Oisín McConville was confident going into extra-time

Crossmaglen joint-manager, Oisín McConville, felt his team would succeed in extra-time. He believed the Armagh champions would the better of the two in regrouping for the 20 minutes of extra-time.

“Don’t ask me about anything that happened in the first 60 minutes, because I don’t have that good a memory! We were very poor in the second-half. We almost paid the ultimate price. I have to say that, in extra-time, we were very, very good. We were tuned in and we realised what we were after doing in that second 30 minutes, when we got a grip at the end of the game.

“I never had any doubt we would win it. It’s easy for me to say now, but there was a time when I thought we were a lot more focussed. We got our match-ups a wee bit better towards the end of the game.”