Evans: we’d been through a lot of pain and had the hunger

AFTER the devastation of their loss 12 months ago, Tipperary boss John Evans was ecstatic at the final whistle last night in Austin Stack Park after securing the county’s first ever Munster U21 football crown.

Evans: we’d been through a lot of pain and had the hunger

“We’ve one guy up there John Coghlan and this is his fourth time playing an U21 final. You’ve to lose a few I suppose to win one. It came down to the closing stages of the second-half, and we were the team who’d been through a lot of pain and had the hunger. So we weren’t going to lie down.

“I thought we played clever as we moved Aldo Matassa to midfield in the second-half. We put Alan Moloney in for the first ten minutes of the second-half and then brought Aldo out there again. He got up and down the field, and Shane Egan did brilliantly with his points.

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