Derry Under 20 manager Hugh McGrath gives his verdict on his side's late defeat against Tyrone
Derry Under 20 manager Hugh McGrath gives his verdict on his side's late Group A defeat against Tyrone in the Ulster U20 Championship
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00:00 Just when it looked like you got yourself back into it and it nicked a point from the game.
00:05 Heartbreaking way to lose it?
00:06 I don't know about heartbreaking but look it's never nice to lose.
00:10 It was that sort of game though wasn't it? It was up and down, each team having a proper go at it.
00:16 There was always that chance we tried to press the kick and tried a few things out.
00:20 We got caught at the end. It's simple, that's how it happens in football sometimes.
00:24 But there's enough positives to take out of the game to take into Monaghan next week.
00:28 They've won their early game tonight so that'll be a do or die battle next week.
00:32 We hope that we've learned some things from tonight and we carry that into that game.
00:37 It's not a disaster in a sense in the group. It probably leaves Tyrone better placed to top it
00:41 but you'll not be getting too worried about them being defeated at this point?
00:44 No, but it's never nice to lose, especially a derby game.
00:48 Never nice to lose against Tyrone but look it's happened, we know where we are.
00:54 If we finish first, second, third in the group we go through but we have to get that job done.
00:59 So that's why next week in Castledooney is such a big thing.
01:02 Look we've got a game into Danny McDermott tonight, we've got Niall O'Donnell back into the fray
01:07 and got some minutes into his legs so it's moving in the right direction.
01:10 A win would have been superb, it would have been enjoyable, it would have been all the rest of those things
01:14 but nothing really changes in terms of what we need to do to get to the next level of it.
01:18 It's just a case of, you said there's positives to take, you've listed a few of them.
01:23 While the results are in the bag, were you happy enough with some of what you've seen?
01:26 Yeah, look, some of the work on our own kick-out was good, some of our transition was very good.
01:31 You have to remember a lot of these guys are first year at this age, so far they are in what's a learning curve.
01:36 That's their second game at this level.
01:38 You've Johnny McGuckin and Kehar Spears that are getting in there and doing those things,
01:42 Rory Small, Finn McEldooney, it's a learning curve for all of them
01:45 and every game like that against the opposition that we've played tonight will bring them on
01:50 and that's what we want to see from them.