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Good afternoon, it is not just any old afternoon, it's the grand | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
occasion of local football show case, the after noon of the 2017 | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Tennants Irish Cup final. The sun's come out. The fans have come out. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Windsor Park or the new National Stadium, if you prefer, is all | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
buffed and polished and has rarely, if ever, looked better. We are ready | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
to rumble. Good afternoon everyone. Great to have you for company over | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
the next few hours. Equally great to be in the company of three legends. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
We will hear from the boys shortly. All you know much about the coveted | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
piece of silverware that is here. Ten Cup Finals between them as | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
managers. Marty Quinn looking sprightly, the the last man to | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
manage Coleraine to the cup. Seven cup wins in total. And Gary | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
Hamilton, less stress now, as player manager with Glenavon. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Gary delighted that you're here, David and Marty also. Last year's | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
winning manager. How difficult is it? Very difficult. I'm gutted I'm | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
not there again. It's a big occasion for players. This is the pinnacle | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
for a player. And the pinnacle for a manager. You're the last man to land | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Linfield a treble. They're going for it today. Added pressure or pressure | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
off on David Healy and the squad? Depends on your perspective. For | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
some people it will be can they do a double or treble, like Linfield | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
teams of the past? Or will there be those who are maybe a bit more sense | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
and say well, they've got the big one, the league trophy, anything | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
else Linfield achieve will be the icing on the cake. It depends what | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
pressure the Linfield players are feeling. But I think today will be a | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
fantastic day. You'll not need reminding, when he landed the | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
treble, you were on the receiving end in that Cup Final, a game which | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
probably you did dominate but lost. It can go that way in a Cup Final. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
If you don't take your chances you don't win cups. That was the case on | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
the day. We had several opportunities to increase the 1-0 | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
lead. As David said, he was delighted to go in 1-0 down and they | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
come out in the second half refreshed, motivated and they got a | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
quick equaliser. Another one shortly after it and went on to win the cup. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
That's the way it goes. Today, Coleraine will have - they have a | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
young side. They'll have no fear. They've been here before, done it, | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
they've won it. I have a feeling if they can match Linfield in the first | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
20 minutes, not to concede anything, they can get something out of the | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
game. But it's about taking your chance when's you're dominating. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
That day is very vivid in my memory. Remember talking to Brian McLaughlin | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
through the first half and we were so thankful to go in just 1-0 down. | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
Poise poll Pete, scores two goals and we won the cup. The teams | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
arrived a short time ago, all suitably suited and booted and 21st | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
century Cup Final fashion dictates. David Healy, we've hinted the the | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
big day for the big manager. Roy Carroll there. Going for his own | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
unique piece of history today. They are replete with household names, | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
not least Adam Mullan, the skipper -- Jamie Mulgrew, the skipper with | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
the game face on. There they come the man from the north coast. Oran | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
Kearney young, bright manager at helm. How big a day for Eoin | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
Bradley. Cup Final day last year with Glenavon. Michael O'Neill, the | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
international manager, not sure if there'll be a call up, but great to | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
see him here. Let's hear from the respective camps, David Healy landed | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
the league title last weekend and reminded the doubters that he had | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
delivered. Can they double up for the cup and what would it mean for | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
them to do so. COMMENTATOR: For the 52nd time | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Linfield are the champions. The players are enjoying every single | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
moment. I said from the start I firmly believed we were the better | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
team this year. Probably understand more now what this club means and to | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
see 2,000 people turn up on Saturday just to walk around the pitch for 45 | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
minutes, showed how much bringing the cup back, bringing the league | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
title back here meant to them. Some people doubted whether I had the | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
mentality to carry this job through. I want to be better. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
COMMENTATOR: A nice moment between Tommy Bresnan and David Healy. I | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
want to be a better coach. I want to be a better manager. I want to be a | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
better all-around person. Losing The Cup Final last year hurt. Probably | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
took me two or three months to get that out of my system. I know beaten | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
Dungannon in the semifinal, the players knew there was a gritty | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
determination. It was a tough game. COMMENTATOR: And that could be the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
winner. But we knew once we got through that day this was the chance | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
of redeeming themselves from last year. So I seen it in their eyes, in | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
their reaction after the game. There was no celebrating in the dressing | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
room. That wasn't out of disrespect for gun Gannon. That was out of | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
sheer acknowledgement that the players now had a chance to go and | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
win another Cup Final. COMMENTATOR: The deflection tested | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Carroll. What a world class bit of goal keeping. I've known Roy since | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
he was 18, 19. I knew what type of character he was. When I see | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
somebody at 39 with the enthusiasm that I see with Roy Carroll Carol, | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
it's remarkable that he wants to do. It doesn't surprise me he still has | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
the quality to do it. Some of his saves and performance that's year | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
are outstanding. Once he got in contact with me, I was going to sign | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
no matter what. I knew it was a big club over here. I like playing under | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
pressure. Every time you go on the pitch to play for Linfield, the | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
pressure is always there to win games. Still sometimes unreal | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
calling him the gaffer, you know what I mean. I'm a few years older | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
than him. He's done wonders here. At a club the size of Linfield, the | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
demands that come with that. I knew how demanding it would be. We're | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
league title winners. We're champions. If that doesn't release | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
the shackles off the players to go and play on Saturday, I'm not sure | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
what will. We will talk David Healy in a moment. But David first, Roy | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
Carroll, he's chasing this unique Irish Cup and FA Cup double. How | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
significant a signing was it? There's Ronaldo with him back in the | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
day at United. This is a lovely story because Sir Alex Ferguson said | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
to Roy prior to that game, if they went three up, he would come on. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
There's Roy celebrating. His contribution this year has been | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
absolutely enormous. He's a big character. Obviously, he's | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
experienced and his know how is there. His performances have been | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
superb. The little piece that we ran in there, we saw the save in the | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
semifinal. If dun beganan had scored they probably would have won the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
game. You see the save from young Paul Heatly, most significant. I | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
know when we were here this season with Ballymena, he turned a draw | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
into a win just by his performance. Chris Jones at the other end, he was | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
once his hero. More from Coleraine shortly. David Healy explicit about | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
the pressures of club management. Earlier this season, Oran Kearney | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
was also a manager under the spotlight. He has grown this current | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
crop organically and how he and they have turned things around. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
# We've come a long, long way together | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
# Through the hard times and the good... It means the world. A long | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
time coming I think. Our form in the league has been good over the last | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
couple of years. The Irish Cup, to be honest, has been good to me as a | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
player, but as a manager, up until this season, it's one that we've | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
struggled to get past fifth or sixth round. It's really gripped the town, | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
you know the flags are flying already, the length of bally castle | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
road. The fans have got behind it. It's a massive day and one that the | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
whole area is looking forward to. COMMENTATOR: There's Oran Kearney. I | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
think Irish Cup week in general, from my experience as a player, it's | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
a fantastic week and probably the best in your playing career. I think | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
it would take greater pleasure doing it as a manager. As a player you go | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
there quite selfish on the day and look after yourself and you tune | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
into your job and get the job done. Going there as a manager, you're | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
looking after so many different people and so many aspects of the | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
day, that I think as a manager, it will be far more pleasing. | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
COMMENTATOR: Oran Kearney the orchestrator. In all my time as a | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
player and a manager in the league and knowing of Coleraine, it's the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
most local club ever, that speaks volumes for the crowd, for the | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
atmosphere we have about the time. They're local players playing for | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
their local club, which gives it a real sense of identity and | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
community. COMMENTATOR: McCauley is there! They | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
have won it for Coleraine. I think when it's one all with ten or 15 | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
minutes to go, they're more likely to gig in and fight harder because | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
they have that sense of belonging and real identity with the club. It | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
is their home stadium. They've always played there. I believe The | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Cup Final of this magnitude should be played at the National Stadium. I | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
wouldn't want it played anywhere else, to be honest with you. | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
COMMENTATOR: The man on the right-hand side. It's in the net. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
I'd be more worried going there if it was a season ago, when maybe we | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
hadn't beaten Linfield in a couple of years. The big step this year, | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
for the young players in particular, are the manner of our performances | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
against Linfield and the crusaders this year. We have gone up a notch. | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
I don't need to tell the players that they're ready. I don't need to | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
tell them that we can go and do this because they know already, with what | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
we've produced this season, that there is that big performance there. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
It's only a matter of getting it out on Cup Final day. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Marty, he is a bright, young manager. Under pressure, but Oran | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Kearney, you have to give the club and the chairman credit, they backed | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
him. How big is today for them? It's a massive day. The Coleraine | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
chairman and his fellow directors need to take a lot of credit | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
actually, because the naves were out for Oran. It was common knowledge in | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
the league. The talk was Oran Kearney is next for the chop. That's | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
the way it was looking. He got himself together. He showed great | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
patience with the players who he'd been bringing along. They went on a | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
fantastic rub. They're -- run. They're in The Cup Final now. This | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
is part of the squad he's assembled here. These guys, tremendous for | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
him. A lot of managers buy time by saying they're going down the road | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
of youth. Coleraine have structured it over five or six years, due to | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
Oran Kearney, in connection with the school of excellence there. They | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
have the academy. They have the Harry Craig foundation. They are | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
pulling together. These are young, local lads, from around Derry | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
county, Antrim area. They're reaping the rewards. He has shown that | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
patience as have the board and the fans. Today I'm delighted for them | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
to be there and hopefully they can enjoy the day. There's a key thing | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
that he said, that was about identity. Young people from the | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
area, from the community who have a belief and a know how and want to | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
represent Coleraine. That's coming through in abundance. I have to echo | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
the team, they have stuck with Oran, and with stability and longevity you | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
get days like today. Let's have that right now in the studio, we're going | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
pitchside. He's with the man who found the net for Marty Quinn over a | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
decade ago. We're going to speak to Jodie in a | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
second. It's the 72nd time the Irish Cup final has been held here at | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
Windsor, the first since it was redeveloped and re-opened last | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
October. It's looking good today. You mention that we're going to be | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
talking to the man who scored the goal 2003 final for Coleraine, five | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
Cup Finals you played, in an occasion like this, it never really | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
