Shane Ward has been encouraged by what he has seen from his Leitrim players thus far in 2015.

Even though the Connacht minnow have garnered just one point from three outings so far in the national league and are effectively out of contention for promotion, the new manager believes things are taking shape:

"When we started off in the beginning of the year and I spoke with you first, we looked at the process that was involved and what we would have to do to get forward," he told The Leitrim Observer.

"There has been massive positives from our point of view. Looking at that game [against Antrim], people may not see that but there has been massive strides forward made and, when it does happen and it does go right, they'll rarely look back.

"We got an early goal and I thought we showed great impetus in the move going forward to finish off the goal but then we tended to lay back and when we laid back Antrim went down the field and scored another goal and I think that was our story for the game.

"We went ahead or we scored and then we let Antrim reply with two and that was, I suppose, the story of the entire game."

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