MARCUS CAVAROLI

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who manages the team jointly with Danny Gartland, claimed: ‘I think it’s small-club syndrome going on here.

‘Nothing is over the line [in terms of silverware], but things have been too quiet [in regard to news of Newfoundwell players on squad selections] and I don’t recall seeing anyone in FAI jackets at our matches.

‘I don’t know how these squads are picked, but there has to be a scouting system and I’m thinking about Stephen Murphy and our keeper Ronan Brown who’s only 19.

‘We would have been up to Evergreen [in Kilkenny] who have two or three players on the Ireland panel, and I remember their centre-half from a few years ago and I know he’s not a patch on Stephen Murphy,

‘He is looking after himself and is in great conditions, he’s a good leader and has all the attributes to be playing at a higher level.

‘He has been outstanding and