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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
‘It’s not over yet’ - O’Donnell
ONE COULD tell by Fergal O’Donnell’s voice that he took something substantial out of Sunday’s defeat against Antrim.
He felt that his side had competed well but bemoaned the five-point lead that Roscommon gave the visitors early on. Still he wasn’t giving up the fight and vowed that Roscommon would be doing everything in their power to pick up their first brace of league points against Louth on Sunday next.
“It was different than last week (against Offaly). We gave them a five-point head start and three of them were as a result of our mistakes.
The problem we had in the first-half is that when we scored they won the next kickout. We needed to win one or two of theirs to build a bit of momentum.
“We started the second half well. When confidence is low in a team, you miss goal chances like that. The team wobbled for a time after that but, in fairness, we finished strongly and competed well enough,” he summarised.
While the Roscommon manager wasn’t inclined to blame referee Tomas Quigley for his team’s loss, he did question a couple of the Dublin official’s decisions.
“One or two things went against us again. The decision to penalise Brian Higgins when one of their players was ages standing over the ball just amazed me to be honest. I don’t want to be blaming the referee because Antrim were that bit sharper. We were workmanlike without setting the world alight. With a bit more luck, we might have pulled something out of the game,” he felt.
Roscommon deployed their extra man in their defence when Antrim cornerback Dermot McCann was sent-off and O’Donnell was generally happy with the way his side used their extra player.
“You could see that they could open us up. We had to protect the goal because they had a bit of pace. We were doing fine with the extra man. When we missed the goal the confidence drained away for a while but we came back again and realised that the game was there for us,” he explained.
Next Sunday sees Roscommon make the trip to Drogheda for the second year in succession. Despite his side’s winless streak, O’Donnell wasn’t accepting relegation to Division Four just yet.
“All we need is a win to turn it around. If you look at the last three games, we’re not that far off the mark. There are still three games to go. We’ll be going hell for leather against Louth. It’s not over yet,” he concluded.
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