He moon and back’
frees that we tried to drop short, if we had popped them over the bar, who knows,’ he said.
The Wicklow hurling netminder couldn’t speak highly enough of his charges who he says have the potential to win an All-Ireland title before they leave Coláiste Bhríde.
‘They’re an incredible bunch. There’s a thing going around the school at the moment, when they go, we’re under pressure. As I said to them there, I’d bring them to the moon and back.
‘They’re very easy to work with, no matter what you ask them to do, them and they’re backed by an incredible bunch of parents. I’d never have a bad word to say about them.
‘They’re very easy to work with, they’re just a great group in general from 1 to 33.
‘That’s what they have in abundance (bravery). That’s what we hang our hat on, the refusal to stop.
‘Any other team there would have went out in the second half and went through the motions.
‘And, as I said to them, if it was any other team, we wouldn’t have won the semi-final, we wouldn’t have come out of that fiasco with
Gorey. We wouldn’t be here if it was any other team. It’s just that willingness to not stop that they have that has them here,’ he said.
In terms of the venue, Fitzgerald said that from a spectator’s point of view it wasn’t ideal and that safety wise it was also lacking considerably.
‘Slightly (disrespectful). I can see from the organisers point of the view with the bad weather to hold it on the Astro but from a spectator’s point of view it wasn’t ideal at all. Even ‘Sal’ (Sarah Doyle) getting the knock off the fence there. That wasn’t the difference in the end,’ he said. And any final words? ‘Just to thank the players, the parents, the school, we got huge support from the school.
‘This is the first time a team from the school has reached an All-Ireland final since 2008. They’ll be back.
‘I’ve told them in there, by the time they’re finished (in school) they will win an All-Ireland.
‘They’re certainly good enough, they have the attitude, they have everything. We just need to get it together on the day,’ he said.