Cappry Rovers will face one of the longest journey’s before Sunday’s FAI New Balance Junior Cup games, as they travel 360km to Kilkenny to face 2017 finalist Evergreen FC.
An away trip is never an easy task for many a team, but the fact that Cappry boss Paddy McNulty and his side were unable to make the journey down a day prior to the game – travelling down at 6:30am this morning – is taxing.
With another daunting away trip on the horizon, the Cappry boss knows all too well how troublesome this match may prove for his depleted squad.
“It’s going to be extremely difficult, we are missing six key players, but they were also in the final two years ago so, we know they are a good side,” McNulty said.
“We had them looked at last week and they are going to be hard to overturn at home.”
However, McNulty’s side secured their place in the last 32 with a gruelling 4-3 victory over Carlow’s New Oak Boys in December.
And McNulty revealed that the club requested that the game be changed to a Saturday, but their appeal was knocked back, with their opponents were not flexible as originally hoped.
“The boys know that it’s going to be a hard-fought game and we have to travel down at 6:30am because some of the lads have work and other commitments on Saturday night.
“And with that, some of them could be working to the earlier hours of Saturday morning, which isn’t ideal,” he added.
“We tried to get the game changed to a Saturday rather than the Sunday, but Evergreen wouldn’t change the days.
“But we’ll give it a go, we still have a good team going down to Kilkenny, that’s why we have a big squad, we have 18-20 lads going down.
“We’re not going down there to throw the towel in that’s for sure.”
