Walsh eyes Moscow medal rush

HEAD coach Billy Walsh is convinced he has the talent to better the three-medal haul from Liverpool when he takes his team to the European Championships in Moscow next June.

With some members stranded by the bad weather, he still had most of the High Performance squad back in training at South Circular Road yesterday while, back at their clubs, others were in training for the National Championships.

“We had been pushing to have the championships held in January but unfortunately they run on to March 5,” he said. “We tried to have them earlier because then we would have had a good block of training time before the Europeans. Holding the finals on March 5 means that we will have just eight or nine weeks to get them ready. We will have two tournaments lined up while we had been hoping to get in 10 to 12 international contests before June 4 so we are a bit restricted now.”