Carr wants to drive on and make an impact in Leinster
ROBBIE Carr insists the Blues will be taking nothing for granted against Carlow champions Eire Og on Sunday week.
After securing Louth title number 22, the champs host Carlow’s most successful club at the Gaelic Grounds on November 11th and Carr wants the Blues to put last year’s defeat to Rathnew firmly behind them.
‘We’ll give Leinster a good crack because I don’t think we did ourselves justice last year against Rathnew, we gave the kind of performance that we produced here today to be honest.
‘Louth lost to Carlow in the Championship and they’re a coming team, so we certainly won’t be taking anything for granted. We’ll enjoy tonight and a bit of tomorrow and get back at it on Thursday night now.’
As the enormity of two-in-arow started to sink in Carr was still pinching himself to check if the Blues did actually manage to wrestle Joe Ward back from Naomh Mairtin’s grasp in the dying seconds
‘It’s a bit surreal, I don’t think anyone can actually believe we won that game. For most of the match the Mairtin’s were probably the better team, but we just knuckled down and never gave up.
‘The lads that came off the bench made such a difference. I thought Ian Connor was nearly man-of-the-match and he only played about 15 minutes. We just kept going and just got there in the end.
‘I think over the year we probably deserved it. We probably were the best team. We didn’t perform to half what we were capable of today, so we’ll need to sit down and take stock for Leinster.’
The attacker didn’t actuallyv start the game, but was among five Blues’ changes, all of whom made a considerable impact when introduced and he paid tribute to strength in depth in the panel.
‘We’re so lucky with the amount of young lads coming through, but the old heads like Hugh McGinn steady the ship. The lads pushed on when we had the star games because we were missing five county players straight away. Lads get chances and trying to keep your jersey in that squad is so hard. There’s five or six lads there who didn’t get on who can make a difference too.’
Robbie now has the bragging rights in the Carr household as he equalled his father’s three senior medals, but Robiie and his brother Kevin now have a two-in-a-row.
‘No my dad doesn’t have that. I’ve the same number of medals as him now, he won three too, so hopefully it won’t end there and there’s a few more to come.
‘People always say a good team wins a championship and great teams put it back-to-back, but we’ll go for the third one now. That has to be the aim now and I think only two teams have ever done that.’