Waterford ladies footballers make the trip to Co. Wicklow this afternoon for their All-Senior Championship opener against four in a row chasing, Dublin
When these sides met in the 2019 Championship in Portlaoise, Dublin enjoyed a 5-15 to 2-6 victory. Â
The Sky Blues, chasing a fourth successive Senior crown, needed the help of a freakish Sinead Aherne goal to get past Donegal in last weekend’s opening fixture, but they have a tough hour under their belts now. Â
Waterford, in contrast, are coming in cold for their first Championship outing of the season, and they couldn’t have asked for a tougher start. Â
A win for Dublin would see them through to the semi-finals, and that would result in a dead rubber clash for Waterford and Donegal in Round 3. Â
Dublin boss Mick Bohan is resting All Stars Sinead Goldrick and Siobhan McGrath, the 2019 TG4 Senior Players’ Player of the Year, with Orlagh Nolan and Caoimhe O’Connor starting. Â
For Waterford, inter-county life without Michelle Ryan, now a TG4 analyst after almost two decades in the county shirt, begins with a daunting assignment but there’s still plenty of big-game experience in the Déise ranks. Â
Team News
Waterford: R Landers; M Dunford, R Casey, R Dunphy; A Mullaney, K McGrath (capt.), M Wall; E Murray, L Devine; C Fennell, K Murray, A Murray; A Wall, M.K. Curran, R Tobin. Â
Dublin: C Trant; M Byrne, N Collins, O Nolan; A Kane, L Caffrey, L Magee; J Dunne, N McEvoy; N Healy, L Davey, C Rowe; S McCaffrey, S Aherne (capt.), C O’Connor. Â
The match will be live on LGFA Facebook http://bit.ly/2OvUJ2D and WLR will have live updates with Gavin Whelan throughout the afternoon.
by Jackie Cahill for the LGFA
