After watching his side ship a heavy defeat in the league final, the last thing Mayo manager Kevin Reidy would have had to want to do was to pick over the bones of the game to the waiting press pack. But with the Cork celebrations going on in the background, the Tuam native was open and honest with his assessment of the sixty minutes of football that had transpired. “I'm very disappointed with our performance today more than anything else. We never really got out of the blocks at all. We're along way off Cork at the minute, but I still think that even with the score-line today we didn't do ourselves justice. We had a couple of goal chances and we didn't preform. Cork are a fine team not taking anything away from them at all, but we didn't preform. There still up there to be knocked, but were going to have to go away and lick our wounds and come back.”
With the league now out of the way and the championship throwing in in six weeks, it's all about hard work from here on in for his side, once the return after a few weeks rest. “ We just have to get on with it you know and get back at it. You can run girls into the ground and fitness wasn't an issue there, were going to take a break for a while, recharge the batteries and we'll come back better for it. We have a lot of work to do, it's two parts the season, the league is over and the championship is next, there cab be no slacking off now on the training ground once we get at it again there can be no slacking at all. We're just disappointed in the way we played ourselves today, and there is a lot more left in us.”
Reidy has tried to introduce a number of new faces into the side and the panel this year and despite some of them maybe lacking the experience he believes that they will have learned a lot from Saturday's encounter. “ It's a panel game, we've been stressing that all year, we have 33 in the panel and if somebody comes in to play you need to be able to do a job. But the girls who started deserved to start and it's not a nice part of the game having to leave girls off . We have a lot of inexperienced girls out there and they'll learn from it I'm sure, hopefully we'll come back bigger and better.
