this text almost word for word.
“Carrie was brilliant, Sarah Healy in goals and Niamh Hanniffy is a real powerhouse of a woman. It was their first time playing in Croke Park but you wouldn’t know it by them. The older ones were nearly more nervous. “It’s fantastic to have had it at Croke Park and you have to take your hats off to the Camogie Association for that. You only get a handful of chances to play in Croke Park and you want to win every time you do.”
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