Slaughtneil’s day as Stacksfeels the pain

AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final: Slaughtneil (Derry) 1-14 Austin Stacks (Kerry) 2-10: Margins don’t come much finer, but Austin Stacks won’t need a microscope to detect where they went wrong here.

And Stephen Stack is right — Shane Carroll shouldn’t be the fall guy.

Sure, had he converted his 60th minute free, the Kerry and Munster champions may well have redeemed themselves in what was left on the clock or even in extra-time. At the same time, had he lofted it over the bar it would have papered over a lot of the cracks.