Early days for Kilkenny CBC boss after opening win in Leinster Schools
Kilkenny CBC enjoyed a 0-22 to 1-10 victory over St Kieran’s in the Corn Ui Dhuill competition
Without getting too excited, Kilkenny CBC manager Matthew Ruth was happy to see his side make a winning start to the Leinster Corn Ui Dhuill campaign when seeing off St Kieran’s last week.
“All the planning we do and then we conceded a goal in the first minute but maybe it came at the right time as it gave us plenty of time to recover and we managed to find our groove as a result“.
“We were delighted with the second half in particular as we’d several chances in the first half with the wind and still went in four up“.
“We managed to keep the scoreboard ticking over which was important as it helped keep Kieran’s at bay“.
The victory was a repeat of a group stage success during last year's campaign for CBC but with another game with Good Counsel to come before Christmas, there is still plenty of hurling to be done.
“It’s a great sign to come and get a win but it’s still very early days in the year as ourselves and Kieran’s haven’t much done as of yet.
“There was minor finals on last week, there’s Under 21 on aswell and there’s also trials for the Kilkenny Under 20’s so there is a lot going on so we don’t have much contact time with them“.
“We won’t read too much into it but we are happy with the two points anyway“, the manager added.
Ruth himself is also involved with the James Stephens management so he knows only too well what this time of the year can be like so he’s happy with an early win.
“There’s always a lot of moving parts at this stage of the year and you can see it with the Fitzgibbon Cup, it’s similar there too as the best players are playing for all the teams really“.
“We’ve a lad involved with Conahy in the Leinster campaign so we do our best to keep the lads fresh and not to be flogging them.
“When you win today it makes it a bit less stressful so we are happy where we stand“.