Corofin prepare to meet st vincents

IT may have lacked the flowing, free-scoring football that has been the hallmark of their campaign but for Corofin this was a match where a win was all that counted and Stephen Rochford’s charges achieved that objective, seeing off the dogged challenge of London champions Tír Chonaill Gaels to book their place in the All-Ireland semi-finals.
The scoreline might not reflect the true story of the afternoon but for the Galway champions to look back on a below-par performance and still register a seven-point win in a tricky fixture played on a boggy, energy-sapping pitch in Ruislip shows just how high their standards have been set this season.
A Division One League final replay against Annaghdown comes next weekend before a well-earned break to recharge the batteries and prepare for the formidable challenge that St Vincent’s, the reigning All-Ireland champions, will provide on February 14th. The Marino team retained their Leinster title by defeating Rhode of Offaly, 1-13 to 0-6, on Sunday and now haven’t lost a Senior Championship match since October 2012.
The bookmakers made Corofin 1/100 to win the London match and 13-point favourites on the handicap. Those odds suggested it would be a foregone conclusion — it was anything but, and it turned into a dour struggle before the Galway champions eventually pulled away in the second half.