Larry O'Gorman
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Not because of, you know,
Yeah, it was brilliant, to be quite honest.
A great atmosphere, I must say.
Wexford had a massive support, which was a big help.
We noticed this big time when you run out there and you have 30,000, 40,000 Wexford supporters screaming their head off.
We actually played with a smile on our face.
We enjoy it.
We knew we were a little bit up against the wall because of the success that Offaly had prior to that.
We knew we were coming up against some of the greatest hurlers, the greatest of the fields of Crowe Park that came from Offaly, you know, Brian Wheelhan, Michael Dylam, Dahi Regan, the Doolies, Kevin Keenan, I could name loads of them, John Troy.
They're wonderful hurlers.
They had more success in the bag in the previous years than we had.
We had no silverware, they had silverware.
So it was...
It was this thing that was going on inside our head.
Can we overturn them today?
And as I said, with the sports ecology that we had gone through, the build-up to the match, the atmosphere in the stadium and the way we hurled, I think, showed that we were capable of beating anyone on the day.
We really hurled well.
We were crisp.
We were sharp.
Our work rate was up.