Kevin McStay says the six-day turnaround had a telling effect on Roscommon's exit from the All-Ireland SFC yesterday.

The Rossies fell to a shock 2-12 to 1-9 defeat at the hands of Clare in Salthill and afterwards their joint manager made no excuses.  

"We were not up for it. The six days is obvious, you know the stats. It is a very tough one to manage. If we were going to rise," McStay told the Irish Independent afterwards.

"I thought we'd be the match of Clare. Six day turnaround and going to play Dublin or Kerry or someone you'd be up against it. It was Clare we were playing coming from Division 3 and we are Division 1 and we felt we'd match them but the evidence didn't match up.

"We had said to them, 'you'll think you are going nicely until you get a sucker punch and it's how you react to that', but then they put another goal on top of it. That really made a gap and we couldn't react to it. We didn't have it in us today."

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