MONAGHAN 0-15 KILDARE 1-10

KEVIN MCSTAY reckons it’s time for Roscommon to step into the modern era and park the bus like everyone else.

A year on from losing to Mayo by 22 points, the Rossies slipped to an 18-point defeat which leaves their Super 8s challenge in tatters.

Afterwards, boss Mcstay admitted their attacking style is outdated and said they only beat Armagh because Kieran Mcgeeney’s side also went for broke in a rare open encounter.

Roscommon’s gung-ho approach was meat and drink to Tyrone, who drew them in and punished them on the break with 13 different scorers.

Mcstay said: “Unfortunately this is the world we live in, I’m not judged by style – I’m judged by results.

“There’s a big debate currently about styles of play and there were patches of the game that were so hard to watch, there were three or four-minute spells where the life is just being sucked out of the game, with hand passing over and back and across.

“It’s not a style I particularly like but you have to be a realist as well. I have to give my teams the best chance of winning the games.

“We got lucky last week that Armagh said, ‘Right, let’s have a game here’ and we both had a shot at it. But the majority of teams won’t engage in that.

“We’re not eejits – we know the style of play that beat Armagh, while it’s lovely to watch, hard-nosed managers and analysts will say,

‘Sure that’s grand lads but it won’t stack up when the real gravy starts being divvied up’. We know that.”

Tyrone led 1-10 to 0-6 at half-time and sealed the big win with secondhalf goals from Conor Meyler, Peter Harte and Richard Donnelly.

Roscommon have to pick things up somehow for a home clash with Donegal who desperately need a win themselves.

Mcstay said: “We’d be honest enough to know that what happened here wasn’t good enough. The lads will conclude that themselves, they won’t need me to tell them.”