Derry hurling manager Johnny McGarvey reacts to victory over London
Derry senior hurling manager Johnny McGarvey reacts to his side's victory over London in Celtic Park on Sunday.
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00:00 Another win, is that safe to say Derry will be playing Division 2 Huron next year?
00:04 Oh definitely, I think mathematically that's, if we draw yesterday I think that would be it.
00:10 Bits of it we're happy enough with, bits of it we're probably not so happy with.
00:14 But here, 9.1 is 9.1.
00:17 You were talking about consistency, it was more in play, there was patches that just nearly allowed London back into the game.
00:23 I was talking about it at half time, the same thing, that patch in the second half against Huron and the wee patch at the start against Donegal,
00:31 it's just trying to put it all together over 60 minutes, or 70 minutes, it just hasn't happened yet.
00:37 But I mean we're getting there, for large spells there today we were very very good, we were totally dominant all over the pitch.
00:44 And then we just did that wee lull after maybe 20 minutes, I think we were 8 points up and maybe conceded a goal on a point or two points or something like that.
00:52 Look we've plenty to work on, we're just not where we want to be just yet.
00:57 I would say the response to the goals that London got, you probably said a lot about, every time you did get the shock of a goal you'd come back with 4, 5, 6 points yourselves.
01:04 Definitely the second one though, I think we scored 4 unanswered and the second goal was just a mess, it just never should happen.
01:11 But look, we responded well and we were probably never really in danger, once we went 6 or 7 up in the first half, even when they got the goal,
01:18 I think it came back to level or maybe a point or something, we never really looked in any great danger, we always looked for firepower to get us over the line.
01:26 So we're happy enough with that.
01:28 And you're on course to the league final, you've made no bones about it, that's what you're after.
01:31 I suppose the way the results have went there, another one will do it.
01:35 I think it's Whitlow away, Russ Coleman at home, that's where our aim's at now, we're now building towards the league final instead of the Christie ring.
01:43 You're talking about commitment, a wee word for the three boys played yesterday for the under 20s, came out again today and were excellent.
01:49 Really, really good the three of them, I thought Eamonn Duffin very unfortunate, the black card, Rurie was excellent, Free was excellent.
01:55 But they're good leaders, although they played a full match yesterday, they need to play in games like this, if they're going to come on and push on,
02:03 they need to play in tough games against good enough teams.
02:06 And look, their attitude's on the money, they do everything right, no hassle with them three cubs at all.
02:13 Every time they've played for us they've been brilliant, so look, happy days.
02:17 And you'll be looking to get those leg spots sorted next game?
02:19 Oh definitely, we're away to Whitlow now, I think the 20s will be playing on Saturday, so we probably won't do this again, they probably won't play against Whitlow that day.
02:28 But look, we'll see, there's two weeks to go, a couple of wee injuries there that are creeping into the squad, we'll see where everything's at.
02:35 Look, no, we're very happy where we're at just now.