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EASKEY manager Dessie Sloyan spoke honestly after the game, admitting that it was one that didn’t go their way.
“We didn’t perform, that is basically it. Look it we knew coming up here it was a big ask, Munster champions, Kerry champions, Division 1 team in Kerry. We were under no expectations or anything like that but we had great faith in ourselves and our systems and how we could perform and really take the game to Beaufort but unfortunately we just couldn’t get going in that first 10 minutes.
“We had plenty of opportunities there at the start just to settle us down but we couldn’t get settled and when you don’t settle down in the first 10 minutes of a game you kind of lose your shape, you lose your rhythm and guys revert back to the wrong options to take and because we kind of put pressure on ourselves and we shouldn’t have really,” Sloyan admitted.
Beaufort’s physicality could not be matched by Easkey on the day, and Sloyan felt his side didn’t do themselves justice on the day.
“In fairness to Beaufort they are a serious outfit and their middle diamond round was just too strong for our lads there. They were physically stronger all over the pitch and that showed up a bit as well but look it we are just disappointed, disappointed in our own performance that is the big thing,” he added.
He felt the turning point was when Beaufort went to fist the ball over the bar, but ended up putting the ball in the back of the net.
“I thought what changed the game completely was when they tried fisting the ball over the bar, it comes back and it hits the post and comes back and is buried in the back of the net that really put us under the cosh.
“If you are three or four points down you could possibly come back but the next thing it is 1-3 or 1-4 to a point.
“We just didn’t get going in that first 15 or 20 minutes and that’s what killed us,” Sloyan explained.
Sloyan was adamant that his players are better than what they showed in the first-half.
“I felt bad for the lads at halftime because they are a lot better than what they did show in that first half, they are a way better team.
“And I mean we hadn’t a perfor-