McGeeney: referee made it exciting game in second-half

KIERAN McGEENEY praised a referee yesterday but the Kildare boss had his tongue planted firmly in his cheek when offering kudos to Pat Fox for making this game exciting by giving DCU a host of scoreable frees.

Donie Shine supplied all bar one of his side’s scores and seven of them came from frees, with his county colleague Cathal Cregg providing DCU’s only point from play in the 29th minute.

“In the second-half we were very sloppy with our shooting, but in fairness to Pat Fox I thought he made a good game of it and gave Donie plenty of practice,” said McGeeney afterwards. I’d like to see the stats. I think we got one free kick inside the 50. I thought Pat Fox made it an exciting game in the second-half.”