Youthful Roscommon will be happier at replay chance

Galway 0-13 Roscommon 1-10: Opportunity lost for Galway, opportunity gained for Roscommon.

Of the 20 Roscommon footballers who saw action yesterday, 13 were playing in their first Connacht senior final. Nine of said crop are aged 23 or younger so you can imagine their sense of satisfaction, and that of their management, that they will get a second bite of the cherry next weekend and not have to travel to their opponents’ backyard in the process.

More pleasing still was the manner in which Roscommon’s emerging bunch earned a second bite. Having played with the Salthill gale in the opening period, the visitors shuffled back down the tunnel at half-time 1-6 to 0-6 in front.