loses that feeling of being a very special day. No, it's the biggest | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
day in local football. You want to be at Windsor Park in the first week | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
of May, because then you're in The Cup Final. We mention 2003, someone | :14:01. | :14:10. | |
nearly stole your thunder that day. Gareth McCauley, having a fantastic | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
career in the Premier League. I think the ball fell and he slotted | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
it home. He should have put us 1-0 up. Still the glory fell to you. | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
What do you remember of the goal? It was strufy, a corner. Gorman put in | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
a good ball. A header was cleared off the line. It come out to me, I | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
just volleyed it back in. Hit the post and the rest is history. We've | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
been talking to Marty Quinn up in the studio about the job that Oran | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
Kearney has done with this team. It's incredible the turn around that | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
he's managed to produce here. It is. He's generated a young side, enthuse | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
yafrtic you know, a lot of -- enthusiastic, you know, a lot of | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
legs in the side. After their legs and fitness will show, they can come | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
out winners tonight. Put it on the line, who is going to win? I'm going | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
to go for 2-1 Coleraine. I have to go with the local side. I think they | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
can do it. STUDIO: Good to see Jody Toland | :15:07. | :15:18. | |
looking well. The boys were salivating over that. This is | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
something else to whet the appetite. One from 40 years ago, 1977, | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
Coleraine taking on a hotly fancied Linfield. And certainly Beckett with | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
a haystack of hair was about to write a significant footnote in the | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
Bannsiders' history. Incredible memories. It is a day you | :15:40. | :15:53. | |
never forget. The players involved were -- will not forget it. It is a | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
day to look forward to and you cherish those memories. It is a | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
special occasion. It is a bonus, particularly stuck at the back as a | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
defender and you come up for a corner kick. People say the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
goalkeeper fumbled it, but I do not believe that. I had a bit of chalk | :16:17. | :16:33. | |
side on it as we say in the game. With all due respect. | :16:34. | :16:47. | |
We won 4- won convincingly. Among those who did not give you a chance, | :16:48. | :17:01. | |
Roy Coyle, he said there would be five goals in the game. I remember | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
it well. Before most games we went into the local cafe and get a big | :17:07. | :17:19. | |
Friday. -- big fry. I could see the newspaper headline, it will be five. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
He got it right. There were five but it was 4-1 to Coleraine. I think it | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
was Jennings, our great midfield player, reminding him about the | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
five. And I remember him saying you were right about the five, but you | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
got it the wrong way round. They work the medals and heroes of | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
yesteryear. Who will be the heroes of 2017? Harry, you have chosen to | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
highlight Eoin Bradley. He is a top guy, somebody who if you put your | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
faith and trust in him he is a big-game player. Used to playing in | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
front of big crowds. He relishes it and produces nine times out of ten | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
and last year, that ball was especially a tremendous ball, | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
putting us up 1-0 and in good stead to win. He has been a tremendous | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
player for us and he has scored important goals for them since | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
Christmas. If he had played from 18, 19, the attributes and strength he | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
had, and maybe more coaching, he definitely had all the attributes. | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
The power and strength and pace. Those players are always worth their | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
weight in gold. Marty, you could have chosen Moore of half a dozen | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
bit you choose Jamie Moore crew. Did I hear you say that Eoin Bradley was | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
hard to manage? Gary Hamilton saying that! I have the pleasure of working | :19:13. | :19:22. | |
with him in the past. Jamie Mulgrew has been outstanding for Linfield | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
but this year, he seems to have come to the fore with the experience and | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
confidence and leadership ability. Any time I look at Linfield now, he | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
is so important, getting on the ball, passing it well and using | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
every trick in the book will stop he thoroughly deserves the Player of | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
the Year award, the supporters have given. He is an outstanding player | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
for Linfield. He is 31, 32, he has a few seasons in him. The point you | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
make is good, he has come of age. He is the last of the group part of the | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
six doubles in seven years and Jamie for a long time was in the shadows | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
of people such as William Murphy, Oran Kearney. This year he has | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
grabbed it by the scruff of the neck. And with Stephen has been | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
under the radar. Jimmy has stepped up to the mark. A man who used to | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
grab it by the scruff of the neck is pitch side. | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
Also pitch side is the trophy. A man used to getting his hands on the | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
trophy is Peter Thompson. What about this for a record? Six finals, six | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
goals, six wins. You obviously enjoyed cup finals. Cup finals are | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
what it is all about. Winning the league, but come on cup final day | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
there is a special buzz. Last time you got both of the goals. What do | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
you remember? The first half was a struggle. 1-0 down and not playing | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
well. We were coming for a first double in a row, under pressure. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Coleraine were the better side. Got a bit of a run at half-time, coming | :21:30. | :21:39. | |
out and scoring two goals. Two from 25 yards for myself. It was great. I | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
was lucky enough to get the headlines that day but it was about | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
a team effort coming back from 1-0 down. | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Thanks for joining us. Back to you. Still looking like he could play. A | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
big day for the players and a massive day for the fans and match | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
official today. Keith Kenedy, a late replacement for Raymond | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
Hetherington. He is under scrutiny today. It is a big day for him. It | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
is unfair to put the referee in this situation when he has been a season | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
ticket holder. If he makes a mistake against Coleraine, that will be | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
brought up and he will be lambasted for that. You think the IFA have | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
made a mistake, putting him in? He is no longer a Linfield season | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
ticket holder, it was when he was a young man. But he has been referee | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
in the league, why not the Cup? It is a different day in my opinion. It | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
is leaving him to be hung dry if he makes a mistake against Coleraine. | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
If there were someone else playing in it, fair enough, but when it | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
becomes a day like this... I. You there. We will pick up at half-time. | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
In the meantime, alongside Chris Morgan, Mr Thomas Kane. | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
COMMENTATOR: It is the showpiece occasion every player and manager | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
wants to be involved in. A capacity crowd, over 12,000 packed inside | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Windsor Park, and that is what they are playing for. It is a big day for | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
the families with many players walking outside onto the pitch with | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
members of their family. The fans are enjoying themselves. Chris, cup | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
final day is special and day everybody wants to be part of. It is | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
special. When you start in January playing the first round the ultimate | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
goal is to get here and when you are here, it is only about winning. I | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
have unfortunately lost two finals, and they are horrendous occasions | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
when you lose. Whilst you have had the enjoyment of the build-up and | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
experience of the occasion, when you lose, it is as bad feeling you will | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
get football. Oran Kearney will be walking alongside his twins, | :24:31. | :24:46. | |
six-year-old Eva and Luca. And a big day for David Healy, having secured | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
the shield and a league title last week against Cliftonville in | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
dramatic fashion. Everyone is waiting for the go-ahead. We are set | :24:57. | :25:09. | |
for the Irish Cup final of 2017. Listen to the roar of the fans. | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
These few seconds in the tunnel will feel like an eternity. | :25:20. | :25:39. | |
And with his young daughter and niece. The flames are up on the | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
pitch. This scene is set. Linfield against Coleraine in the Irish Cup | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
final. Chris, a red-hot atmosphere inside the ground. I can feel the | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
flames from here. The atmosphere is building. There is a good feeling | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
about the game. I think it will be an open match. The fact both teams | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
have come in with successful seasons for differing reasons, I think some | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
of the pressure will be lifted. A real sense of occasion. So much so, | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
earlier in the week, they asked Coleraine to come down and | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
experience the pre-match festivities for themselves. They walked onto the | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
pitch and experience that, getting the big match feel and there is | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
someone who knows about the big occasions, Jamie Moore groove. He | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
has played in seven finals and the one he lost last year, as he said, | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
was the most difficult to take. Orrin Kearney's twins, as I | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
mentioned earlier. His wife is up in the stands along with her father | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
Kenny Shiels and his mother and father as well, Liam and Bridget. | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
David Martin from the IFA. Meeting both sets of players. David Ogilby | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
is the skipper today. His son is in his arms. A pressure rise day for | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
the officials. There are bound to be nervous as well Out them. He knows | :27:24. | :27:35. | |
the man he is about to shake hands with, David Healy, very well. Roy | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
Carroll, playing in his first Irish Cup final in his first year in local | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
football. What a season he has had and what a season David Healy has | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
had. He had his doubters when he took the job last October but he has | :27:59. | :28:08. | |
proved them wrong. . As we pause for the national anthem. | :28:09. | :28:52. | |
It is showtime. This scene is set. The players are ready. And a final | :28:53. | :29:20. | |
handshake between the managers. The nerves will not go until a couple of | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
minutes in the game. It is not like a normal game. You do not go through | :29:27. | :29:35. | |
this routine on a given Saturday. Six of the line-up, 21 or younger. | :29:36. | :29:42. | |
Eoin Bradley was part of the Glenavon side who defeated Linfield | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
last year. Only one of the starters to have played in an Irish Cup final | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
before. David Healy going for a tried | :29:50. | :30:07. | |
starting XI. Roy Carroll, plus Stafford and Niall Quinn, both of | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
whom were on the bench last year. And these are the officials. Keith | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
Kenedy and his assistants. The fourth official is Tim Marshall. | :30:18. | :30:27. | |
Windsor Park is rocking. Eoin Bradley, a big game player, | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
according to Gary Hamilton. How crucial a role will he play today? | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
He is the one player who could have an impact in this game, Eoin | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
Bradley. Gary talked in the studio, he has the big-game mentality and | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
relishes these occasions. He is used to the big crowd and he is the one | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
big chance Coleraine have. I think Linfield are the favourites but if | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
Bradley is on his game, he could possibly win the game on his own. | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
Which one of tease two men will get their hands on Irish Cup this | :31:02. | :31:10. | |
afternoon? The coin toss taking place. David Ogilby the longest | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
serving member of the Coleraine squad. Mulgrew has won everything in | :31:15. | :31:25. | |
the game, but arguably this is his best season. Roy Carroll played in | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
the 2004 FA Cup Final with Manchester United, also won the | :31:30. | :31:36. | |
Greek Cup with Olympaikos. How crucial will he be today? Oran | :31:37. | :31:45. | |
Kearney, like David Healy, had his doubters. Can he win Coleraine's | :31:46. | :31:52. | |
first trophy since Marty Quinn in 2003? Huge amount of buses coming | :31:53. | :32:02. | |
down from the north coast. Keith Kennedy prepares to get this game | :32:03. | :32:04. | |
under way. Coleraine against Linfield led by | :32:05. | :32:24. | |
David Healy. Great atmosphere in the stadium. Fantastic to see such a big | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
crowd in for a domestic Cup Final. Well over 12,000 fans in Windsor | :32:32. | :32:33. | |
Park. We're under way. Lyndon Kane's family has had a busy | :32:34. | :33:03. | |
day. 18 months ago his aunt booked their wedding day. His mum and dad | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
went to the service earlier. Then raced down the road, they're going | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
back to the reception tonight for his aunt Gillian getting married to | :33:14. | :33:20. | |
John. Will there be silverware to celebrate at the reception? | :33:21. | :33:41. | |
A very attacking line-up picked by Oran Kearney today. | :33:42. | :33:54. | |
12,500 people confirmed in the stadium. Talk about nerves. The | :33:55. | :34:03. | |
flicked header was supposed to glance into the hands of Chris | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
Johns. Didn't work out. It's an early opportunity for Lynn feed to | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
put pressure on the back line. Yeah, it is. # easily defendable situation | :34:11. | :34:18. | |
there. Communication issue between goalkeeper and centre half. Possibly | :34:19. | :34:19. | |
the noise. A little tug on Adam Mullan who was | :34:20. | :34:42. | |
mar shalling the -- Jamie Mulgrew who was mar shalling the situation | :34:43. | :34:43. | |
well. Jamie Mulgrew senses the danger. If | :34:44. | :34:57. | |
Bradley had played it wide left, it would have been more advantageous. | :34:58. | :35:05. | |
It shows on the counter they can cause problems. | :35:06. | :35:26. | |
That's going to be another corner kick. Good start from Linfield. | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
Yeah. I think as well set pieces could be crucial for Linfield. | :35:32. | :35:33. | |
You're right it was lax from Coleraine. They allowed him to come | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
off and get the ball and turn. He's created a corner really from a | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
situation of a throw-in. Linfield we know the threats from set pieces. | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
The three defenders they have are grouped together. They're the three | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
that are a real danger from set pieces. Burns is in there as a | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
fourth. The referee will ask for the corner | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
to be taken again. He's having a word with a couple of players in the | :36:01. | :36:09. | |
box. I mentioned Callacher, Stafford, and Haughey at right back, | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
