Derry hurling manager Johnny McGarvey delighted as his team defeat Roscommon

Derry hurling manager Johnny McGarvey delighted as his team round off league fixture list with rout of Roscommon at Lavey

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00:00 Donny, you were looking at a reaction and you got a quite emphatic one there.

00:03 Aye, over the moon there Michael, played really, really well.

00:06 Oh, happy.

00:06 I mean you're...

00:07 For a change.

00:08 You were looking, your target was a League Final, you got that way game in the spare,

00:13 now you've got home advantage and all rubber stamped so that's a good way to go into

00:17 Christy Rinkham.

00:17 Aye, you know, we probably didn't start overly well today, just took us a wee bit of pain

00:21 just to get up to probably the pace of the game, maybe a wee bit, you know, had a few ways maybe,

00:26 the same sort of thing that we done last week but I mean once we got Muttern, I thought

00:30 we were very, very good all over the pitch, from our goalkeeper right up, I thought all

00:34 our subs that came on there, you know, that's everybody on our panel there has played now

00:37 in the league, very, very important for us.

00:39 No point having them men if they're not going to play like so, duh, over the moon with that,

00:43 really, really happy with that.

00:44 You probably put that slow start down to a few of the changes, just taking a wee while

00:47 to get up to speed there.

00:48 Aye, you know, I mean that's just Holland, you know, Roscommon came out there, you know,

00:52 they were fighting for their lives, trying to survive, you know, and probably, maybe

00:57 we were more intense maybe at the start than what we were, I think it's more that than

01:03 the changes, you know, and you just find that, you just have to try and get yourself into

01:06 the game, you know, even when there was five down, we probably had more shots than what

01:09 they had and we snatched it a few and stuff like that but I mean overall, I think we scored

01:14 what, 2-31, couldn't have a file of complaints.

01:17 No, and I mean, the league final now, how important, I know you're looking one eye

01:22 on the Christie ring, but how important is it to go into the Christie ring as league

01:25 champions, yeah?

01:26 I think in the overall context of it, it's not really that important.

01:31 We want to win the league final, we made it very clear once we started the league well,

01:35 like that was our intention, to get promoted, win the league final, go and play in the Christie

01:38 ring, like in terms of the Christie ring, it's not really that important but full length,

01:44 we are 100% all out now to win the league final.

01:46 And it says a lot that you could make those changes and the boys still produced that level

01:49 of performance for you because Ross Gowan did put it up to us for 10-15 minutes.

01:52 Aye, and I mean, there's a talk there about the guys on our panel, I mean we'll have boys

01:57 there who are good and didn't play today, and rightly so, but we have a panel and we

02:02 know we have a panel of 30 players who all can play at this level, you know, and none

02:06 of our subs lucked out of place today, absolutely delighted with them.

02:09 Nice headache for you to have going on.

02:11 Aye, I'm definitely going to have some issues now in a couple of weeks time.