Kieran McGeeney’s team had enough of losing and designed a gameplan to keep Galway at arm’s length throughout a tense and dogged final
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“When they refused to be beaten, even though we were trying our best to beat ourselves in that five or six minutes, there was fellas like Ben , everybody, throwing their bodies on the line just to win and to refuse that once more. Hopefully, as it did with us back in the day, it can change and you can have a bit of a bounce off that. I hope this county does. But they’ll have a week to celebrate first.
“We’re absolutely devastated,” said Joyce when he came in. “The dressing room is in an awful state. Firstly, congratulations to Armagh and congratulations to Kieran McGeeney on the job he’s done with them. You can’t take that away from them. They won the game. We have to be realistic here. We didn’t play anywhere near to our potential in the second half. We probably made more mistakes in the second half than we’ve made in all the games all year.
“That is how counties like ours work. You get waves of players and you are trying to keep those older players. I am hoping this particular win will make those particular players stay on for another year … You are just hoping those players will stay together to pull that next wave through until that age group become the elder statesman.”
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