between them they have scored 23 goals this season. | :36:13. | :36:24. | |
Palmed away by Johns. That's a good chance. It's a decent header back | :36:25. | :36:32. | |
across from Mark Haughey. Wonder if it should have been put in the area | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
for somebody else. Routine save for Chris Johns. We | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
spoke about the importance of the first 20 minutes from a Coleraine | :36:43. | :36:45. | |
perspective. Chris Johns is going to try and take | :36:46. | :37:09. | |
his time over this. He will be glad to get his hands on the ball and | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
Coleraine can step out a little bit. The prescreeding corner there, Chris | :37:15. | :37:17. | |
Johns was interested in seeing him come through bodies to deal with it. | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
His defenders will be happy with him trying to help them out. | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
Appeals for offside. Straightforward enough decision. It has been a | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
fairly open first five minutes so far. Don't think we expected too | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
many opportunities early on, but certainly from those set pieces | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
Linfield have caused the Coleraine goalkeeper problems. | :37:44. | :37:50. | |
Roy Carroll seems to be loving his football here. Made the decision to | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
come back. He's been a very important cog in the Linfield | :37:55. | :37:57. | |
machine this season. Very athoritative. | :37:58. | :38:07. | |
Chris Johns had Roy Carroll up on his bedroom wall, one of his heroes | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
growing up. Now they're head to head in a Cup Final. | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
Nudge in the back from Callacher. The decision to could Rhine. -- | :38:20. | :38:30. | |
Coleraine. Looks a bit soft. Don't know whether Jimmy Callacher does an | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
awful lot. I'm sure Michael Bradley is strong enough to handle that. | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
You'd argue that's good centre forward play. Brought a free kick. I | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
think so. It gives Coleraine a moment of respite. They can play in | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
Linfield's half for a bit. Maybe throw a ball into the box here. It's | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
not a great angle for a cross. Too far probably for a shot. Brad Lyons | :38:51. | :39:00. | |
standing over it. Concern about him for this game, he had a knee injury, | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
but passed fit this morning. Harkin joined Coleraine in January. | :39:07. | :39:15. | |
Had a go from zand, very ambitious. It was going to take something. From | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
the second you left his boot you knew it wasn't going to cause Roy | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
Carroll too many problems. It is a difficult one there. He probably | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
felt I'll have a crack at this and see if we can work the goalkeeper. | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
Probably 35 yards out. The angle wasn't overly good to cross the | :39:33. | :39:33. | |
ball. Understandable. I think David Healy will be fairly | :39:34. | :40:01. | |
happy with this start. He will be. They've had a lot of ball in the | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
Coleraine half. They're not completely fluid in their play just | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
yet. But territorially they're playing well. You mentioned earlier | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
that 20-minute mark. They'll be keen to get there and still level in the | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
game. It hasn't been the best start from them. The longer this period | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
goes and they can start to feel a little bit more assured sured in the | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
-- assured in the match. Haughey, he's not happy with the | :40:26. | :40:50. | |
decision. No hesitation with the referee. I think he's probably right | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
there, the referee. They want McCauley on the ball. He seems to | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
play nearly inside. Doesn't start right out on the line like a | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
traditional winger. He plays inside ten, 15 yards. But he's a real | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
threat when he gets the ball and starts dribbling at people. | :41:12. | :41:53. | |
Linfield certainly on top in terms of possession. | :41:54. | :42:14. | |
So almost at the ten-minute mark for Oran Kearney. Two time Irish Cup | :42:15. | :42:25. | |
winner with Linfield. A real model pro in the Irish League. Very well | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
thought of and he certainly carried that into management. Very popular | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
figure around the local game. That's well played from Lyndon Kane. Ball | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
that he heads back, get it wrong and you put one of the other players in, | :42:41. | :42:49. | |
but takes the pressure out of the situation and cushioned it back. Six | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
of the Coleraine starting line-up 21 or younger. It is remarkable what | :42:55. | :43:02. | |
they've managed to achieve. It was a vision from both the chairman and | :43:03. | :43:05. | |
also Oran Kearney that they wanted young players from the area to line | :43:06. | :43:08. | |
out for them. Bradley took the wrong option. Two | :43:09. | :43:24. | |
or three runners from midfield. It's a good counterattack. It is the | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
wrong option. It sits up nicely for him. From that angle, that distance, | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
it will take unbelievable strength. You see McCauley running inside him | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
there. He berates him because he needs to slide it in between. A good | :43:38. | :43:39. | |
counterattack. Bit surprised thattor ran went for | :43:40. | :44:04. | |
the tree of Bradley, McLaughlin and McGonigle? A little bit yes. | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
McLaughlin could be a threat off the bench. Lyndon Kane is maybe hurt | :44:11. | :44:19. | |
ever so slightly there. Surprised that he didn't hold him back. He | :44:20. | :44:22. | |
scored the winning goal in the semifinal. McGonigle up front, and | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
that was a good pairing. He maybe just thought James McLaughlin could | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
be the man. He seems to be one that turns up on a good day. | :44:34. | :44:53. | |
Quinn's just filled in now. He will be comfortable enough playing as a | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
fullback until they get the shape again. That's the benefit of it. It | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
does work. It is interchangeable. Also the decision of David Healy to | :45:05. | :45:11. | |
play Mark Haughey at left back. He wanted to accommodate Stafford, as | :45:12. | :45:16. | |
well. Haughey is a centre half. But he's been pushed out to right back | :45:17. | :45:23. | |
because Linfield maybe have a little bit of a problem here with points | :45:24. | :45:24. | |
early on. He is comfortable on the ball. The | :45:25. | :45:40. | |
best defensive record of the league. Keep doing it, keep doing what works | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
for you. That was a powerful header forward by David Ogilby. Challenge, | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
Bradley. Very good with the ball at his feet, | :45:50. | :46:04. | |
Carroll. Clarke kicks it out for another | :46:05. | :46:32. | |
throwing. Paul Smyth has been quiet. He has not had a ball. It is | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
difficult for him to get into the game unless people give him the | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
ball. How they get him into the game and high up the pitch and in a | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
threatening position. That was an opportunity right now. There is a | :46:48. | :46:55. | |
real excitement about Paul Smyth when he gets on the ball. The energy | :46:56. | :47:04. | |
about him. David Healy likes him through the middle but also on the | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
wing because of his pace and he is one of the most exciting prospects | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
in the Irish league. And that was Paul Smyth taking on Mullan. | :47:14. | :47:28. | |
McConaghie dilly-dally. He always looks to make something happen. He | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
will not take an easy pass if it is on, he will try to commit people. He | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
is difficult for defenders to deal with. | :47:38. | :47:46. | |
Aaron Burns, challenged by David Ogilby. A soft decision? He does not | :47:47. | :48:02. | |
do a lot wrong. If that challenge had been on Aaron Burns, would he | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
have given a penalty? I think it was a soft free kick. The view from the | :48:10. | :48:16. | |
sideline. Harkin left his foot in. That is a | :48:17. | :48:41. | |
talking to for Ciaron Harkin. He has been very highly rated since making | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
the switch. He is still very young, Harkin, at 21. | :48:48. | :49:01. | |
Stafford this time flicking it towards the goal and another easy | :49:02. | :49:18. | |
take for Johns. He would do well to beat the keeper from that angle. | :49:19. | :49:30. | |
Chris Johns almost playing as sweeper keeper, he is that far off | :49:31. | :49:54. | |
his line. He is alert and aware of what is going on. | :49:55. | :50:03. | |
Bradley and Callacher, that is a tussle we will be adjudicating on | :50:04. | :50:14. | |
this afternoon. Paul Smyth made a decent run. Larry might have wanted | :50:15. | :50:22. | |
to have fed it down their for Paul Smyth, but I am not sure that was | :50:23. | :50:30. | |
on. It had to be pretty much inch perfect from Stephen Lowry and he | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
obviously overhit it. Not too many goal scoring chances so far. The | :50:36. | :50:42. | |
first five minutes were strong but it has got scrappy now. | :50:43. | :50:52. | |
Coleraine are coming into it a little bit more than certainly the | :50:53. | :50:55. | |
start of the game will -- game. -- Paul Smyth took on his man and | :50:56. | :51:22. | |
tried to pass it across the face of goal. He should have said it back to | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
Lowry and he has a thump at goal. Adam Mullan clean things up. That | :51:28. | :51:52. | |
was super play by Bradley. McCauley, but again, the touch is a little bit | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
too far ahead of the Coleraine player. That is the strength of | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
Bradley, the physical strength. Arguably that is a defenders ball. | :52:03. | :52:14. | |
But nobody is getting around him. What will Oran Kearney be thinking? | :52:15. | :52:21. | |
He will be relatively happy. Well played again. Kane. 100 games | :52:22. | :52:31. | |
already for Coleraine and he has not been overawed by the occasion. | :52:32. | :52:39. | |
Displaying that level of coolness. Paul Smyth, can he kick-start | :52:40. | :52:40. | |
something? Linfield pushing up a little bit in | :52:41. | :52:49. | |
the past couple of minutes. Patient and deliberate from | :52:50. | :53:06. | |
Linfield. That is where Burns is good. | :53:07. | :53:17. | |
A low cross from Clarke. That is probably one of Linfield's better | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
spells. Good strength from Clarke. Super | :53:23. | :53:35. | |
play from Clarke. Great defending. The referee says no corner kick. | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
From this distance it looks like it took a deflection. Aaron Burns | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
thought it did. I do not Inc there is any doubt. It certainly did. He | :53:47. | :53:53. | |
didn't hit it as cleanly as he would have liked. Definitely a corner. | :53:54. | :54:11. | |
Corner kick to Linfield. They are starting to look threatening again. | :54:12. | :54:21. | |
They are starting to settle and suddenly Linfield have turned it up. | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
They do not want Waterworth in the one-on-one situations because he is | :54:28. | :54:33. | |
quicker than Ogilby. A similar position he picked it up last week | :54:34. | :54:40. | |
against Cliftonville. Proving so crucial in the race for the league | :54:41. | :54:43. | |
title. Plenty of movement in the middle. Mark Stafford flicked it | :54:44. | :54:54. | |
wide. A great chance. Interesting to see it again to see how he attacked | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
the ball. Chris Johns was almost caught in a crowd of players. Aaron | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
Burns got his head to it and it fell to Stafford. How did he not score? | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
He should have hit the target. Chris Johns got caught underneath. Seem to | :55:11. | :55:17. | |
hold up in the breeze and he got caught underneath the ball and does | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
not deal with it. Linfield should have been ahead with that chance for | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
Stafford. Linfield starting to turn the screw. Still looking for the | :55:27. | :55:33. | |
first goal in this Irish Cup decider. | :55:34. | :55:43. | |
That was a difficult pass to thread through. It should have been fed | :55:44. | :55:53. | |
inside. Brad Lyons, whether he is talking to him, but it was a five | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
yard ball and it could have been recycled. But you can see the | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
strength of Bradley. It is difficult as player because you have to play | :56:05. | :56:06. | |
with the back to goal. Niall Quinn got a head to it and | :56:07. | :56:21. | |
flicked it towards goal but it was always looking like it would go over | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
the top from Quinn. It is difficult when there is no pace on the ball. I | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
presume he is trying to put it back. I don't think he would score from | :56:33. | :56:40. | |
there, trying to keep it alive. You have to be confident in that area. | :56:41. | :56:54. | |
The first time the combination of McLauchlan and Bradley have linked | :56:55. | :57:09. | |
up. -- McLaughlin. Maybe Harkin has not had the influence in the game | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
people thought he might. Aaron Burns, not the best first touch. | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
Trying to squeeze through two players. Wrong option. I think | :57:21. | :57:28. | |
Bradley got a toe to it. Linfield being forced to build from | :57:29. | :57:45. | |
the back once more. The midfield has been bypassed in | :57:46. | :57:56. | |
many ways, so far. Again, Linfield not afraid to commit | :57:57. | :58:45. | |
men forward. Waterworth. What a pass to Lyndon Kane but the right back | :58:46. | :58:47. | |
did just enough. Mulgrew always seems to be in the | :58:48. | :59:05. | |
right place at the right time. He has been outstanding for Linfield, | :59:06. | :59:08. | |
this year. Given the skipper's armband, as well. An altercation | :59:09. | :59:17. | |
between himself and McCauley. Mulgrew was running in an area where | :59:18. | :59:20. | |
he was under pressure and McCauley could not help himself. It is | :59:21. | :59:32. | |
understandable. There are nerves and tension out there. Both players want | :59:33. | :59:34. | |
it. That is desired, as well. I was talking to James Nesbitt and | :59:35. | :59:49. | |
his father James senior was on the Coleraine team bus. Goes to every | :59:50. | :59:55. | |
game. There he is alongside Jimmy Nesbitt. We hope to speak to him at | :59:56. | :00:01. | |
half-time. He is with his sisters at the game and his brother-in-law, as | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
well. Will he be celebrating in a couple of hours? | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
Clarke and Quinn whirl linking up -- were linking up again. Johns has not | :00:17. | :00:30. | |
had a great deal to do so far. Stafford's chance was the best | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
opportunity, as Harkin checks back and finds Mullan. | :00:36. | :00:49. | |
A tactic employed by Linfield, putting players under pressure. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
Breathing down their necks. Yeah, and that is a reasonable | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
opportunity. Mullin sometimes struggles. Waterworth! Andrew | :01:01. | :01:13. | |
Waterworth, who else. He's been in fantastic form. Five goals in his | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
last two games and he's given Linfield the lead. It was all about | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
the combination of Smyth and Waterworth. He's scored two in the | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
cup runs so far. Make that number three. It's certainly the most | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
important. Coleraine go to sleep on that throw-in. Waterworth is never | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
going to miss from there. Paul Smyth got his head up and picked out | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Waterworth. On the half-hour mark, it's advantage Linfield. David | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Healy's men go ahead. That comes from a situation where Coleraine had | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
put a couple of passes together. It went out to Mullin, but he struggles | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
sometimes because he's right footed. He wants to come onto his right | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
foot. They give the ball away in a position, just inside their half. | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
They don't react. A quick turnover and Linfield get the ball back in | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
play. Suddenly behind Smyth. Gets fortune with the deflection. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Waterworth's unmarked. He's not going to miss. Linfield are looking | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
the better side. You've got to take your chances when they come along | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
and Linfield have done that. Can Coleraine respond? Or will it be | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
that man Jamie Mulgrew lifting the Irish cup later today? | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
Certainly the volume has been turned up a few notches amongst the | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
Linfield supporters. They're going for the treble. The fans are | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
starting to believe. That dream a few weeks ago could well become | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
reality. Lovely control by Lovren. -- McLaughlin. Sfvment | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Coleraine haven't had much joy down the right side so far. | :03:19. | :03:31. | |
Harkin goes down on the challenge with McCauley. That duo clashing | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
once again. We could see the first booking in this Cup Final. It's | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
