Moore says Nire won’t lack motivation against Stradbally
The Nire and Stradbally, powerhouses of Waterford club football in recent years lock horns once more in the county senior final. But the Nire feel they have something to prove, having suffered their fair share of pain at the hands of Stradbally over the past decade. They remember the final defeats of 2002, 2004 and 2005, when Stradbally, remarkably, won three times after replays.
The Nire hit back in 2006 and went on to contest a Munster club final against Dr Crokes, giving a good account of themselves too at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. “We only really believed that we could take them at half-time,” current team manager JJ Moore recalls. 2006 was Moore’s first year as a selector and he remembers: “We couldn’t get back on level terms. We were missing Liam Lawlor too that day — he was a massive loss.”
