Important games for county sides for different reasons

TWO major games down for decision this weekend for the Wicklow Senior footballers and hurlers in their respective league campaigns with the result of significant importance in one while the performance is key in the other.

Davy Burke’s footballers are off to Ruislip to face London as they look to get back to winning ways after the disappointing defeat to high-flying Limerick in Rathkeale last weekend.

Eamonn Scallan and his Senior hurlers are off to Tullamore to do battle with the men of Offaly in a game that is more about seeing how the Garden Countyside acquit themselves against the Faithful side rather than about the result with Wicklow safe in the NHL Division 2A after their win over Mayo.

Davy Burke says that his side can’t afford to look past the job at hand now with their promotion hopes very much hanging by a thread.

‘We can’t afford to look anywhere else than every day from here on out.

‘We had a couple of decent wins in Aughrim and I think that people got a bit excited. You turn up to work every day, and you’ll compete; if you don’t turn up to work, then you won’t compete. It is as simple as that.

‘We’ll worry about London now. The minute we start worrying about Antrim, we’re gone,’ he said.

Wicklow Senior hurling selector Tom Darcy said that while they were disappointed with the defeat to Kerry in Arklow their attentions were now turned to facing Offaly in Tullamore and that it was all about the performance.

‘‘Offaly will want to beat us, they have to beat us,’ said Tom Darcy in the days following the disappointing defeat to Kerry in Pearse’s Park in Arklow,’ said.

‘The result doesn’t matter for us. The performance is what matters now,’ he added.

London v Wicklow gets underway at 1pm on Saturday while the hurlers line out at 12.30 on Sunday.