yellow for Darren McCauley. Don't know if that was for the dissent | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
afterwards. It's not really a bookable offence. Keith Kennedy | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
seems to point out that it was the second one. Because of the two | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
challenges, he felt yellow was merited. It's a clear foul. Mulgrew | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
does that better than anybody in the league. He picks up the ball in | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
dangerous areas and drives his team forward. All the moment right now is | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
with Linfield. Can they press home that advantage? | :04:12. | :04:46. | |
They haven't been able to retain possession in the final third. Roy | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
Carroll hasn't been called into action at all today. | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
Callacher goes down. This time the free kick goes Lynn fold's way. | :05:08. | :05:20. | |
Andrew Waterworth ghosting to the near post. We've witnessed that many | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
times through the years. Waterworth could double the lead. | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
Two for Waterworth! Two for Linfield. | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
The Linfield fans are certainly in full voice. It was a good stop | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
initially from Burns. Following up was Waterworth. He gapbled. -- | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
gapbled. -- gambled. After scoring a hat-trick last week, Waterworth | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
could be on course for another treble today. When you're hot, | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
you're hot. This ball breaks to him. Once it breaks to Waterworth, eight | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
yards out, just has to put his foot through it. Keeps his head. Never | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
going to miss. The confidence of the first goal makes that an absolute | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
gimme that chance. Arguably game, possibly, over. Coleraine a big task | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
to get back into this. They've struggled so far. They now have a | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
two-goal lead. They will play with more confidence now. That momentum, | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
as I mentioned before, very much with Linfield. Very much with Andrew | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Waterworth. What a conclusion to the season he's had. | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
Linfield looking very much like the Irish Cup is going to stay here at | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
Windsor Park. That's probably five goals for Andrew Waterworth over the | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
last 80 minutes of football. A hat-trick last week. Two in the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
first 32 minutes here. I think he scored two in the second half | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
against Coleraine as well in the 5-1 victory the week before. He's | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
certainly a player in form. You can see that. He's alive today. | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
Sometimes you come into games and with that level of form he's in, he | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
probably knew he was going to score today. First one, no problem. Close | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
enough, dispatches it. Second one the same. He's put Linfield in a | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
really strong position. They're not the most difficult finishes, but he | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
took they very well and coolie. He was playing like a man who's full of | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
confidence and enjoying his football more than ever. They're in the net | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
before he's probably thought about it. He's playing off instinct. When | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
you're confident, you don't look at things, don't think about it. His | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
first one, OK, three yards out. You've still got to put it away. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Sometimes they're as difficult as any other chance. Second one again, | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
doesn't think about it. In the back of the net before anybody's even | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
reacted. Linfield are playing with more confidence and I wouldn't be | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
surprised to see them get a few more goals. Coleraine, they're trying to | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
live with Linfield now who are a team obviously playing with huge | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
confidence. It's 14 years since another Linfield player probably | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
wearing the number seven scored a double in a Cup Final. They're the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
moments you savour, Chris, you scored two against Coleraine wearing | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
number seven as well. When you look back in your career, are those the | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
moments that stand out? Of course. There's nothing like it. It is the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
biggest game of the season. It's the games where you want to turn up and | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
show what you can do. I think Peter Thomson might argue with you. He | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
scored in a number of Cup Finals and scored twos. But we know these are | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
the big occasions. You look for a big occasion player, Waterworth | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
proved it last week. He's turned up again today and it's his goals that | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
are the difference at the minute. Can Coleraine find a way back into | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
this game? They need to score soon. If they don't, I could see Linfield | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
just getting totally on top of the match. Yellow card for Aaron Burns | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
following the challenge on Lyndon Kane. He seems to be clutching his | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
jaw. Both players attacking the ball. What do you think? His arm's | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
raised. It's a foul. It's a free kick. Probably a yellow card. I | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
don't think there was anything overly sinister from Aaron Burns. He | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
wasn't looking over his shoulder. He didn't see the player. Wasn't | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
intending to catch him. I think Keith Kennedy has got it right. Thus | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
far he's had a good game. Lyndon Kane down, getting a little bit of | :09:50. | :09:58. | |
attention. What will Oran Kearney say at halftime? His side have been | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
shell shocked in this first 37 minutes. A double in quick success | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
from Andrew Waterworth. Those fans have certainly been ice lensed. # -- | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
silenced. They don't give up though. This Coleraine side have battled | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
back many times this season. Well hit by McGonigle. Comfortably | :10:20. | :10:50. | |
saved by Carroll. Can't work out whether he's offside or not. Hard to | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
tell from that angle. A little bit more positive from a Coleraine | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
perspective. They haven't panicked since the second goal went in. Just | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
more than anything for these players to just settle a bit. Yeah, because | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
the game can suddenly run away from you. They have a lot of young | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
players. They've come into this game today with probably two or three | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
nearly off and the season, they qualified for Europe, they achieved | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
that goal early on. They started to play out fixtures. Linfield have had | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
to play 100% every minute for the last six months probably or more. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
They've chased crusaders down and overturned that. Coleraine had a | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
fantastic season. It's difficult to turn it back on. They had a pasting | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
from Linfield, OK, a shadow team. That was two weeks ago. They have to | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
get themselves rallied again. Suddenly Ogilby will drive forward | :11:46. | :12:14. | |
and once a defensive situation, suddenly Linfield are in the final | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
third and looking to create a chance. | :12:18. | :13:04. | |
Throw-in. I don't think he was going to score from that distance. | :13:05. | :13:40. | |
They're struggling get out. You saw that counterattack, if Burns had | :13:41. | :14:04. | |
been able to get his head up quickly and switch the play, Smyth was in | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
acres of space. Stopped by Roy Carroll. Callacher | :14:07. | :14:25. | |
did his job. Don't know why he elected to take the shot on. | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
Especially with Bradley inside him. Badly could have tried... Didn't | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
really sit much for him on the left-hand side. | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
He probably could have let it come across his body a bit more and fed | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
it across or got a cleaner strike on it. | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
It's been all Linfield in the opening period. Andrew Waterworth | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
with two so far. Can Coleraine kick back before the break. | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
He almost tried to play the same ball as last year in the Cup final. | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
There was not a lot on for him. His run was checked a little bit. Still | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
a little bit of hope for Coleraine with Bradley, if they get him | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
involved in the match. I think Mrs Coleraine's first corner kick of the | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
game. -- I think this is Coleraine's. They took it short. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Linfield are well set up to deal with set pieces. They have threats | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
at the other end, big men with strength who will attack balls. It | :15:56. | :16:05. | |
was a looping ball in and no real chance for that man Brad Lyons. | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
He has been huge for them. His influence around the place. Saying | :16:16. | :16:27. | |
how impressed he has been, for the player who has played at that level. | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
Roy Carroll. He is not just here for a season to see what happens. He is | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
not afraid to give people around him a rollicking. He is one of the key | :16:43. | :16:54. | |
reasons they have a good defensive record this season. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Decision-making again. Making bad decisions because they are in this | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
situation they are in in the game. We saw him score, top corner, a few | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
weeks ago, that nobody expected. Maybe looking at building an attack | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
and feeding out wide to McGonigle when they get that option. In terms | :17:25. | :17:33. | |
of options on the bench for Oran Kearney, from the attacking | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
perspective, people like Parkhill, Allen. Two minutes of additional | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
time being played. Will there be a sting in the tail in first half | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
injury time? Is their time for one last chance | :17:53. | :18:19. | |
is? Roy Carroll happy enough for a few more seconds. What will be said | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
in the dressing room? Linfield, keep doing what we are doing. They are | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
halfway there. They are in such an ascendancy you cannot see it being | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
any different. McGonigle hammering it clear as far | :18:36. | :18:54. | |
as Bradley. Bradley can't squeeze it through that space. Always going | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
wide. It is difficult from that distance. At this stage of the half, | :19:06. | :19:18. | |
he is probably happy enough. Oran Kearney has a big job now at | :19:19. | :19:34. | |
half-time. Whether he needs to make a substitution. Can you see them | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
getting back into the game? Scoring the next goal, that is important. It | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
is huge in this game. They have to believe they can do it. If they | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
score next, possibly. Andy Waterworth has made the difference | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
so far, as David Healy walks into the dressing room, very content with | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
the first 45 minutes. It has been Linfield's day so far. Number seven, | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
the most important statistic, 2-0 ahead. We can go pitch side now. | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
We are joined by the assistant manager William Murphy. You took | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
people by surprise with the team selection, three attacking players. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
What was the thinking? You only get one chance in a cup final and we | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
thought it was the right decision but it has proved to be the wrong | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
decision. Second best all over the pitch. Hopefully at half-time we | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
regroup the boys. If you score the next goal, you are back in the game. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
We have not started one bit. What will you say at half-time? I am on | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
TV, I probably would not like to say! But may be a few hairdryers | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
across the changing room. It is a big half-time team talk for Oran | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
Kearney. Back to the studio. Thanks for your | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
discretion, William Murphy. Can they turn it around? It will be | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
difficult. Waterworth is torturing the back, especially the two centre | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
halves. They do not know whether to get tight with him or stand-off and | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
they are caught in no man's land. Standing off him, he has run them | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
and ended up with two goals. If Coleraine are to come back they will | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
have to sort that out. We will take a scalpel to it in a moment but are | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
you in agreement, they have to make changes? There are options. I am not | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
sure. I think there will be a change of mindset. Linfield came out | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
positive and confident and looked like champions. Whether there was | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
nervousness around Coleraine. We thought they were not getting tight | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
enough quickly enough and were not winning first and second balls. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
There was authority about Linfield. And as Gary alluded to, the front | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
four, great fluidity. On a personal note I am delighted for Andrew | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
Waterworth. Brian McLaughlin and I brought him to the club. We will get | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
to Andrew Waterworth in a moment but he was saying it has all been | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
Linfield. No doubt, Linfield have dominated. Coleraine have not | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
offered any resistance and the back four are all over the place, not | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
marking tightly enough will stop if I was Oran Kearney I would have a | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
pop at the players, looking to go a bit tighter. A great save from | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
Johns. It was a confidence booster for the boy. Linfield were lucky the | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
first in my opinion. Got it into the box and it took a deflection off | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
McConnachie. Right into the path of Waterworth who is deadly inside the | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
box. They are cantering along now and if Coleraine do not improve it | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
could be 4-0. Burns had a chance, blocked by McConnachie. Talk us | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
through these two stop a great ball into the box and he headed it back. | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
This is Aaron Burns, is it? I thought it was a corner kick. | :23:46. | :23:56. | |
Disappointed they did not score from there. And a chance. Surely he will | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
be disappointed. Maybe he swings with the left foot and if he was | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
facing goal it was in the back of the net. Waterworth comes into his | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
own on the 23rd minute. Brian McLaughlin takes a lot of praise for | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
signing Andrea Burk this demonstrates Linfield's fluidity. | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
Giving him so much time and space and room. There was an unfortunate | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
deflection into Andrew's path, but I am asking, where is the marking? Who | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
is following up, Andrew Waterworth. A great touch by Aaron Burns. Again, | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
