 So Maxi, thanks for joining us again on Highland video sport as we look forward to the All-Ireland senior football championship which starts for you this weekend. Just thinking before we started the interview Maxi, is it a big one against Galway of course in the league? Is there anything at all you can take out of that match or is that one getting buried now at this stage and there's going to be a different challenge at the weekend? Yeah look it's completely buried for us anyway you know we were practically at full throttle that day and then Galway were very short and we seen the team that they sent out in the last Friday night against Kerry in the first round so you know the team bore very little resemblance to what we put a plate against so look you would have to think that they probably learned more about us than we would have learned about them on the day in the league match and I suppose they definitely have a lot more room for improvement than maybe we would have had so but look it's still a great social confidence for our guards and no one you know that they that they went down to Galway and you know played with their own backyard Tumen performed really well against them so I'd say look it's one of those things people can you know some people will say you're you're better in Galway's position having you know having your powder dry almost or you know others will say it's great for them all to have that confidence so look it's I suppose it's all personal opinion really. Yeah so Maxi you had a strong enough league campaign and you had a good performance as well in the Ulster Championship to book your place back in the final having missed the competition last year has that been good enough prep in your eyes for for the start of the All-Ireland series? Yeah look it was it was it was a very good run against Kevin because we had a we had a similarly slow start against Kevin that we had against Cork the previous week in the in the league semi-final which was very disappointing and something we I suppose we had a chance to sit down and talk about it wasn't a coincidence that the two games started in the same way so it was something we had to talk about and we had to maybe work on and training about how we do start the games and not even revisit your warm-up and your pre-match routine to see there's something in that that you can do better and sharpen up on and so I think we would have made a couple of changes from that regard but yeah look the the score against Kevin was very pleasing you know we think we scored 6-16 which is very pleasing with a lot of players getting on the scoreboard and kick some really good scores and look at the same time we're probably you know slightly disappointed we conceded 2-17 and again that was something that we probably went away and had a wee look at this last couple of weeks and seen if we could you know tighten up at the back but look it's a it's a big score to concede but it's also a big score to score so if you ask me would I rather score 6-16 and and have a high concession rate or score 10 or 12 points and be measured in the back I would probably go for the to the high scoring so and it's a look it was a very worthwhile run out it was the biggest disappointment is that the competition wasn't finished you know there was there was a window to play it out and I think that would have been you know made for a far better off the channel so now we have to sit and wait and you know and coincidentally if the ball bounces in such a way you could end up playing our mat and an all-hour and a quarter final and then two weeks later for the end of the final so you know nobody really likes that kind of a situation but look it is what it is you know yeah what about the squad being fully thought max ahead of this game because it's vitally important isn't that you get off the 1-1 start doesn't know you got two games there so it is but you want to go through those two matches in a one and manner don't you yeah very much so when you know we've went into good habit and that's something we've done a lot as I say by the court game you know we won every game we've played this year so far and that's that's something we haven't done in the previous three years of me time here um but uh look we have that with a with a we have a clean bill of health at the minute and a couple of e-niggles and we will train again now before before saturday and you know we just hope that everybody gets through but look it's it's it's a squad game nowadays and if ever there was a season that it's a depending on a squad you know the the covid thing has changed a lot of things for a lot of people in terms of how they're preparing the length of a preseason and you know you'll very rarely I think find a team anywhere now at the minute that gets to a game with a clean bill of health and has everybody so it's everybody's losing an odd player here and there so look we can't complain if we uh if we're the same but look at the minute we're hoping we'll have everybody do you have the strongest squad available to you in years ahead of the the start of the line in series maxi I do believe we have yeah um you know we probably have a younger squad than we've ever had um a few different average ages um and you know I think we have brought on some really good girls some really good characters that have kind of revitalized the other girls have kind of fresh living up you know the likes of Sean McFadden there from some units has been a breath of fresh air and you know and they've just you know Susie White I know she was in at the end of last year you know girls like that have been really really good about the place Rossium Rogers has grown with every game and you know just that bit of youthful exuberance has has definitely lifted uh has lifted the older girls you know you still are depending very heavily on the on the on the on the plus 30s we call them um you know your cairns and your knee higgardies and you know these girls are playing the football of their life to be fair to them um but I just think that the dynamic is is very good you know if I have said it before and I've said to the girls that you know we may not have the best 30 footballers and don't go but I feel we have the we have the the best squad that we could have you know with um being a talented footballer nowadays doesn't be enough you know it doesn't make you a good teammate it doesn't make your you know allow you to improve the squad that you're part of and I think maybe we were guilty of that in the past where we had maybe all the talented players but we that maybe just didn't tick enough of the other boxes and I think now we we we definitely are ticking more boxes than we've ever ticked before no that doesn't mean there's any correlation to success or translate to success in the field but there's a real feel good feel good factor about the group at a minute and I say that's you know born out the fact that we've only lost one game we played and we feel very sorry about that game that we did lose against court you know we felt it was a game that we definitely um behind us and we take full responsibility for losing that ourselves so um you know I don't think none of those has ever been as healthy a position where we're we feel we are right and truly knocking on the door and you know a match for anybody in the country where that'd be Dublin, Cork or whoever so um you know from that perspective yet I think the squad we have is very good and you know we we go into the the All-Ireland series you know full of confidence and belief based on what we've done not but in all the years where it may have been potential and reputation you know this year we have actually you know maybe we've you know we've walked the walk as opposed to talk to talk but look that all counts for nothing and the ball thrown in against Galway and Saturday but that's a it's a good way to depend on the game at the same time okay thanks for talking to us the best look against Galway thanks Austin thank you