Meath manager Seamus McEnaney was disappointed with his side's performance and the standard of refereeing in their defeat to Galway.

McEnaney felt Dublin referee Gary McCormack was far too quick to issue yellow cards, but refused to blame him for the Royals' loss.

"We are not pointing the finger, but the bottom line here is Meath had enough possession in the second half to win the game and we didn't win it," he said.

"There seemed to be yellow cards dished out for a matter of form. This is the reason I was very strongly against the yellow card the time it was changed, because it is taking the physicality out of the game.

"We are trying to manage a team to play Gaelic football and it is putting managers under serious pressure. We had to take two men off in the first half, probably two of our best defenders, simply because we were told next foul they would be sent off.

"I don't want to criticise like that and I'll tell you why: Meath didn't play well enough today, Meath were not good enough and not intense enough.

"They didn't move the ball at enough pace and the shot selection was very poor. We need to get that right in the next seven days." Tweet

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