the centre-backs not tight enough and the forwards actors. Chris | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
Johns, it looked like the keeper did nothing wrong. -- and the forwards. | :24:56. | :25:09. | |
Chris Johns has done nothing wrong. Waterworth was alive to the | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
situation. You thought it might have been Bradley that was offside. I | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
thought it was. McGonigle is just on. A good save, but it does not | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
count, it was given as offside. Again, their chances were few and | :25:32. | :25:32. | |
far between. This one, David, a half chance? But | :25:33. | :25:44. | |
when we were discussing this during the game, we remarked it was the | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
first real attempt on goal, notwithstanding the previous one | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
offside. Oran Kearney is pondering, what do we have to do? Linfield are | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
controlled, their movement is good. Coleraine seem to go back to front | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
quickly and the ball is not held up top and they are not getting | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
possession. It smacks of nerves. And maybe getting in at half-time, they | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
will say, we have nothing to lose, let's go out and have a pop. If they | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
are gung ho, they will be open to the counterattack. The international | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
manager is now pitch side. Michael O'Neill joins us. You would | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
be a millionaire with this place but it must be nice to be here without | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
the pressure of having to win the game yourself? It is always nice. It | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
is fitting the Cup final is played in a stadium of this calibre. There | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
is a good crowd here and Linfield have responded. What memories do you | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
have, the 2003 final? We were beaten back day by Coleraine. We were going | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
for a clean sweep of trophies but on the day they deserved to win. It is | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
mixed. The following year I was injured and Glentoran won the Cup. | :27:11. | :27:20. | |
But the minute, the Cup looks like it is going to Linfield. I think | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
Coleraine have not really got started. Waterworth has been very | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
good. Smyth and Burns have been good. All the best players have been | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
in Linfield shirts and Coleraine need to get a reaction, get a goal | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
back early in the second half, otherwise Linfield will win the game | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
easily. Were you surprised by the decision to start with the three-man | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
strikeforce by Oran Kearney? It is a bold move. He might have to consider | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
it because they are being overrun in the middle, particularly the wide | :27:58. | :28:05. | |
players. They are at the point of a game where they have to go for it. | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
They need to get a goal back as early as they can. Azerbaijan in a | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
month, are you feeling confident? It will be a tough game, it is | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
difficult because of the distance we have to travel, and the time of the | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
year makes it difficult. We are in good form and good shape and we know | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
the significance of three points and I hope between now and the end of | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
the season, everybody comes through injury free. Three pipes would be | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
nice -- three points would be nice to head into the holidays. The next | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
game away is San Marino and then we have big games coming up in | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
September, October, but the key thing is to keep momentum, and keep | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
clean sheets, as well. Michael O'Neill, thanks for joining us. | :28:57. | :28:57. | |
Back to the studio. I seem to recall as a 16, | :28:58. | :29:07. | |
17-year-old, he started out life at Coleraine. Will Northern Ireland | :29:08. | :29:19. | |
qualified for World Cup? No. Yes. Yes. Thanks for your brutal honesty! | :29:20. | :29:28. | |
Three wise men here. Put your managerial hat on. Marty, if you are | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
David Healy, do you say you are happy with 2-0? If you are Oran | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
Kearney, do you say if we go three down, the wheels will come off but | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
conversely we might as well lose four, five than two? Keep it going, | :29:45. | :29:52. | |
same again, and we ran out easy winners because Coleraine have | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
offered no resistance. Oran Kearney might need to make a couple of | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
changes with a couple of players not living up to expectations. | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
McLaughlin and McGonigle do not look as fit as they could be. I am told | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
young McGonigle had a bit of an injury so maybe make a couple of | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
changes. They need to get something out of the game and early otherwise | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
it will collapse around them and it will be an easy counter for Linfield | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
and they could look at more goals. I am concerned about the defensive | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
duties of the Coleraine defenders. There is too much room to be got in. | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
They need to close that down. They need to be more competitive in the | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
middle. Somebody will have to get a feud tackles. Coleraine have not won | :30:45. | :30:51. | |
any thing in the first 45 minutes. I have not seen anybody challenging | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
for balls, I have not seen anybody win a header. They have only given | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
about 50%. I can distil that into David Healy can stick, does Oran | :31:03. | :31:11. | |
Kearney have to go forward? the luxury of sticking. You know, we're | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
all good players if we get space and time. If you go and press it, maybe | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
you'll force a mistake and win the ball higher up the pitch and get | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
Bradley behind with pace, McGonigle or even number seven, McCauley in | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
behind as well. They're three dangerous players. They need to | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
start winning the ball higher up the pitch, they're giving them too much | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
time in their own half so they are able to release players. McCauley on | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
an yellow card. The last thing they need is to go down to ten. Linfield | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
are controlling this. Coleraine have got to come at them. The question is | :31:46. | :31:55. | |
Stephen Douglas, McCafferty, they've got to be changed surely. As a | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
player, Irish Cup final day, you don't want a poor day. You feel | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
terrible. You feel awful. In the first instance, Oran has two | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
choices: Is he zies of at this point. What would you do? I would | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
get hold of the players and saying fellows we haven't been here for X | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
amount of years, we've done fantastically well to get here, I | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
would refer to the game against us where they were so imperious. I | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
would remind the players you've come here to Windsor Park and beaten | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
Linfield 1-0. We haven't turned up. Let's get in their faces, go at | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
them. Let's see if you can redeem yourselves so you give that group | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
their ten, maybe 15 minutes, can they get something going. If it | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
doesn't, then after 15 minutes, then you make your changes. You bring | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
Parkhill on, McGonigle through the centre, where he can use his pace a | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
bit more. It's Brad Lyons who has a heavy knee strapping, maybe there's | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
a change there. In the first instance, you're appealing to their | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
emotions. The Coleraine players haven't come here to play not to | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
perform. They will feel down. Challenge them. William Murphy said | :33:02. | :33:06. | |
a poignant thing, 2-0 is a funny score line, I haven't a clue why it | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
is, but we all say that. The next goal is most important. If Coleraine | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
get it, will Linfield get the jitters. If Linfield get it, it | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
could be four, five on the day. Any danger that Linfield will say, | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
that's it. The treble's in the bag now and they might just let up and | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
take the eye off the ball, because Coleraine for the last ten minutes | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
of that first half did play themselves back into it. No, I can't | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
see that happening. I think they've enough experience in the team to | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
drive on. Roy Carroll at the back isn't going to let people get on top | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
of him. You're going to be looking at Jamie Mulgrew with the vast | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
experience he has to motivate and drive them on. Andrew Waterworth up | :33:47. | :33:59. | |
front, they're not going to accept a below-par performance. It's looking | :34:00. | :34:03. | |
like one, two, three, Linfield, Linfield, Linfield. Anybody brave | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
enough to tip Coleraine? Not at the minute. No, I don't think. So | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
Linfield are in total control and totally dominant. It's going to be | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
difficult, you can see Jamie Mulgrew out there. Linfield are back out | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
there. Oran Kearney also back out there. There is Andrew Waterworth, | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
hat-trick last week. Secured the Gibson cup and he is potentially on | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
yet another hat-trick. I think we can almost pick the man of the match | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
at halftime. Let's see if Coleraine have anything in the tank. Can they | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
bring anything to the table. Let's go back to our match commentary | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
team. COMMENTATOR: Thank you very much, | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
Mark. Yes, you mention Andrew Waterworth also scored two in the | :34:47. | :34:53. | |
2013 Cup Final for Glentoran against Linfield. We haven't had a hit trick | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
in a Cup Final since 1969. He might be chasing a bit of history there. | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
Coleraine out very, very early. No changes at halftime. Still waiting | :35:04. | :35:10. | |
for Jimmy Callacher. He's made his way onto the field. Surprised no | :35:11. | :35:22. | |
changes? A little bit yeah. David was talking there, maybe give 15 | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
minutes and if they don't respond maybe make some changes. They need | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
to get back in the game. He's looking at vpg the attacking threats | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
of McLaughlin, McGonigle and Bradley high up the pitch. It is now or | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
never for Coleraine. 45 minutes, they have to try and find a way back | :35:40. | :35:41. | |
into this game. A good start to this second half | :35:42. | :35:59. | |
crucial for Oran Kearney's side. You mentioned the run that Linfield were | :36:00. | :36:05. | |
on. Coleraine hadn't an astonishing period between the new year and when | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
they secured that third place in European football. OK they took | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
their foot off the gas the last couple of games, beaten by | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
crusaders. But until that point, they were outstanding as Bradley | :36:20. | :36:23. | |
clashes with Lowry. Windsor Park looking fantastic, it | :36:24. | :36:36. | |
has to be said today. Flicked on by Burns. Big match feel. Big match | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
occasion. Town against country. The supporters have come out to follow | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
their respective teams. A third goal for Linfield really | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
would kill the game. They've got a corner kick any way. Linfield have | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
just picked up this half as they finished the first half. I do think | :37:02. | :37:11. | |
set pieces from this side they look more dangerous because Quinn's | :37:12. | :37:13. | |
delivery superb. Good goal keeping from Johns after | :37:14. | :37:32. | |
the first half, where he was on a couple of occasions crowded out by | :37:33. | :37:33. | |
Linfield players. Momentarily it looked as if that was | :37:34. | :37:50. | |
going to run all the way through to McLaughlin. But it was Roy Carroll | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
off his line quickly, took control of the situation. It's again a poor | :37:56. | :38:06. | |
decision from McGonigle. He's neither shot nor crossed there. | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
It's all a bit predictable at times for Coleraine. | :38:12. | :38:24. | |
Especially those long balls into Bradley and McLaughlin they're the | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
sort of balls that Stafford and Callacher will love to defend. | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
That's where their strengths are. Start playing balls down the side of | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
them and they have to turn to their own goal. Defenders don't like that. | :38:39. | :38:40. | |
Opportunity now for McCauley. I'm surprised Waterworth made the | :38:41. | :39:08. | |
run into the channel there. I'm surprised he didn't just leave | :39:09. | :39:09. | |
himself in the box. That shot stung the palms of Johns. | :39:10. | :39:23. | |
Good strike. Quick thinking on the set piece. Clarke just stepped in | :39:24. | :39:32. | |
there. No coal rab defender -- Coleraine defender sensed the | :39:33. | :39:33. | |
danger. They're not alive to the throw-in. | :39:34. | :39:45. | |
They've gone to sleep. That's basic stuff that you should always be, | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
defenders need to be constantly aware of potential danger. They're | :39:51. | :39:51. | |
not seeing that. I'm sure Oran Kearney at halftime | :39:52. | :40:04. | |
would have wanted some kind of a response from his players, some kind | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
of spark just to kickstart a comeback. It hasn't really happened | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
so far. Still has a very tentative look about them when they pick up | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
possession. McCauley picked it up and you expect him to go at a | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
player, to be direct. He turned and laid it back to Mullin. Somebody's | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
got to be brave and try to make something happen. | :40:26. | :40:33. | |
He's won a corner kick. That's better. He committed the defender, | :40:34. | :40:42. | |
dropped the shoulder. That's his strength, taking plards on. And | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
crucially the supporters behind the goal, suddenly a roar. They are | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
trying to lift their side as well. Yeah, they'll respond to what's | :40:53. | :40:53. | |
happening. Super challenge by Lyons to | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
momentarily stop the counterattack. Paul Smyth tried to get goal side of | :41:00. | :41:20. | |
Mullin, hauled down. That's going to be another booking. Actually what | :41:21. | :41:27. | |
Smyth, did he pull first of all? There's no doubt that Mullin pulled | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
his shirt afterwards. He goes into the book. An, hauled down. That's | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
going to be another booking. Actually what Smyth, did he pull | :41:39. | :41:41. | |
first of all? There's no doubt that Mullan pulled his shirt afterwards. | :41:42. | :41:43. | |
He goes into the book. Worse from a Coleraine perspective, is that there | :41:44. | :41:46. | |
are few better players in the Irish League for this kind of situation | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
than Niall Quinn. It's going to go in with decent pace. | :41:50. | :41:57. | |
Callacher and Haughey, jotling for position. | :41:58. | :42:04. | |
-- jostling. Jostling Good ball in. Callacher got his head | :42:05. | :42:19. | |
to it. Couldn't hit the target. Good delivery again. They know what's | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
going to happen, still very, very difficult to stop it. Goalkeeper | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
just gets caught. He's coming for a ball and it's caught underneath it | :42:29. | :42:30. | |
again. Just hasn't been Coleraine's day | :42:31. | :42:54. | |
from an attacking perspective. That's a perfect example. Suddenly | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
that roar from the supporters. They've waited a long, long time for | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
an effort on goal. They sense that this could be when Coleraine get the | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
breakthrough. Well taken though by Roy Carroll. | :43:12. | :43:18. | |
Here's another look at it. Bradley's effort was deflected. | :43:19. | :43:21. | |
