2024 SuperCupNI: County Down Senior manager John Bailie

John Bailie was pleased his Co Down Senior side made it three wins from three at this year's SuperCupNI.

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00:00John, many thanks for joining us. Three wins in three and should be in the semi-final now?

00:06Yeah, hopefully. It's been a really good week. We've had two straightforward games on Monday

00:13and Tuesday where we've won convincingly. But we knew tonight was going to be a much

00:18more difficult task. I think people watching, we were well worth our 3-0 lead at the half-time

00:24but we knew that they're a good side. When they get out of the galley, they're a good

00:28side and for 10-15 minutes they ripped us apart, to be fair to them. At 3-1, the game

00:33is probably in the balance to a degree. We were pleased to get over the line and get

00:37the fourth and fifth goal.

00:38Plenty of bookings and some tackles but your guys did well. They obviously keep their discipline?

00:43Yeah, look, it's Feistay. We've played the Mexican team, I would say, six or seven times

00:48in the last ten years and we've got to know that they're quality. Technically, they're

00:53better players than what we have here. So we have to try and balance that a wee bit.

00:57We ask our boys to get tight to people and make things difficult for them and sometimes

01:01when you ask those questions, they find it difficult. We tried to impose ourselves in

01:05the game. We did that really well in the first half and that gave us a good advantage in

01:08the second.

01:09Three wins in three and you'll be looking to keep that going now in the last couple

01:12of days?

01:13Absolutely. We've been lucky enough to get to the final as a senior team. I think it

01:19was to me 2018. I'm more unfortunate in the final so we'll try and replicate that at

01:26least and see where that goes. For our county, it's been a great week so far. Our juniors

01:31are in the semi-final as well. They've won two and drawn one so a big shout out to them.

01:36Hopefully, tomorrow will be a good day. The Super Cup can bring really big highs and really

01:41low lows so we won't get carried away. We'll enjoy this evening and we'll prepare for tomorrow.

01:46Finally, you were telling me off camera you're staying at the Lodge. How are you finding

01:49this day up on the north coast?

01:51It's brilliant. This is a really good week. Personally, I know from a personal point of

01:56view, I live down in Porto Vogue and over the last 10-15 years, the number of people

02:01coming from down our area up to here for the week to enjoy the atmosphere and enjoy the

02:05games, it's frightening. There's quite a large contingent coming up here now to watch the

02:09games which is good. This is a good draw, this place. Plenty to do, plenty to see but

02:14the Lodge is first class. The kids, they don't realise it but they're spoiled. Maybe that's

02:20why we've got a few results.

02:22Cheers, thank you.