Congratulations to the entire team for securing promotion. It's great to be back in Division 1, where we should really still be. We were outstanding in that first half and really blew Cavan away. There were some big performances across the team. Greg McCabe, Conor Turbitt, Oisin Conaty, Rory Grugan and Andrew Murnin were excellent throughout. Ben Crealey played well in the first half but fell away in the second half. Barry McCambridge did a very good job of keeping Paddy Lynch quiet. Joe McElroy is quietly having an excellent season. He's always available, has great pace and works hard. It was very impressive to see that fire power coming off the bench. To think that Conor O'Neill and Ciaran Mackin were out injured. Jason Duffy and Jarly Óg Burns didn't get off the bench. Niall Grimley isn't making the bench. That really says a lot about our squad.
We've got better game by game throughout the league, resulting in today's big performance. We can travel to Cork now with no pressure and give some of our squad players more game time. Expect disruption to our play because of it. Even today, we looked less fluent when we took a bunch of players off. I'm not sure how this will go down, but looking at today's starting 15, I don't know who is getting dropped for Rian O'Neill to start. Some big decisions are going to be made over the coming weeks and some players aren't going to be happy.
