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Team Mates – Armagh’s Niamh Reel

Name:

Niamh Reel.

 

Age:

21.

 

Teams played for:

Silverbridge Harps, Armagh, Queen’s.

 

Which team mate has been the most inspirational and why?

Would have to be my club mate Mairead Tennyson, ‘Tenny’, she has helped me along from when I first started club senior football at 13 or 14 to being on the county panel now.

 

Who’s the best team mate to train with and why?

Eve Lavery – she brings the strawberries for after training.

 

Which team mate is the worst to train with and why?

Emily Druse – she’s always messing and getting told to be quiet during drills.

 

Which team mate do you want to mark in training and why?

Megan McShane – she always has the latest craic.

 

Which team mate do you dread marking in training and why?

Lauren McConville, she’s always hanging off you and will make a run up the field any chance she gets.

 

Which team mate is the best on journeys away?

Niamh Coleman – she’ll usually have a speaker and will come up with a dance routine.

 

Which team mate is the worst for journeys away?

Aoife McCoy loves a toilet stop.

 

What’s the funniest thing you’ve heard in training or in a match, and who said it?

A few years ago, Fionnuala McKenna ordered a side of chips with her meal after a game and to this day she still gets called ‘Chips.’ One of the ‘Bridge girls, Chloe Murphy, always has good one-liners. We were playing an u-16 game once and she had scored a few points. She turned around to our subs bench and shouted ‘call me butter cus I’m on a roll.’

 

What’s the worst excuse you’ve heard to get out of training?

Haven’t heard any bad excuses to be honest.

 

Which team mate is the loudest in the changing room?

Kelly Mallon.

 

Which team mate would you want standing over a last-second penalty?

Aimee Mackin – she always finishes them well.

 

Which team mate would you never want to see hitting a last-second penalty?

Sorry, but probably the goalkeepers.

 

Which team mate is the most sensible?

Fionnuala McKenna.

 

Who is the smartest of all your team mates?

Clodagh McCambridge.

 

Who’s the best team mate to celebrate with?

Brianna Mathers loves a celebratory Jägerbomb.

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IN THE HOT SEAT…Silverbridge player Niamh Reel dishes the dirt on her team mates

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STRAWBERRY EVES FOREVER….Armagh player Eve Lavery always brings the fruit with her

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