Horan: If we had ducks they’d have drowned

IT was one of those days managers dread, when everything that can go wrong does. Maurice Horan knows that feeling only too well after Saturday night.

“It sounds ridiculous now but we were quietly confident, even without John Galvin and Stephen Lucey, going into this game. We felt if we got on the front foot that we would cause them problems. But we didn’t,” said Horan.

“We had a terrible start and didn’t settle into the game at all. They didn’t miss any chances but we knew that they would be very efficient with their chances. We were under serious pressure. “We couldn’t plug the hole in the dam at all. It wasn’t even a dam. The dam had come crashing down early, to be honest. Twenty minutes into the game we were really on the back foot. We struggled at midfield, either in the air or to get the breaks.”