Críost Rí bid to turn tables on Macroom

Twice this season they failed to De La Salle, but Coláiste Chríost Rí are aiming to finally get the better of their Macroom opponents in this afternoon’s Corn Uí Mhuirí semi-final in Cloughduv.

Coláiste Chríost Rí coach Aidan Moynihan doesn’t have a difficult task in talking up today’s opponents. “They’re an excellent team and we’ve come out the wrong side of it when we’ve played them twice, in the group stages of this competition and in the Simcox final. I’d hope we’d be competitive from the word go. Since Ephie (Fitzgerald), Deccie (Creedon) and myself got involved, our main policy is that players have the right attitude and put in the work.”

Coláiste Chríost Rí produced an excellent display in difficult conditions to overturn St Brendan’s (Killarney) in the quarter-final but Moynihan had concerns about their finish. “I wasn’t happy that we gave away 1-3 in the last 10 minutes and they had a few other goal chances as well. We were hanging on but given the conditions, I suppose they were always going to come back at us. We were just happy we played positively in the first-half.”