*Truagh/Clonlara coach Ryan Morris. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill.
TRUAGH/CLONLARA coach Ryan Morris will be postponing his honeymoon to prepare for their All-Ireland senior club camogie final.
“Myself and my wife are supposed to go on our honeymoon on the weekend of the All-Ireland final, that’s not happening now anyway! New York will always be there, All-Ireland finals don’t come along too often” he marked.
Morris who has been coach of the side for four years commented, “these girls don’t know where to stop, There was a good bit of wind there today, we went in at half time and the girls were totally relaxed, there was no panic whatsoever in the dressing room”.
“We got a couple of key messages to the girls and they responded really well,. We came our flying. The first message was to get the first score and put Vincents on the back foot and take it from there. We know what we are capable of and there are no words to stress that”, he continued.
Understandably Ryan was pleased with his team’s response to the half time talk “St.Vincents goalie pulled off a hell of a save. We felt we could have been more ahead in the third quarter.. We scored the first three points We always knew Vincents were gong to come back, they hadn’t scored n the first ten minutes. They have some great players, Ashlig Maher really stood up and they put us under pressure but we never panicked and the players coming off the bench made a big conribution”, he said.
Continuing the team mentor said “it’s not just the team that starts, it’s the team that is going to finish for us and we have done that a lot this season. We have taking players off and brought them back on, (Marren)is one of those, we knew if we could take her off, have a chat and bring her back on, she is one of the finishers for us. Niamh Ryan and Leah Hawes also made valuble contributions when introduced, their tackles, their efforts were a vital part of this win”.
Commenting on qualifying for the all-Ireland final he said “it’s nice to break that barrier for Clare. Scariff/Ogonnelloe were the trend setters for us, we wanted to get to where they were, they had Munster success and we hadn’t so we wanted to achieve that and now we hope we can set the trend for Claree. We are the first from Clare club to get to the All-Ireland final but we won’t be the last, there are some great teams in Clare, It’s a very young camogie county, there is a lot of potential there”.
Concluding he said this is great for a small club in Clonlara, we are fighting for an all-Ireland and I can’t wait. We haven’t done much since we won he county final, just fine tuning, getting the bodies right, the matches have been hard in the last month. The group love being around each other, there is a great vibe when we meet up, no one is sick of coming to training. We look forward to a bit of analysis and see what we are coming up against”.
