Mulholland hoping to keep it tight
July 09, 2014
Galway manager Alan Mulholland with his back room team.
Mulholland has noted how the Rossies' defensive approach frustrated the champions and, considering they fell to an embarrassing 17-point defeat to their arch rivals 12 months ago, accepts his team will have to play it smart.
"You look at the players you have at your disposal and you look at what suits them," Mulholland explained to the Irish Daily Star.
"We might have different styles of players to what Roscommon might have so maybe that won't suit us to play a lot of men in defence. It did give us all a bit of hope!
"We are not going to do exactly what they did, we like to have the ball and attack so we're not going to knock that out of players. That's our strength so we need to play to our strengths.
"Roscommon got so close to them and only lost by a point in the end and they were very clever that day. They managed the game well and really could have turned them over in the end.
"We'd be hoping we can do something similar, keep it tight, and hopefully in the last 15 or 20 minutes we might still be in with a shout." Tweet
