Conroy rues missed goal chances
July 18, 2014
Rory Kavanagh of Donegal with Galway's Paul Conroy. INPHO
Paul Conroy was ruing the number of goal-scoring opportunities Galway passed up on during last Sunday's Connacht SFC final defeat to Mayo in Castlebar.
"I thought maybe we didn't take a couple of chances and that cost us dearly," the Galway captain told the Connacht Tribune afterwards.
"We thought we were in a good state coming down here. We felt we had no pressure on us, we were underdogs and we just said we'd give it a go and, I think we did that today, but we gave away a few cheap goals.
"That could be the game summed up there - they took their chances and we didn't. Every time we seemed to be coming back at them, they went up the other end and got a goal. You know, we're going to have to tighten up in that regard."
The St. James' man insists Galway won't be taking anything for granted against a fast-improving Tipperary in their last 12 clash.
"I think we won the Tipp match last year by about two or three points, but they gave us a right game and they had a lot of chances," he recalled.
"They have definitely come on since then, they've won Division 4, they beat Longford in Thurles and then they beat Laois, so we'll have it all to do to beat them, but we're looking forward to it."
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