 All right, Tom, thanks very much for joining us in studio today and congratulations on your Susan Kublin I just begin by asking you how much of a boost was it to win against uj the tournament favorites in the opening rounds? Yeah, I suppose It was absolutely huge because like while we know ourselves that we're kind of a Capable bunch, but I'm I think from everyone looking in we were written off When the draw was made initially like there was kind of oozing as in Cropark when GCU came out and then Jordan's time And you know, it's kind of it's what you want is the big clashes So we went around went about kind of when I suppose in the hard win You know, it was great to like the northern teams while they had a couple of big names. Well, Jordan sound particular, but I am Yeah, I suppose like our group kind of while lads are saying like this You wouldn't recognize too many names, but a lot of them are main players for their for their Like division two or division three teams while Jordan sound would have had the few ulcers So kind of like while everyone blows up Jordan sound like DC we were strong enough Absolutely, and did that put some sort of a pressure sort of expectation on you if you knock out the favorites Are you guys install the favorites or did you guys carry on take it one game at a time? Yeah, no, I don't I think I generally I don't know that the Irish people nature just we kind of We like being underdog and stuff. So we never really like Like we wouldn't be an overly cocky punch at all. It's just we kind of Got all good friends and have laughed together and go out together and and it kind of like we just Took one game at a time. I think Mary's we played Mary's in them the league and the league finals So we we knew that they were an organized group and had something good going as well So we couldn't really under under underestimate them I suppose, you know So we knew that on top like Jordan's town Well, they the beat me as Mary's were really the organized group and kind of similar to ourselves going quite About the reason so suppose there was no real way to be reason to be hyping ourselves up when we knew Something was that it was like absolutely and you mentioned Mary's there and you mentioned you Joe as well Did it affect the performance at all? Considering that he's had to play away from home a lot of the time and then the semi-final and the final Way down in coke as well. Did that impact on the performance or I don't I'd say it's sometimes It's just nice for Joe you kind of you get your stuff very the night before all head off in the bus And you're sure you're having the crack. Well having the crack on the way back probably that's where we got to know each other So well like definitely after the leaf on But yeah, like you kind of get into your routines there with that and I suppose there's no pressure There well, there's less pressure going up to a place like Mary's where you're playing in a small tight pitch or Jordan's town With all their crowd whereas when you're home in DC You probably have that added expectation or weight on yourself just to perform and force things But yet when you're going up there just kind of a weight off your shoulders Whatever happens happens, you know, there's more Absolutely, what do you reckon was the biggest difference as well as between this year and last year's Sugarsen team was it a kind of a changing style of play training? Was the players were different or what do you think was the turning factor that Say there was there was a few things definitely just I suppose you can look at injuries as well like last year We kind of had a disjointed kind of build up towards the UCD game and like it kind of affected us as a result Definitely the pitching we like they got the 3g pitching Claire's or the Astro and Claire's and they got the floodlights So that meant we were able to train down there the whole time And you know like say you have second years most second years don't have cares in college So that meant if the year before if we were training down in like Vincent's or somewhere off in Valley Munch You know you were like Lazar having to get on to guys who they didn't know for lifts So that was kind of that led to like a decreased number So when it's in Claire's everyone can just bolt down and you've massive numbers of training so that like in Towards the end of the year we ended up having an intermediate squad and senior squad But everyone came to the weekend because there was no like everyone was training So you couldn't really pick or distinguish between who was senior and intermediate like everyone had committed like so And the quality of the team that was there the likes of Anna Smith Donnie Smith, the Ed Conor McGrenner in there as well They were kind of perceived as the leaders or the standout players each in every game Who would you have considered where the leaders in that squad do you think there was any standout players? I actually couldn't like you like well the word obviously there were standout players would end and guys that kicked the scores and stuff But it like you look closer to goal Then like you could you pick one out of the full back line that stood above the rest You couldn't really like everybody over the four games and even the league like performed very well And I think to bring it back closer like people wouldn't have known other guys names Like I mentioned Connor McNally was a big lad who never missed a training session like was on probably the players player Do you know got on with everyone like always trained kept a smile on his face? But didn't get a run in the Segerson until the last five minutes But it was guys like him who stuck stuck with it for the year and didn't just drop off by the way side You know that kind of really made the team what it was Whereas like fair enough guys can kick the big scores and they get noticed but I think it was those kind of guys like Connor and Sign McCoy ended up having a massive role in other Edwin Murray and like there's too many last name But you know guys that rode in that weren't getting games that really were kind of the making of the team Absolutely, and how important was the league in the run up to the Segerson? Yeah, definitely You compare that to the year before and we definitely didn't have as good a campaign like we had We were chopping and changing with teams what we kind of when we got our couple of wins I think we'd have one or two home games in the league at the start and that kind of helped us just Get I'm settled and stuff. So definitely kind of at that stage We knew we had a team that was if we had it together after the league that we were capable of getting Giving it a goal like you know, so I'm definitely kind of gave us a bit of confidence That we could give it a crack over the last couple of years Especially this year the CRC the budget for the men's guy team was 13% They pocketed 35,000 just for the men's GA alone and it was 20 GA was 28% of the whole budget Last year long as well. Do you think a big win like this was really important considering the amount of money That was pumped into it compared to two years ago It was probably about 10 or 13 grand elbow all in all. It's a huge amount of money Do you think it deserved the winner? I'd say definitely you don't like you don't really realize when you're playing like the amount of Stuff that goes in behind the scenes and in fairness We do like we get fed after training and stuff and then you've like gears subsidized and you're like even the Weekends away, I can only imagine that the cops run up hugely on that, but yeah, I suppose it's hard just if I Put in such investment into something like that when I'm when like there's such fun school in there And you're not getting the results But I'm I'd hope I probably like to see more probably integration between the The GA society and probably the rest the other societies and you know even even like there's a lot of you see American students or Chinese students if you got like if there was to be kind of open days where like you could bring them in and show off the culture of Ireland and bring the GA into that that that's probably the GA society Contribute to the college more in terms of that just to kind of give like make more approachable to everyone That's probably one way I could see that they could improve but I'm terms of funding and stuff I like it like there is such cost involvement on the team and like Well, it like would players like without meals of a train it is hard because like you could be traveling home like you know guys are Expected to like they'd be traveling home after training in the morning sessioner and joy like you're you're not getting Your meal and then or whatever job so it is kind of there's a lot of things small things that and like well They're not big But they do cost like nice, but yeah, so I suppose it is the fun. I would say is important in it for us Yeah, absolutely and then finding time Do you reckon TCU is a football and stronghold once again after that one? I think so. Yeah, like Looking at the team that's like I wouldn't say there's too many lads bear Like there's a couple of guys graduating like myself and kind of normal graders to level but and there's definitely another Decent team there next year, but again, do you know like things can happen and injuries and guys can go on placement and stuff But as of as of now, you'd say there's no reason why do you couldn't kind of build a kind of continuous Crack having a good crack every year at the second. Yes, so Long may last in a long friend. Thanks very much. Thanks. Well, cheers