Dillon: We belong at top table
Not enough either in Clare or in Munster.
“We’ve always been told we’re punching above our weight,” said the student primary teacher, “but we believe we belong here now.
“We have a serious management team behind us. We’re going to be in here for the next few years. Hopefully more will come.”
And as for Munster, where they were beaten last year in their first foray into the province by Limerick champions Kilmallock, that too is a championship they’re now going to target.
“There was a five-minute spell where we left it slip last year, we worked hard to get it back but couldn’t turn over the lead they had on us. We’ll work hard again, Michael Browne [manager] will have us back training early in the week. We’ll look forward to that, take each game as it comes.”
It could have been all so different yesterday for Crusheen had Sixmilebridge captain Niall Gilligan’s late first half penalty been goaled.
“I didn’t go for goal,” Gillie explained, “I just felt that in the conditions I wouldn’t be able to control it right, took the point, made it three points all.
“In hindsight I suppose you could say I should have gone for a goal, but easy talk now – points were hard to come by anyway, and there was still plenty of time to play.
Cian reckoned: “It could have been a turning-point but lucky enough it went over the bar. Listen, no matter what happened today we weren’t going to let it go. We worked, we worked, we worked and the scores came, so happy enough.”
