Morris: Big occasion won't faze Wexford
July 17, 2008

Wexford captain Colm Morris
Wexford captain Colm Morris insists his team won't be fazed by the task of facing Dublin in front of over 80,000 fans at Croke Park on Sunday.
Despite appearing in their first Leinster SFC final in 52 years, Morris believes Wexford have plenty of "big-game experience", having played in five successive provincial semi-finals and a NFL final against Armagh three years ago. One of those Leinster semi-finals, in 2005, was against Dublin which was watched by over 82,000 spectators.
"We've been in a string of Leinster semi-finals and we played in a Division 1 league final in Croke Park in 2005," the corner back said.
"Okay, we didn't win any of them until this year, but the big difference from then is that we've a nucleus of players now that have been through the mill.
"We've more experience in Croke Park in the last five years than we had in the previous 10, so it's not really strange to us."
The Castletown clubman claims Wexford's self-belief is a lot stronger now than it was in 2005 when they let Dublin off the hook in their last championship meeting.
"When Jason Sherlock got that goal, he finished us because it was such a big game for us and we hadn't the experience of beating the top teams at the time.
"But now we've beaten Meath and we've come back in a lot of games that we were behind in. I think lads will be a lot more positive if we do lose a goal at a critical stage now, the heads won't drop anymore.
"If we can play against Dublin this time as a unit, the way that Westmeath played against them, and capitalise on all our scoring chances, we have every chance."
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