Rossies feel they can now got the distance

There was just 8,654 at last weekend’s Allianz FL Division 3 and 4 finals, ensuring that Croke Park was quiet and cavernous all evening.

The Roscommon U21 football panel made quite a din though as they roared their county seniors on to what was an unexpected and courageous Division 3 win over favourites Cavan.

Senior manager John Evans was without half a dozen of those U21 players who he would ordinarily have called upon while several more players were out injured. Roscommon would battle those odds, however, to come out on top against the 2013 All-Ireland quarter-finalists and claim a rare piece of national silverware at Croke Park.