McGonigle couldn't strike it goalwards. Just as it looked like it | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
was going to fall for McCauley, it was hammered clear. | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
Windsor Park is rocking. I mentioned the Coleraine supporters a moment | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
ago. Linfield fans have been in full voice as well. Linfield have won a | :43:38. | :43:44. | |
free kick. Just led with the elbow Ogilby. | :43:45. | :43:52. | |
Coleraine fans are working hard for their team. Attacking that goal will | :43:53. | :44:00. | |
give them a bit of belief. We said that the next goal is so important | :44:01. | :44:10. | |
in this game. Linfield started quite strongly. | :44:11. | :44:11. | |
Coleraine have come back into it. It almost worked out for Paul Smyth. | :44:12. | :44:24. | |
I think Mark Stafford has been working on his flicks given what | :44:25. | :44:26. | |
he's been doing. In the a tall player, but he | :44:27. | :44:41. | |
certainly enjoys flying in with a few challenges. He nearly overturned | :44:42. | :44:53. | |
a situation. Ogilby gets away from him, but Smith doesn't give him a | :44:54. | :44:56. | |
moment. He's working hard and snapping his heelles. Starting to | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
talk about the amount of times he went to games as a kid, David Healy. | :45:03. | :45:09. | |
He remembers the 1995 game between Linfield and Carrick. Linfield won | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
3-1. He remembers going to the oval at that stage. Remembers being in | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
England and watching The Cup Final on TV. Recalls your two goals as | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
well. Back in 2000 his cousin was playing | :45:23. | :45:31. | |
for Glentoran. When he arrived at Linfield manager, people said he | :45:32. | :45:34. | |
never played in the Irish League, but he certainly enjoyed watching it | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
from afar. He talked about going to games on Boxing Day between Linfield | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
and Glentoran. He's justified it with what he's achieved this year. | :45:43. | :45:48. | |
He had a clear interest. A notable Linfield van. -- fan. He has played | :45:49. | :46:02. | |
at a high level. He knows football. That was the criticism levelled at | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
him when he went on the bad run and lost games. It hurt him. You could | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
see the significance of comments when they won the league. He was | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
almost saying to everybody who criticised him, I have done it, I | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
have won this lead with these players. There is no doubt he was | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
always respected. There is always pressure on any Linfield manager to | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
deliver and win games and win trophies and he has achieved that. | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
It will make things easier for him but there will still be pressure | :46:39. | :46:43. | |
next season. Yes, they demand success at Windsor Park and nobody | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
knows that better than David Jeffrey, in the studio, who was | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
untouchable during his time here. They found it difficult | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
understandably to replace him. And speaking of replacements, Coleraine | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
are making the change. Parkhill is coming on. You would expect this | :47:03. | :47:09. | |
will mean McGonigle will go through the middle and Parkhill taking up | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
the spot on the right. He has to get into a defensive situation now, | :47:16. | :47:20. | |
making the long run. You are taking off a striker but I think McGonigle | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
will go down the middle, giving Linfield a different problem. It | :47:25. | :47:34. | |
will be interesting to see if they can get McGonigle into the game now. | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
Parkhill is a tireless worker and an unsung hero of the Coleraine side. | :47:40. | :47:45. | |
Unlucky to miss out this time but Oran Kearney went for a different | :47:46. | :47:52. | |
formation, attacking. A slight change with Parkhill coming on. Will | :47:53. | :48:00. | |
it work out as Quinn attacked at the other end. A super ball in. | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
Smyth tried a little trick. But away by McConaghie. | :48:06. | :48:17. | |
A crucial period of the game. For Coleraine. They need something to | :48:18. | :48:25. | |
happen to get back into this cup final. | :48:26. | :48:36. | |
Haughey found Aaron Burns. That was a super challenge from Harkin. Just | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
did enough. Coleraine on the break. He paused and gave time for Linfield | :48:43. | :49:00. | |
to get numbers back. McGonigle, over the top. It was a half chance. It | :49:01. | :49:10. | |
comes as in quickly and he is unfortunately not able to direct it. | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
The first cross comes in and is flicked on. It was instinctive. His | :49:16. | :49:20. | |
reaction says it all. He knows how good an opportunity it was. A | :49:21. | :49:28. | |
brilliant challenge from Harkin. The cross. From Quinn. But it is opened | :49:29. | :49:37. | |
again. McCauley trying to set Bradley on his way. He has to look | :49:38. | :49:48. | |
at the situation better, McCauley. Bradley had run into the near | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
channel and he tried to sweep it to the far side. I am sure Oran Kearney | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
at half-time would have said, this is your time to shine, do not let | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
this cup final pass you by. In this second half, Coleraine have turned | :50:03. | :50:05. | |
the screw and maybe gambled more than in the first half. | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
They are starting to play. You do not want to come to a cup final and | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
have regrets after. They will have a view about the first half but they | :50:17. | :50:19. | |
have the chance in the second half to rectify it. | :50:20. | :50:31. | |
In the end he conceded the throwing. He has already made one swap. | :50:32. | :50:41. | |
Oran Kearney might be considering another. His side need goals. | :50:42. | :50:56. | |
McGonigle going past one, passed two, but could not get past the | :50:57. | :51:03. | |
third. Should have played it to McCauley. | :51:04. | :51:13. | |
We have not witnessed too much in an attacking sense from Stephen Lowry. | :51:14. | :51:19. | |
Smyth, it worked out for him initially but Harkin was back. Smyth | :51:20. | :51:27. | |
winning another free kick. Again it is the never say die attitude. He | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
lost the ball and battles to win it back. So quick. It looked like | :51:33. | :51:39. | |
Harkin was in front and suddenly Smyth started back around him. He | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
does not give defenders a minute. He has so many qualities, he is | :51:45. | :51:59. | |
direct. He will take on defenders. He has supposedly a nasty side, | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
maybe that is too strong a word but you made the point he does not shirk | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
away from the physical side, as well. And he gave his side an | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
opportunity to attack the Coleraine goal once again. Going down fairly | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
easily. This is it again. I do not see an | :52:16. | :52:25. | |
awful lot. I think McGonigle was the closest to him. Mark Stafford has | :52:26. | :52:36. | |
been a rock at the back for Linfield. Always takes control of | :52:37. | :52:46. | |
the situation. This time, he is adjudged to have been climbing over | :52:47. | :52:47. | |
McCauley. Brad Lyons has been hampered, | :52:48. | :53:11. | |
perhaps, by that injury. Bradley tried to threaded through to | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
McGonigle. McConnachie's go from distance is blocked by Stafford | :53:16. | :53:16. | |
again. Sadly, Linfield are pinned back in | :53:17. | :53:33. | |
their own half. Bradley goes down under the challenge of Callacher. He | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
is brilliant at that, Bradley. He gets his body into position and | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
waits for the contact. Knowing Eoin Bradley, he wore fancy this. He is | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
going to have a go. It is a long way out. But he feels like he deserves | :53:48. | :53:56. | |
this now. It suits a left footed player in terms of the angle but | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
again, it is probably close to 30 yards out. I certainly would not be | :54:02. | :54:16. | |
overly confident. Knowing Bradley, he would fancy this. He is that type | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
of player, he thrives on the big stage. The wall did its job. He | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
appeals for handball. Waved away by the officials, though. This is | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
better from Coleraine. The flag was up on the far side, it | :54:32. | :54:44. | |
was up late and Oran Kearney is not happy. My first instinct, McGonigle | :54:45. | :54:54. | |
just got on the shoulder of Haughey. A decent pass, but the assistant has | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
a better view then we have but at first instinct, I thought it was | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
onside. I do not think the wall could have done anything. It was the | :55:06. | :55:12. | |
reaction of the Coleraine players. They just need something to go their | :55:13. | :55:20. | |
way, Coleraine, now. They have looked better having made the switch | :55:21. | :55:22. | |
with Parkhill coming on for MacLachlan. | :55:23. | :55:37. | |
Well won by the defender. Flicked on by Waterworth will stop it will be a | :55:38. | :56:06. | |
yellow card for Gareth McConaghie. Waterworth loves getting into that | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
position, when he picks the ball up deep and can really hurt players. It | :56:12. | :56:22. | |
is a ball... He reacts quicker. There is no need for McConaghie to | :56:23. | :56:25. | |
make that challenge. Waterworth will always get there first. He is | :56:26. | :56:33. | |
flicking it on to nobody and the result is they get a free kick in a | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
dangerous position. Maybe a little too far out for Niall Quinn. He is | :56:40. | :56:45. | |
obviously thinking about it. He is probably 30 yards out. Niall Quinn, | :56:46. | :56:53. | |
though, very good from these situations. Now it is the Linfield | :56:54. | :57:04. | |
fans in full voice. Oran Kearney having a chat. Trying to figure out | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
how they can influence this game and find a way back into this cup final. | :57:10. | :57:20. | |
Niall Quinn, the 23-year-old. He started on the bench last year. He | :57:21. | :57:29. | |
will really fancy this. He is a free kick specialist. | :57:30. | :57:43. | |
Sometimes you look at it and think it is too far and he will have to | :57:44. | :57:49. | |
work too hard and he certainly looks like he is trying to force it with | :57:50. | :57:54. | |
that effort. Bradley used his strength again. Options left and | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
right. McGonigle almost went past his man. That was a super challenge | :58:00. | :58:05. | |
from Stafford, who took control of the situation as it looked like | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
McGonigle was getting away from him. The best move from a Coleraine | :58:11. | :58:18. | |
perspective of the game so far. It was an important chance. He cannot | :58:19. | :58:28. | |
get it wrong. If you does, penalty. Joined up play from Harkin and | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
Bradley. McGonigle, his first thought was to take the man on. He | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
is causing problems because he is picking up different areas. Bradley | :58:41. | :58:51. | |
with acres of room. That was a defender who got in the way. | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
Directing it back into the hands of Roy Carroll. I think initially | :58:57. | :59:01. | |
Haughey was down off the ball. It enabled Bradley to find space. He | :59:02. | :59:11. | |
does well. He turned. Just before that Aaron Burns tried to flick won | :59:12. | :59:16. | |
and lost possession. He is telling him, give us something to hold onto. | :59:17. | :59:24. | |
Coleraine are getting a little bit of momentum. If they could sneak a | :59:25. | :59:31. | |
goal, suddenly it becomes a different match. This is not over | :59:32. | :59:38. | |
yet. Andrew Waterworth, a huge part he has played in this game. He did | :59:39. | :59:40. | |
not give up on that one. One thing we noticed from the | :59:41. | :59:56. | |
semifinal, Chris Johns, when he got on the ball, straightaway he was | :59:57. | :00:01. | |
looking to pick out a player 50, 60 yards away. He has been more | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
contained today, may reserved. Is it a case of Coleraine going for broke | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
and committing men forward, let's try to take an opportunity to get a | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
goal? They have two. At 69 minutes they need two. To take it to extra | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
time. You could hope you could get one playing the same way and the | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
game suddenly changed, but the longer the time goes on... And if | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
you lose by two you might well lose by three. If they lose 2-0 and had a | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
really good go, and were just unfortunate. That is OK, but if you | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
do nothing different and keep hoping for the best, at some point, they | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
will have to make a change. Throw more caution to the wind. You're | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
right, it might be three, four then lose 2-0 and not have a real go. The | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
only player they have of a attacking perspective from the bench is Jordan | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
Allan. He is an out and out striker. You might well find that Coleraine | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
have to go with Jordan Allan Bradley up top and see what happens. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
They could bring him on. He would dominate the midfield area. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Certainly Jordan Allan will be thinking, give me a chance, put me | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
on. We need a goal. That is the obvious change. If you just put | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
three men up there, they will defend it easier. Sometimes you need | :01:36. | :01:36. | |
different options. Going down under the challenge of | :01:37. | :01:48. | |
Lowry. Lowry was fuming at Aaron Burns. | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
Appeals for a handball following the challenge. Waved away by the | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
referee. Interesting to look at that one. Decent first touch from | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
Bradley. It did strike a hand but wasn't intentional. It hit his body | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
first. Something is going on between Stafford and Bradley. Referee want | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
to have a word with both of them. Just a talking to. Yeah, sensible | :02:22. | :02:33. | |
refereeing. If it had hit his hand first, there would be a call for | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
handball. You can argue that the arm is in April unnatural position, but | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
once it plays his body first and ricochets, there's not much you can | :02:46. | :02:46. | |
do. They could swap Paul Smyth, put him | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
in the middle. The pace of Smyth. Another free | :02:56. | :03:16. | |
kick. Lowry going into the book. He got away with one two minutes ago. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
The referee has decided this is the right time to book him. I think it's | :03:21. | :03:29. | |
probably right. We're looking at the about Burns burn getting hold of it. | :03:30. | :03:46. | |
Goes down under the challenge of Stafford. His arms were out. He | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
feels it just hasn't been his day. Yeah, I'm not sure again. Sometimes | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
it's just a physical challenge and one player goes down. Referees are | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
very keen to give free kicks. I think they both went in and went to | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
challenge for it. Almost every Coleraine player is | :04:06. | :04:24. | |
huddled in and around the penalty area. | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
In that situation, you've got to make the defenders work. Yeah utter | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
frustration. It's understandable because you get opportunities for a | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
free kick and into the box. You're right you've got to put it in and | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
ask the question. To give it straight back to Linfield, that's | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
what they want, pressure taken off again. Confirmation of that yellow | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
card we spoke about a couple of moments ago. Stephen Lowry has been | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
a superb player this year. Made the switch from Coleraine. Took a bit of | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
time to settle here at Windsor Park. He's grown into the role. Yeah he | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
has. And the combination of him and Mulgrew has been superb this season. | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
They find the right balance in combination. | :05:26. | :06:05. | |
It's not the worst ball. Into a decent area. But nobody just able to | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
get on at the far post. Quarter of an hour left. So far it's been | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
Linfield's day. So far Jamie Mulgrew's day. He powers past Lyons. | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
Another player goes into the book. Probably the right decision from the | :06:30. | :06:30. | |
referee. He was tempted to go into the | :06:31. | :06:45. | |
challenge. Those are the occasions when you have to stay on your feet. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
He's been struggling with injury. He maybe hasn't given all-action | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
performance that we're used to seeing from him. He's missed a lot | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
of football. It's difficult coming back in. Especially when you've | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
missed games and the intensity of this match. It's a big pitch at | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
