Doyle: it was all about getting the right result

IN the cavernous dressing-room under the impressive new Pearse Stadium covered stand, Tipp manager Michael Doyle gathered his charges around him in a tight arm-in-arm circle.

Outside the locked and guarded door, the words were muffled, unclear, but not the message. Now, one major hurdle cleared, it’s onward, upward, quarter-final in Croke Park next time out.

“Yeah, but we’re taking it one game at a time. We’ll enjoy this now, back training on Tuesday night, but you don’t see any silverware on that table there.