New York's former Kerry underage star Dan Doona says the Exiles are "confident" of beating Roscommon in Sunday's Connacht SFC opener at Gaelic Park.

Despite not having had a competitive outing since coming within a whisker of shocking Galway this time last year, New York are approaching the game in a confident frame of mind according to their captain and centre forward, who Mick O'Dwyer once tried to lure to Wicklow.

"We actually expect to beat Roscommon. That's the way we are approaching the championship this year. We are confident," Doona said in the Irish Independent

"We feel that this is New York's chance to win a championship game. It would be a huge boost to football here. The players see this as a chance to go down in history as the first New York team to win a championship game. This is the chance to get our names written into the history books of the GAA."

He continued: "What we want now is to get the result that we want against Roscommon," he said. "We very were disappointed not to beat Galway last year.

"We felt that we were good enough to win that game. Galway are a nice footballing side but Roscommon will be that much tougher so we have to be ready for that. It's going to be a hard game.

"Last year against Galway we were down by just a point with 10 minutes to go and we played the last 15 minutes with only 13 men. We know that if we had kept all our guys on the field that we would have beaten Galway. Joe Kernan said as much after the game. That was a hard defeat to take." Tweet

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