[With the firstround bye], you really won't play a meaningful game for a couple of weeks [if you don't play Sunday]. And you know, someone has to play; there's only 45 guys active each week. It's not like college when you have a 95man roster.The Falcons were visibly shaken, rattled by his accuracy and winded by their inability to get to grips with him and sack him. There was nothing they could do it was just one of those games. One of those games against a truly great player, where you are resigned to hoping, praying, pleading.

The team was Niall Curran, John Handbidge, Thomas Kelly, Liam Carpenter, Dermot Daly, Joe White. Thomas Dwyer, Ciaran Walshe (23), Mark Rigley, Kevin Miley, Shane Carthy (12), Roy Jordan, Robert Lynch (01),Robert Miley (02) and Michael Phelan. Subs were Shane O' Rourke, Ciaran O' Rourke, Mark Whelan and James Whelan.Part of it was like, boy, have we got everything in place? And I said, sir. Then he said, we played them before and have we beat them?