Windsor as well. He certainly hasn't played badly. Maybe just hasn't hit | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the heights he was hitting a couple of months ago. Certainly one of the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
most exciting players in the Irish League. Brad Lyons, a young man with | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
a big future ahead of him. Still only 19. There's Jorell Johnson | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
doing exactly what -- Chris Johns doing exactly what we talked about, | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
the quick restarts. Nvment He does that so often, wins free kicks and | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
turns to attack spaces. Low centre of gravity. Draws so many fouls. | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Perfect for Linfield 13 minutes to go now and just killing any momentum | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
that Coleraine have been able to build up. The game becomes a bit | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
stop-start. It's hard to pick up. Jamie has been reknew Nated in many | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
ways under David Healy. He had his testimonial season last year at | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Windsor Park. As he shows in this example, he never gives up. He | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
always gives an option. He's part of the starting 11. There was a feeling | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
he had fallen out of favour. Now he's wearing the arm band is in the | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
season of his career. A little bit hesitant. In the end | :08:24. | :08:40. | |
that hesitation meant Linfield can get back in numbers. He was | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
reluctant to come across his body and shoot with his right foot. Good | :08:47. | :09:01. | |
play by McGonigle. We're about to enter the last ten minutes. | :09:02. | :09:14. | |
The goalkeeper got in the way. Matthew Clarke in acres of space on | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
the far side. Instead Coleraine on the attack. | :09:21. | :09:34. | |
No real movement on the side line. Linfield are making a change. I | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
think he is any way. I think they handed a paper over the fourth | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
official. I think it could be Cameron Stewart getting the call. | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
Would you expect Aaron Burns to be brought off or Paul Smyth. Could be | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
Paul Smyth as well. He's missed football as well. Maybe just look to | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
sure things up a little bit. Cameron Stewart offers a different type of | :10:10. | :10:10. | |
threat. No card for the official. It looks | :10:11. | :10:28. | |
as if Linfield won't be in a mad hurry. We do enter the last ten | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
minutes of the game. 2-0 ahead. Two goals from Andrew Waterworth. After | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
a remarkable season, David Healy's men could well be treble winners. It | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
certainly looks that one unless there are late heroics from | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Coleraine. I think Jordan Allan is going to | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
come on for Coleraine. Last throw of the dice. | :11:05. | :11:26. | |
Smyth goes down under the challenge of Ogilby. A case of little and | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
large. Ogilby and Smyth. That change coming up is going to be Aaron Burns | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
sacrificed in place of Cameron Stewart. | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
He makes his way off the field. Jordan Allan is set to come on for | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
Coleraine. Ease going to replace McGonigle. A bit surprising that | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
they're talking off a front player at this poipt. -- point. You'd think | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
with just coming up to eight minutes of normal time left, we could have | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
went three and hoped for the best. Eight minutes for Coleraine to find | :12:15. | :12:25. | |
something. I think they'll be pleased with their performance in | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
the second half. They've given it a bit a go. Yeah, they haven't been | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
able to create too many chances but they've been at a higher intensity | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
than the first half. If they look back on it, regrets will be in the | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
first half. The thing that can't be forgotten is | :12:44. | :12:56. | |
that it has been a fantastic campaign. Finishing third in the | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
Premiership with so many young players, getting back into Europe, | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Oran Kearney and his players have a lot to be proud of this season. | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
They've certainly achieved. It's been a successful season. They'll | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
come away from this Cup Final, look like Linford are going to deservedly | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
win the game today. The disappointment of losing this final, | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
they can certainly look at a successful season as well. It has | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
been a good year. With so many young players in theacle rain squad as | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
well, it only bodes well for the future. I mention six starters under | :13:36. | :13:47. | |
21. Don't think it's going to be Jimmy Nesbitt's day, having been | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
such an integral part of the success in 2003. He'll be very, very proud | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
of what his club have achieved this season. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
Hoping for more success in the future. Not only yet though. There's | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
still time. Of -- still time. Linfield have pushed up in the last | :14:07. | :14:25. | |
couple of minutes. Making it very difficult for Coleraine to put the | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
defence under pressure. Not too many options. They go short to Allan. His | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
flick doesn't work out. It is picked up by Waterworth. It's been | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
quietened off in the second half after that electric 45 minutes. | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
He works hard, Waterworth. Picked up the ball there and really just | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
inside his own half. Coming up to the last five minutes | :15:03. | :15:15. | |
and picking up a free kick. The day becomes stop and start and that | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
suits them. In the danger area. Smyth! It was Niall Quinn who went | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
close to making it three. It was a great delivery from Smyth. Again, | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
Johns gets caught beneath it. Heading it down but to perfectly | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
down because it goes over the bar. A yellow card for Eoin Bradley. That | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
is following another tussle with Mark Stafford. It has been a | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
frustrating day for Coleraine, overall. It just has not happened | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
for them but as Chris says, certainly the second half | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
performance is much improved. The damage was done in the first half. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
But the fans have enjoyed themselves regardless and fantastic to see so | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
many young supporters here. Coleraine were given a guard of | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
honour. The supporters turned up this morning to wish them well. | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
Waterworth's go was blocked. There is a growing momentum around | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
Coleraine. Bigger crowds, and they are enjoying the football being | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
played and enjoying the fact it is young Coleraine players lining up | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
for the local club. They will learn from this experience. They will come | :16:45. | :16:55. | |
away with the obvious disappointment, but they will have | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
enjoyed the experience and they will want more of these types of | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
experiences. Certainly you can learn from defeat and how you respond and | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
they are a young side. Speaking to the Linfield players and coaching | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
staff, over the past week, it hurts them losing last year against | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
Glenavon. Paul Smyth on the attack. Waterworth! He secures a hat-trick. | :17:22. | :17:35. | |
He will leave with the match ball. Linfield will leave with the Irish | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Cup. It is the first hat-trick in an Irish Cup decider since Billy | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
McIlroy in 1969. Andy Waterworth has rewritten the history books. From | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
one goal-scorer to another, David Healy can now enjoy the moment. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Super play by Paul Smyth. He kept his head up and picked out the run | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
of Waterworth in the middle. That was the cherry on top. Andy's eyes | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
would have lit up as the move developed because Coleraine had been | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
caught. The ball in behind for Smyth. Waterworth's pace would | :18:21. | :18:30. | |
always win him front post position. He is not going to miss that. Great | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
play by Smyth. Waterworth banking a hat-trick and putting himself in the | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
history books. Paul Smyth being replaced by Chris Casement. I think | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
that is well done to Paul Smyth by the manager David Healy. He deserves | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
the ovation he got coming off the pitch. That is something he has | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
improved, Paul Smyth, the end product, getting his head up. You | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
see players in that position many times, and you talk about players in | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
the English Premiership, they get into positions and make bad | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
decisions, play simple passes and get them wrong. Smyth has twice got | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
into areas. The first one, a deflection, but he lifted his head | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
and put it is a good area. That looks easy from here, but in a | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
pressure situation it becomes difficult. 30 goals this season for | :19:31. | :19:40. | |
Andy Waterworth. What a way to conclude the campaign. I do not | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
think there will be too much argument over the Man of the Match. | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
That is the graphic picked by our panel. Andy Waterworth, Man of the | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
Match. A hat-trick for him. A day to remember for Waterworth. He is 31 | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
and he has won the Irish Cup before, but this time might the extra sweet. | :20:09. | :20:18. | |
Harkin winning the free kick. Andy Waterworth's name has just been | :20:19. | :20:34. | |
mentioned over the tannoy. As the fourth official indicates there will | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
be three additional minutes. They will seem like three hours for the | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Coleraine players, but it will be three minutes to savour for | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
Linfield. It has been their day, it has been their season. They can now | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
play champion football. Every single pass is being cheered. It is a day | :21:01. | :21:12. | |
the fans love being a part of, so to the players. From the suits, to the | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
breakfasts, to the celebrations. It is a showpiece occasion. Chris | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
Casement found space, but that touch let him down. A brilliant period of | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
play from Linfield. They seem determined to get a fourth. | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
Coleraine's legs have probably gone and their heads have rather bleak, | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
as well. Linfield are playing with lots of confidence. Coleraine | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
probably just want the whistle to go. They will be glad to get the | :21:50. | :22:00. | |
game over with at this point. From a Linfield perspective, they lost here | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
on the 3rd of January two Coleraine. At that stage, most people thought | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
the race for the title was over at that early stage. They have won 18, | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
19 games in the league and have gone on this cup run. They won the | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
shields. What can you say about this Linfield squad from the turn of the | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
year till now? It has been practically perfect. One blot was | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
the game at Portadown. It has been an incredible run and they deserve | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
the credit. To win a treble in any season... There are four trophies to | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
go for and to win three is a fantastic season. The domestic | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
double is an unbelievable achievement. To come from the | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
position they were in. They kept going and going. Great belief and | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
confidence has come. That belief has to come from within and David Healy | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
has to take a lot of credit. Of course he does, as do the players. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
They are the ones who have to go out and win the games and keep going and | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
going. It has been an incredible five months from January until now. | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
They have been relentless. They are deserved champions and they deserve | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
to win the day. 3-0 and a deserved 3-0. I think the referee has his | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
whistle, he is ready to call it a day. And Linfield and Andy | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Waterworth can start the celebrations. A shake off the hands | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
between both sets of management teams, but Linfield are top of the | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
tree once again. They have dominated the season in local football. He | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
will dominate the headlines tomorrow. A trio of finishes from | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
Andy Waterworth. The hurt from last year will be replaced by the joy and | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
elation of 2017. Heartbreak for Coleraine. It was not to be their | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
day. But what a season for Oran Kearney's side. European football | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
will beckon next year. His young squad still have plenty to offer. | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
But Andy Waterworth, the hero for Linfield. Their number seven, 30 | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
goals this season. He goes straight towards the Linfield fans. They have | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
deserved it, Chris. They produced on the big day. No doubt they were the | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
better team. 2-0 up at half-time, the job was pretty much done. But a | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
contained second-half performance and your reference to the cherry on | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
the cake, Waterworth's third goal. To score a hat-trick in a cup final, | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
and last week. What an incredible season for him. Scoring those goals | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
but they have won three medals. Certainly he and all these players | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
will look back on this season with great memories and happiness. | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
Waterworth has certainly delivered on the big day but spare a thought | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
for the Coleraine players and fans. They have gone towards their home | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
fans but the final score, 3-0, Linfield. | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
We have the Man of the Match here. Congratulations, how does it feel? I | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
am on top of the world. After last week's celebrations, I thought I | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
overcooked it a little bit because I felt bad in that game today. But to | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
win a trouble this year, is great. I love the Irish Cup, it has been good | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
to me. What do you remember about the goals? I got across the front, | :26:31. | :26:40. | |
the last two times I didn't. Well done by young Paul Smyth, who | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
assisted me twice today. I got across the front. The third one, | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
Paul Smyth did all the work and I got there in the end. It is a great | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
feeling and I am delighted for the fans. I am delighted for the manager | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
and players. You have won the Cup before, but what does it mean to win | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
it with Linfield after a barren spell? It has been hard going. The | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
boys have felt it. In Linfield, you live in the shadow of former past | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
