{"id":10499,"date":"2022-05-31T03:50:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T03:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10499"},"modified":"2024-12-05T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T10:59:23","slug":"as-we-raise-the-bar-we-hope-that-everything-else-follows-dublin-star-hails-recent-positive-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10499","title":{"rendered":"‘As we raise the bar, we hope that everything else follows’ – Dublin star hails recent positive moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EVERYTHING IS ON the up, says Dublin star Carla Rowe.<\/p>\n

Recent positive developments have ladies football in a good place, she believes.<\/p>\n

In the past few weeks, major news has been announced with male and female inter-county players set for equal Government funding, while matchday travel expenses will be covered through the Lidl Ladies National Football League.<\/p>\n

The recent GPA merger is another landmark move, with strides made off the pitch now starting to match those made on it.<\/p>\n

It must be said that the standard of the game has risen a huge amount, with Mick Bohan\u2019s Dublin front and centre to that rise, placing much more emphasis on basic skills, as ever-increasing physicality, speed and intensity make it it a much more attractive game to watch.<\/p>\n

Media coverage and sponsorship has also increased ten-fold, resulting in higher interest and improving attendances. Everything certainly is on the up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe LGFA and Lidl coming in there is kind of hand-in-hand, the development has been unbelievable,\u201d Rowe nods. \u201cBetween just exposure alone, and the WGPA, looking to increase the support around the sport for females.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking to constantly raise the bar and as we raise the bar obviously, we hope that everything else follows \u2014 along with other teams raising the bar \u2014 and if we keep doing that, we keep developing our game which is fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

While Dublin open their Division 1 league campaign against Waterford at Parnell Park this weekend, they will grace the turf of P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh for the first time on 29 May.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first time a Sky Blues ladies team will line out at the Leeside venue, and it\u2019s an opportunity Rowe is relishing\u00a0as they face arch-rivals Cork. \u2014 along with, pivotally, another step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s brilliant. I suppose levelling the playing field<\/em> probably jumps into my mind, the fact that we haven\u2019t been there before, you\u2019d scratch your head and wonder why, it\u2019s so many years we\u2019ve been around but for us to be here, it\u2019s all about development and looking forward and taking positives.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery excited, can\u2019t wait to get down and see it and I know it is a fantastic stadium so looking forward to playing there and, again, a closer step to having a level playing field.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what we want,\u201d she adds. \u201cAs ladies footballers, footballers, in those big stadiums, we want as many big games as we can in the Croke Parks, in the P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimhs, Semple Stadium and to be starting the year in big venues is a standard bearer and that\u2019s where we want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

2020 Footballer of the Year nominee Rowe also offered an update on Sin\u00e9ad Goldrick\u2019s injury, as the seven-time All-Star currently rehabilitates in Australia.<\/p>\n

The Melbourne FC Aussie Rules star underwent surgery on a hamstring injury in late March and missed the close of the AFLW season, but Dublin are \u201chopeful\u201d of having her back in the fold at some stage soon.<\/p>\n

\n Goldrick in action for Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Source: AAP\/PA Images<\/p>\n

\u201cA bit of an update that she\u2019s doing her rehab so working away strongly at that and obviously 100% committed to it so not too much but that\u2019s positive for now,\u201d Rowe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not sure of a date, I\u2019m not sure of a date myself of when she\u2019s coming home because for now I\u2019m just personally focusing on getting myself ready but for now, I think it\u2019s positive enough that she\u2019s rehabbing away and hopefully that gives her enough time.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is a tight timeframe but we\u2019d be hopeful,\u201d she added, with their other AFLW players Lauren Magee and Niamh McEvoy \u2014 who recently called time on her Melbourne stint \u2014 back in harness:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had Lauren and Niamh in there at the weekend so that\u2019s two in which is brilliant and a huge addition to the team so, yeah, we\u2019re looking forward to getting back training with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking at the set-up elsewhere, Rowe hailed their \u201cphenomenal\u201d captain fantastic Sin\u00e9ad Aherne, and also had some kind words for new vice-skipper Niamh Collins.<\/p>\n

Foxrock-Cabinteely ace Collins is one of the best \u2014 but under-rated \u2014 defenders in the game, Rowe agrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, 100%. Mick even said it this week, she brings that doggedness, that willingness to get down into the dirt and do the dirty work which you need in your team and if you have a leader that\u2019s doing that then everyone else will follow.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo fantastic for Niamh, I\u2019m delighted for her because she\u2019s put in an incredible number of years with Dublin and has always contributed so well to the team and her leadership is brilliant so definitely one that is completely underrated.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we know what she brings to us as a team and as a panel member so looking forward to hearing and being led by her and Sin\u00e9ad.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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