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Listen: Eamonn McConigley on Rovers’ final defeat and build-up for League play-off

written by Chris McNulty June 4, 2018
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Eamonn McConigley says Letterkenny Rovers have to put the disappointment of Saturday evening’s USL League Cup final defeat behind them having been given another bite at the League title.

Rovers looked down and out of the USL race a few short weeks ago, but on Wednesday night at Dry Arch Park (7.30pm) they face Cockhill Celtic with the title up for grabs in a play-off.

“We were out of it, but we got a second life and we took it,” McConigley said.

“We’ll have a go again on Wednesday night.”

Rovers will welcome Ryan Lonergan and Chris Malseed back from holidays, but David Shovlin will sit out the game having been sent off in Saturday’s 3-1 Cup final loss to Cockhill in Buncrana.

All the goals came in the final 19 minutes. Laurence Toland, a substitute, turned the tide for Cockhill, but McConigley was left with a bitter taste in the manner of Toland’s opener and also  disallowed Cillian Morrison effort in a frenetic finish.

McConigley said: “I felt whoever would get the first goal would go onto win it. We’re disappointed insofar as we felt it was a free and a yard offside as well.

“The referee and linesman missed it, but we have to take it on the chin. The sickening part is that it was a free out.

“We were still in it and the third goal was comical from us. But when we were 2-0 down, we had to go for a goal ourselves.

“you have to get the rub of the green. Cillian Morrison went in to challenge the size of Gavin Cullen…as far as I’m concerned he dropped it into the net.”

Listen to the full interview below …

Listen: Eamonn McConigley on Rovers’ final defeat and build-up for League play-off was last modified: June 3rd, 2018 by Chris McNulty
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Chris McNulty

Author of 'Boxing In Donegal: A History (2021)' - the definitive history of the sport in County Donegal - and 'Relentless: A Race Through Time', the 2019 memoir of former Irish Athletics Team Manager Patsy McGonagle. From St Johnston and now based in Letterkenny, Chris was a nominee for NUJ Sports Journalist of the Year in 2010. Honoured by the Donegal Boxing Board in 2016 for his coverage on the sport.

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