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Canovee co-captain Evan Dodd with young supporters after beating Cobh. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\nIn reaching the McCarthy Insurance Group Premier JFC final, Canovee had not allowed a goal and the most conceded in any of their four games had been ten points.<\/p>\n
Maintaining that pattern against a Cobh side that had scored 3-21 in their semi-final win over St Nicholas would go a long way towards claiming the title and so it proved, to the delight of manager Kieran Cronin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI suppose it doesn’t matter what way you get over the line, we got over by a point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn’t a game for the purists, that was a tricky wind for both teams, so it definitely brought down our shooting efficiency. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to work very, very hard for scores but at the end of the day our defence, our structure, to keep another team to nine points, that has been excellent all year and I think when push came to shove, yeah, we kept them out when the need was greatest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having played against the stiff breeze in the first half, Canovee only trailed by one point, 0-6 to 0-5. It was a situation that Cronin was satisfied with, albeit with the knowledge that improvement would needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou would be happy with the way the game was panning out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a breeze to play with, but I certainly wasn’t happy with maybe the energy and the workrate and the chemistry up front. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe certainly had to talk about that, the shot-selection and things like that. But look, a day like today, the pressure that’s on these lads to get over the line, you’re trying as much to take all the pressure away from them.”<\/p>\n
Canovee co-captain Evan Dodd with young supporters after beating Cobh. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n
\u201cCobh threw everything at it, as I thought they would. I said to the boys in the dressing room, I said, look, don’t be surprised if this game is 10-8 or a 9-8, with the wind and the conditions and the pressure and look, that’s the way it transpired. <\/p>\n
\u201cThank God we got over the line.\u201d <\/p>\n
That they managed that surely owed something to heavenly guidance. Last week, Rita O\u2019Brien, the former principal of Canovee NS, passed away \u2013 many of the panel attended the school and Rita\u2019s son Johnny had been manager immediately before Cronin, who paid tribute.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was at the funeral during the week, a tough week for the O’Brien family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cRita O’Brien was the principal of the school and schooled these lads and definitely an influence on a lot of young lads that came through that school.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer son Johnny, who I coached a few years ago when I was with Canovee and he in turn took over the management, he did great work with his management team over a good few years and won the junior A, so our thoughts are with the O’Brien family.\u201d<\/p>\n
And of course Canovee’s season will continue into an AIB Munster Club JFC campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ll have to enjoy tonight first anyway and then look at that after!\u201d Cronin laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly, you get over the line, you’d hope that you can throw off the shackles a bit into a Munster campaign and we’ll certainly be turning our attention to that, because there is a road ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ll be knuckling down after a day or two of celebrating this because a lot of work and a lot of energy and a lot of time goes into this.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople mightn’t realise it, wives and girlfriends and family and kids being disrupted all over the place but we\u2019ll certainly enjoy this one tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In reaching the McCarthy Insurance Group Premier JFC final, Canovee had not allowed a goal and the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4365,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-666497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaelic-football","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}