Team co-captain relishing daunting challenge that awaits in Croke Park on Sunday
“It’s a massive challenge, but we’ll relish it,” he says. “I don’t know how many All Stars they have, but they are the standard bearers of club hurling, an unbelievable team. Every club hurler’s dream is to play in an All-Ireland final, we’re in that lucky position now, looking forward to Sunday, and what will be will be.
There’s an air of fearlessness about Elliott, co-captain with Paul Shiels, which is justified: he kept a clean sheet against St Thomas’s and also the Ulster final win over Slaughtneil, the Derry champions and All-Ireland winners twice in the past.“To be fair to him, he leaves me be, to be myself. Maybe from his past experiences, he kind of knows the craic, maybe he didn’t want boys in his ear. But he’s always good if anyone asks him for a bit of help.
“Aye, and they like to remind you that they have two of them, but we’re a different team after that. We were the underdogs going into the Ulster final, although we didn’t see it that way, felt we were good enough to win, Sunday is a different day again, but we don’t read into what the bookies say, or the media.
“But to get over Sleightneil, that was massive, they’re a phenomenal team, and the confidence we got from that, the shackles were off.”
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