ROSCOMMON MANAGER JOHN Evans believes that his players were hindered by the success enjoyed by his team earlier in the year.
The Division Two league champions were shocked by the Yeats men in Markiveicz Park on Saturday evening when they crashed to a four point defeat in the first provincial shock of the year.
Evans said in an interview with the Roscommon Herald that the success of winning both the FBD League and the Division Two title got to his players and they began to believe the hype that was surrounding them in the build-up.
“Sligo were by far the hungrier team, there’s no doubt about that. As I said to our own lads in the dressingroom, we tried to hide the fact that we had two cups (FBD League and Division Two league) in the bag,” said Evans.
“I suppose we tried to hide the cups and the bag to soften the blow. We were put up on a bit of a mantle to be taken down. But full credit to Sligo, they had us in all departments. The big factor was their hunger. They hadn’t been fed in a long, long time.”
Evans admitted that the management team did actually hide the trophies they won earlier in the year in a bag to try and keep the player’s mind’s off their own success.
It does get through to the players. What do you do when you have success? You win a couple of finals and a couple of trophies, and it puts you up on a pedestal. You try to mind the players from that.
“We did actually put the cups away. We put them into a bag and we didn’t go near them but that still doesn’t give you the cutting edge.”
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I was in Croker on Sunday screaming my throat raw for the Rebels, but hats off to the Dubs, they have a quality team. Some fantastic play and lovely scores out of them. Actually thought they had the winning of it till the sending off. Even then, they were dangerous till the end.
Look forward to seeing more of them next year.
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Michele
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So pleased Cork won. All this hype about Dublin teams gives me a pain in the colon::-)
John. With respect…you haven’t a clue about hurling…to make a comment like that…this year will be remembered ..in the same regard as the mid nineties.. ..a great year for gaa..
Did u read any of the papers that week,on the front page of the star there was an article about Dublin hurling and on the back page,it’s bias journalism towards Dublin gaa,always has and always will,when Kerry last won the all Ireland there was a two page article about Dublin football in the Sunday world,tell me any losing team in a final that gets more coverage than a winning team
Most of the media coverage this week has all been about Dublin hurling,people would swear that they beat Cork,teams that beat Dublin in hurling and football never get the proper recognition,
Im sure the rebels will get plenty of recognition if they bring back liam to cork town !
john so true! and same after the Kilkenny game but it doesn’t really matter when Liam comes home in Srptember!!!!
Really hope Clare win Liam now
This fella griffiths has ideas about himself. Lots of ideas
I thought it was more of a semi-colon, myself.