Doyle dwells on positives

Wexford manager JJ Doyle found ways of easing the pain of defeat at Semple Stadium.

First and foremost was the realisation that his men had come up against something special in the grade. That and the fact that his charges had never thrown in the towel against the champions.

“As hard as it is to take getting beaten, it’s a little bit easier when you know the quality of the opposition,” the Wexford manager reflected. “Everything we threw at them, we just couldn’t get back to within any more than three points of them. We kept throwing things at them but they kept responding and that’s the mark of champions, that’s the mark of class players and that’s exactly what they have.