Dowd provides timeline on St. Brigid's players' return

Mark Dowd has confirmed that Brian Stack and Eddie Nolan are set to miss the majority of the Rossies' Division One League campaign through injury.

However, some of the St. Brigid's players may be in a position to feature for Roscommon's third league game against Armagh at King and Moffatt Dr. Hyde Park on Valentine's weekend.

Speaking in the aftermath of Roscommon's narrow one-point loss against Kerry in Killarney on Sunday afternoon, Dowd said that he would have to be "smart" with the Brigid's players, and that he wanted them coming into the team "firing on all cylinders".

"Regarding the Brigid’s lads, we have to be smart with them. They’re after coming through a long campaign, they will be getting a couple of weeks off. 

"The likes of Brian Stack and Eddie Nolan are carrying injuries, so we’ll be looking at a seven or eight-week lay-off for them. We’ve got to get them right because we want them back firing on all cylinders.

"For some of the other Brigid’s lads, the Armagh game is probably a realistic target. Maybe one or two might need a little bit longer.

"The two Strokestown lads (Colm Neary and Shane McGinley) only came back in last week, so it would have been unfair on them to bring them into something like this today without a level of work done," he said.