Derry hurling manager Johnny McGarvey praises his players after victory over Tyrone

Derry hurling manager Johnny McGarvey praises his players after their Christy Ring Cup victory over Tyrone at Owenbeg on Saturday.

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00:00 Johnny, as far as performances go, that'll not get much better. Very impressive.

00:03 Very, very impressive. No, really happy with that. We felt probably over the last couple

00:08 of weeks that performance was in us. You know what, probably the weather dried up, pitch

00:13 was good, conditions were good. Maybe you look at it, last few weeks it's just Winter

00:18 Orlean. Conditions have been awful, but we really did, we thought that performance was

00:23 in it. We talked about it all week and there it was, it was there for us today.

00:27 Trone missing a few men, but you know, he's a gun in his favour, but you still have to

00:31 make that count and the start was blistering. Aye, look, as I say, done a lot of work this

00:36 week on starting well. We don't really bother ourselves too much with who the other team,

00:41 you know, we look at their team, we deal with whoever we have to deal with, but who they're

00:45 missing and who they're not, it doesn't really come into it for us.

00:47 Big, moving Rory inside as a target man, that seemed to work very well for you.

00:54 Went very well today, you know, just something that just felt, give him a wee change of scenery

00:59 in there, you know, maybe we weren't wanting enough clean ball for ourselves.

01:01 See, every ball went in, I think he either got it or we got something off it, you know,

01:07 no, I thought he was very, very good. Nice to have that option in the squad,

01:10 that's just showing now that he's at a level where you can move boys about.

01:12 Aye, well that's it, you know, look, I thought our forwards were brilliant, all of them,

01:16 you know, felt two weeks ago out here in the league final, or three weeks ago,

01:20 thought we didn't work hard enough, you know, not that they're good players, just didn't feel

01:25 we worked hard enough and the last two games either worked great or it's been through the roof,

01:28 I thought our six forwards were immense today. And two wins from two, but now a big one next week.

01:33 The acid test, you know, kill their favourite, so that's fair enough, no problem, we're going

01:39 to go there, all guns blazing next week and if they're going to win, they'll have to beat us.