Derry hurling manager Johnny McGarvey gives his reaction to crucial Christy Ring Cup win against London in Owenbeg
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00:00 Johnny you were probably looking for a reaction after last week and you definitely got it
00:05 there. I definitely got it there. We expected what that was going to be, we expected it
00:10 to be really tough. Was it a 9? I think probably, didn't expect it to be a 9 point, we really
00:17 thought that would go right to the wire. But look the second goal made a wild difference
00:21 to it, just all of a sudden with a wee bit of breathing space. Fair enough with a few
00:25 waves, they had a lot of waves in the first half, maybe 12 anyway. But look it was exactly
00:30 what we thought it was going to be and absolutely delighted to come out of that one. You know
00:34 what was on the line, I think you could see both teams knew what was on the line coming
00:37 and did. And the first half I think they racked up a rate of 11 waves, there was nothing between
00:42 them. Now to be fair I think a lot of our pressure on their shooting was very very good,
00:47 you know, high intensity, like there was some massive head spin at one rate at the start
00:51 there on Tad, and that went on right to the end. But we expected that, like this is Championship
00:55 Holland, we were in last chance to loon there, as we will be again next week, whereas they've
01:00 still the north crack at it. So no, look, absolutely over the moon, delighted with the
01:05 one. How important was it just to get that late point at the end of the first half to
01:09 go in ahead? Aye, well I mean, it wasn't really discussed much at half time, you know the
01:15 fact that we were a point up at half time, it was just keep doing the basics well, keep
01:19 creating space for ourselves and try and take the right shooting options. I mean, probably
01:23 the second goal was probably the perfect example of that, like John and Corey both had chances
01:28 to tap that ball over the bar, and we felt down in Kildare, we had chances to pass them
01:32 balls as well to create, they're probably 70/30s, turn them into 95/5s for the goals,
01:39 and look, goals are important, we didn't score them the last day, we did today. You brought
01:44 Christie in as an attacking focal point, I thought he'd done excellent there, won a lot
01:48 of dirty ball. Very, very good, you know, I thought there was a lot of wrestling in
01:51 the first half, you know, referees maybe seeing it, it's two big men fighting for it, I don't
01:55 know, he ended up maybe holding two points or something there, it's very, very good,
01:58 you know, the ball sticks away and he makes good decisions most of the time, you know,
02:02 but like all over the pitch I thought we were super, like Mark Craig, heard of hamstrings
02:07 before half time, he said he could play on and he did, sat in there as a sweeper in the
02:11 second half, cleaned up ball all day, thought Richie was amazing, you know, I just thought
02:14 all over the pitch I thought we were so good. One game to go now, one game away from the
02:18 final and it's just one more push for it. Aye, well look, I mean, probably the way it's
02:23 shaping now, you know, you have to be careful that, you know, you don't get caught, you
02:27 know, they'll play Kildare in the last match, so I mean, what happens there dictates how
02:32 this thing goes as well. Our job now is to go and beat Sligo. Not sure how their result
02:37 went today but look, we have to win, you know, and to make sure score difference isn't a
02:41 factor, if we get into a position to win we have to try and push on. But look, we're in
02:46 a good place, we thought we'd have to win four out of five at least to get through to
02:51 the final, we've got three ones with Sligo away next Saturday and looking forward to
02:56 it all.
02:56 (laughing)