Ger Rogan's Derry hurlers may be inexperienced but they've also got some quality.

Boasting an average age of just 22, the inexperienced Oak Leafers were left hanging on for a narrow 1-11 to 1-10 victory over Wicklow in the Christy Ring Cup at Owenbeg on Saturday.

The manager had mixed feelings after the win:

"That's a seriously young outfit and it showed in the way we let the game go because we let our composure go in the last ten minutes," the Rossa clubman says in The Irish News.

"We were five or six points up and should have driven on but that's when the more experienced hurlers would drive the younger players on.

"We wanted them to play one-on-one the whole way round the field and had we done that I think we would have taken them on.

"We showed in the first ten minutes of the first half the quality of hurling that we have played and that we could expose them, but we allowed ourselves to be dragged in. That is down to experience.

"The younger players in particular need to learn that when you have an advantage you have to use it. It suited Wicklow to drag it into rucks and mauls because physically they were much stronger than we were and our lads didn't cop on." Tweet

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