THE 4 LANTERNS Ulster Senior League table has an ominous look already.
With the halfway mark in the season reached on Sunday, Cockhill Celtic got back to winning ways to open up a nine-point lead and move their title defence into a position of real strength.
Gerard McLaughlin’s match winner against Letterkenny Rovers, after Paul Boyle’s early own goal was cancelled out by a Darren McElwaine penalty, puts daylight between Gavin Cullen’s team and their rivals.
“It’s a fantastic cushion,” Cullen ackowledged.
“There is a lot of football to be played. That’s exactly half-way today. We won’t be counting our chickens. We still have a few men out, but we’ll get stronger and we’ll push on.
“This group is phenomenal. They’ve been brilliant over the years. There’s never any bother motivating them.”
Cockhill began as if affronted by the defeat to Swilly Rovers a week earlier, when they suffered a shock 3-2 home loss that was their first defeat in League football in a 72-game sequence going back to July 2012.
[adrotate group=”46″]Cullen said: “It feels like normality is back after last weekend. Our attitude wasn’t right last week, but it was spot-on today.
“All week in training, you could see the hunger was there. I though today no-one was going to live with us today.”
Listen to the full interview below …
https://soundcloud.com/donegalsporthub-club-notes/gavin-cullen-after-cockhill-win-letterkenny-rovers
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