After a break of five weeks Waterford Ladies Football team play their
second match in the round robin series of games when they take on Kerry on
Saturday next 25th June at a venue and time to be decided. Both teams have each
played one game against All Ireland champions Cork with contrasting results,
the Déise falling short on a six point margin 1-10 to 0-7 in Fermoy while the
Kingdom overcame Cork in Macroom on Friday night last in Macroom on the
score-line Kerry 2-14 Cork 2-9.
Waterford will have learned hugely from their opening senior
championship game their first in eight years and indeed put it up to Cork for
long periods of the match. Kerry have huge experience in the senior
championship and while they have been living in the shadow of Cork in the All
Ireland stakes for the past ten years they have beaten the Cork girls on a
number of occasions in the Munster championship and indeed are the reigning
Munster Senior champions.
Kerry have a very strong defence, powered by All Star and Team of the
League full back Aislinn Desmond. Bernie Breen and Louise Scanlon provide a
very strong midfield pairing and up front Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh and Amanda
Brosnan will need close attention.
Waterford are not without their stars players also, five members of the
team made the team of the league: Mairéad, Aileen and Linda Wall, Gráinne
Kenneally and Maria Delahunty. Katie Hannon is cool and calm in the goals and
Michelle and Karen Mc Grath and others will work tirelessly to ensure that
Kerry get nothing soft. It promises to be an intriguing game of football and
while Kerry will be favourites to take the spoils, Waterford have the spirit
and know how to claim victory. Fixture details are not to hand as of yet but
they will be broadcast on WLRFM and on the Waterford Ladies Football Twitter
and Facebook pages as soon as they become available.
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