glories and it is nice to put it right and hopefully we can push on | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
now. You can step out of the shadows any day but eight in three games, | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
you must be wishing the summer was postponed. I feel like Benjamin | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
Button. I hope it continues. Commiserations to Coleraine. I know | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
how it is to lose in an Irish Cup final but I am sure they will be | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
back stop I am sure it will be the best thing for them. Last year we | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
were beaten and it was the best thing for us. Can your team kick on | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
and rule the roost? I think that is what we are feeling. Winning this | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
year. That is what was needed, the experience and maturity. I think we | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
have that and we want to kick on now, we do not want to rest on our | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
laurels. I am proud to be in this club and I want to win trophies and | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
hopefully that continues. We have kept you away from celebrations long | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
enough. Congratulations, you are Man of the Match. | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
Back to the studio. They are singing, and well they might be. | :28:34. | :28:41. | |
One, two, three for Andy Waterworth. And one, two, three for the Blues, | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
landing the treble and David Healy following the of David Jeffrey. They | :28:48. | :28:54. | |
deserved it. I am delighted for David Healy and for the players. | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
Those people may be doubting David at one part of the season, words of | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
encouragement were always there for him but he has done tremendously | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
well. Very much the siege mentality, which is what you have to do. The | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
reality is that if you do not love and support Linfield, you do not | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
particularly like them. Roy Carroll. He has done a fabulous job. He is a | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
history maker but what he brought today was phenomenal. He did not | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
really have anything to do but he had such an influence on the game | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
and when Coleraine came into it. There is big Gary. The kit man. I am | :29:37. | :29:46. | |
delighted for him. Roy Carroll joins Billy Scott, the Linfield keeper in | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
1902, Jackie Milburn and Delaney. I think we can hear from Jamie Mulgrew | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
the skipper. You are right, the winning captain | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
Jamie Mulgrew. What does it feel like to get your hands on the Cup | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
again? Very special. We knew what we had to do today. Against a very good | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
Coleraine side. If we did not perform the way we have, in the past | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
19 games, we would have had egg on our face. I thought in the first | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
half we hit the ground running and took advantage of our dominance. How | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
much has that momentum helps you the last couple of games? Winning the | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
league in dramatic circumstances, it must give you huge confidence? | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
Absolutely. The run has been incredible and confidence is a | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
massive thing in sport. We have that in abundance at the minute. From the | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
results and the run we have been on. We have grown together as a team | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
after disappointment last year. We have learned from disappointments. A | :30:54. | :31:00. | |
word for the manager who got stick early in the season but he has had a | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
good season, the treble to finish with. What influence has he been? | :31:05. | :31:11. | |
The evidence is there. We have won three trophies and it shows the | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
influence on us as a squad. He and the staff work incredibly hard and | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
they expect us to work incredibly hard and we have done that. He set | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
the work ethic and we have bounced off that and bought into it. Just | :31:28. | :31:34. | |
before you go, how does this compare to the cups you have won before? | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
They are all very special. I could not pick out any to be my number | :31:42. | :31:48. | |
one. All I can say is I am fortunate enough to have won trophies here, | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
with many great players and been managed by very good managers. I am | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
thankful for that. I will let you prepare your victory speech. David | :31:59. | :31:59. | |
Healy. David, congratulations. That must be | :32:00. | :32:11. | |
pretty sweet. It is. Considering the way we performed in last year's | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
final, we knew underachieved. It was all about redemption this week. | :32:17. | :32:19. | |
Sometimes in football you don't ever get the opportunity to redeem | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
yourselves in Cup Finals. Fortunately for us, because these | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
players are good enough, we gave ourselves an opportunity after 12 | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
months, nearly to the day, to give a performance like that. By far and | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
away I thought we were the better side today. From minute one, second | :32:36. | :32:42. | |
half it became a wee bit scrappy. In all in all we were deserved winners | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
today. Jamie spoke about the confidence and momentum, 19 games | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
unbeaten, coming into The Cup Final. Was that crucial? It makes it easier | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
but these players have had so much to prove. Because everybody had | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
written them off. We ended up the season with three trophies, as | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
manager of this club I'm so privileged, honoured to be the | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
manager of such a group of players and the calibre of players out here. | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
The football was as good as I've seen in a long time. The hat-trick | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
from Andrew Waterworth. He does that. He did it last week. He talked | :33:17. | :33:24. | |
about Andy says he had one of his poorer season, 24 goals. I said you | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
only need two hat tricks to get to 30. So that's why, you know Andy has | :33:28. | :33:32. | |
done that for years and years in this league. He's renowned for | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
doing. It he's got the ability to do it and what a day for him. It's been | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
a dramatic week for you and the club. Did you have any concerns | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
about that short run around from winning the league to having to | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
prepare for The Cup Final? Sometimes a short turn around makes it easier. | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
Instead of waiting three, four weeks, the momentum slides a bit. We | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
had the momentum coming in from last week. Fair play to the players | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
today. We'd like to thank Oran and Coleraine and all the Coleraine | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
people. The season they've had and Oran's been here, Stephen Douglas, | :34:08. | :34:14. | |
I'm sure they'll bounce back. They're youthful. With a bit of | :34:15. | :34:17. | |
experience, they're a good club. They'll be challenging again next | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
year. Congratulations on a fantastic season, David. It's up to Thomas. | :34:21. | :34:27. | |
The Linfield players are making their way towards the cup. Coleraine | :34:28. | :34:38. | |
have already received their medals. Roy Carroll is going to enjoy this | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
moment. Had a ball last week lifting the league. A little touch of the | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
cup. Last week he tried to grab the cup, but a shake of the hands from | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
Michael O'Neill. He's achieved just about everything in the game, Roy | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
Carroll. But it shows just how important it is to win this one. | :34:56. | :35:01. | |
Andrew Waterworth, the man we've all been singing the praises of | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
throughout the afternoon. A big smile on his face. # he gets ready | :35:05. | :35:14. | |
to enjoy the celebrations. There is the famous trophy. Michael O'Neill | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
saluting the goal scorer. Andy's probably looking at an international | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
call-up after that. Niall Quinn, played a strong role today. So too | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
Mark Haughey in defence. Here comes David Healy, the second last man up. | :35:31. | :35:36. | |
He attended many Irish cups as a child, supporting Linfield. Now he's | :35:37. | :35:47. | |
led them to a treble. Listen to this roar, as Jamie Mulgrew lifts the | :35:48. | :35:56. | |
Irish Cup in 2017! The streamers are flowing around Windsor Park. The | :35:57. | :36:02. | |
fans are singing. This has been Linfield's day. This has been | :36:03. | :36:11. | |
Linfield's season. This famous silverware is heading back to | :36:12. | :36:18. | |
Windsor Park one again. They've waited five years to bring the | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
trophy home. But Linfield are Irish Cup winners once again. A treble for | :36:24. | :36:34. | |
Linfield. A 3-0 win for them. Smiles on the faces of the Linfield | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
players. Roy Carroll makes his way down the steps. Let's go back to the | :36:41. | :36:51. | |
studio. Thank you also to Tim Murtagh, | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
congratulations to all concerned with Linfield. Roy Carroll has made | :36:57. | :37:04. | |
history. He has won cups in Ireland and England David Healy said he | :37:05. | :37:15. | |
hadn't seen them play that well in a first half of football this season. | :37:16. | :37:19. | |
They peaked at the right time. Coleraine didn't have it for them | :37:20. | :37:22. | |
today. They were deserved winners today from start to finish. I | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
thought Coleraine played for about 20 minutes in the second half. Too | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
little too late. Linfield dominated. Delighted for David in his first | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
proper full season at Linfield football club doing the double, in | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
terms of the big trophies and then the treble. It's a great | :37:38. | :37:40. | |
achievement. Delighted for Andrew Waterworth. He's a great guy, if | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
anybody knows him off the pitch. You couldn't have a nicer guy getting a | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
hat-trick. I guess honourable mentions for Mark Stafford and | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
Stephen Lowry, you three unanimous that Waterworth was the standout | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
manned, back-to-back hat tricks. I don't think there was a failure on | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
the Linfield team, but he rose to the top. It was interesting | :38:05. | :38:07. | |
listening to the interview, today's performance was a reaction to last | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
year, simple as that. They played for the first 20 minutes. Two great | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
saves, after that Glenavon went on and dominated. They were bitter | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
disappointed. Today they responded and how did they respond? First | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
half, they were magnificent. Totally dominant. Second half they were very | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
professional. They managed the game well. They didn't have to chase | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
things. Coleraine performed better in the second half. They didn't | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
create anything or give away Carroll under pressure. There they have it | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
in the end. Great piece of play. Andrew Waterworth attacks the box, | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
scores a third goal. For every winner there has to be a loser. A | :38:49. | :39:00. | |
Goole btant loser. A gallant loser. You've been here as a losing cup | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
manager, it's a difficult day. I was saying to the lads here beside me, | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
there's nothing worse than football and picking up the losers' medal. | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
You build up in the morning, you come up and full of joy and delight | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
to be in the final. Then it's all over and you have the losers' medal | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
in your hand. We can hear from Oran Kearney now. | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
The Coleraine manager, Oran Kearney. Tough day for your side. | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
Commiserations. It is, yes. Obviously the elation of joy in | :39:32. | :39:34. | |
getting to a final, you want to go and try and win it, today it wasn't | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
to be, congratulations to Linfield, on the day, especially in the first | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
half, there was a 20 minute spell where we couldn't cope. The damage | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
was done then. That's just it, those two goals were hammer blows to you. | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
They were because I felt we had started the game quite well maybe. | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
You look at the compartments of the game and the first 20 was the one | :39:57. | :39:59. | |
that concerned me the most. We dealt with that well. It was just that ten | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
minute spell where we couldn't string a pass or two together and we | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
were camped in our own half. That's done the damage. You maybe surprised | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
our pundits with the ambitious team with three forwards. You can't have | :40:15. | :40:17. | |
regrets about. It what was your thinking about it? Cup Finals are | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
about winning. To beat a side like Linfield in a Cup Final, you have to | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
score a goal. We needed as much fire power on the pitch as possible. | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
Jimmy's played on the right for a big part of the season, James and | :40:32. | :40:39. | |
Skinner up front. You have to give yourself half a chance of winning | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
it. For big parts of the second half, Linfield didn't know whether | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
to stick or twist. We were well in, not well in the game, but it was | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
unof those, if we got a goal, possibly something could have | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
changed. Thank you for joining us so quickly after the game. Back to the | :40:56. | :40:58. | |
studio. Thanks to Oran Kearney for fronting | :40:59. | :41:06. | |
up. I think it was 48 years ago a certain Billy McAvoy the last to get | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
a hat-trick. He took it so well. Yeah, once again, young Smyth who I | :41:12. | :41:18. | |
rate highly got down the lane. Looked up, a simple task of tapping | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
it in the net. The experience of being in the right place. He done | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
the same last week and picked up a hat-trick. His confidence is at the | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
top level now. It's about timing the run and the final pass. They | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
thoroughly deserved everything they got today. Linfield, I thought Healy | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
hole would have taken longer to settle in. He's hit the ground | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
running. I'm going to give you ten seconds apiece. Think, you'd have | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
been proud of that, Linfield's day and season. Yeah, strikers have to | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
be in the box to score goals. I harp on to our players all the time. They | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
don't seem to listen all the time. Andy in the box three times. The | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
ball is delivered and three goals for him. You score the goals and | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
earn your money zblrchlt can you see David Healy reign as long as you did | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
here? Pleased and delighted for David today. I've known him for many | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
years. Know him as a king. I'm delighted for the king today. Thank | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
you very much. Monday evening for you more local footy on the radio, | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
BBC Radio Ulster, and online, that's from 7. 30pm. The summer slumber now | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
for local football. The giant that is the Ulster champions is about to | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
stir. Watch all the action on the BBC: That's just about it. | :42:33. | :42:43. | |
Congratulations to Linfield. Tennants Irish Cup winners 2017. | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
From everyone at BBC Sport NI team, Marty, David, Gary and me, bye-bye. | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
Andrew Waterworth, what exactly is he worth? He is worth his weight in | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
gold by one, two and three. From everyone on the team, have a good | :42:58. | :42:59. | |
summer, bye-bye. Cheers, lads. | :43:00. | :43:06. |