Fronting up to the critics

IT WAS a tough few days afterwards, guys trying to get over it — you’re playing things over and over in your head. More than anything though, a lot of us felt that we left people down, the manner in which we lost.

You’d think you could close out a game like that but we didn’t, and that’s very disappointing.

It had all started out so well, everything that went on before the kick-off — an amazing experience, I have to say that. You think you know what to expect, but you don’t. We had trained in Croke Park a couple of times already, but it was empty on all those occasions – this was different.