Derry manager Paddy Tally gives his verdict on the league opener against Tyrone

Derry manager Paddy Tally gives his verdict on the league opener against Tyrone in Healy Park

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00:00How would you sum that one up?

00:03It's a difficult one for the players now. We came here with real hope.

00:07We knew exactly it was going to be very tough against Toronto at home in the first match.

00:10We knew it was going to be a real challenge.

00:12We were really well up for that match.

00:14We thought by the time we'd come to half time we'd sort of got ourselves,

00:18we knew what was going on.

00:20I think we played really well for a long period of the second half.

00:22We just caught a bad goal in the momentum and shifted towards the end.

00:26New rules are going to take time.

00:28It's a strange game. It just doesn't flow the way a normal game flows.

00:31You know, you're watching boys, three men stand up and not come back.

00:35At times the game just became very dead with an extra player in the half

00:38and the goalkeeper coming up before the twelfth man.

00:40So, I just don't know.

00:42It's not really, I think, what people envisage as being an open, free-flowing football.

00:45Is there anything like that?

00:46Still a few positives though. I know it's not the result you wanted,

00:48but I mean there's a few boys put their hands up.

00:50Brenton was excellent. There's a few things to build on.

00:53Aye, and that's Brenton's first game for a long time.

00:55I think Shane's first game for a long time since they played for us last year in the Championship,

00:58which was a long time ago.

00:59So, there is a lot. It is going to take time.

01:02I think we'll be disappointed in ourselves that we did create a lot more chances

01:07if we didn't take them.

01:08Especially when you're on top.

01:10There was a period in the second half where Gerry were well on top,

01:12but they missed a number of chances.

01:14And you have to take the end of the other team into our own

01:15because you always knew.

01:16I even feel that this team are going to come again.

01:18They're not going to go away.

01:20And we didn't find that gap to give ourselves a bit of security

01:24going into the last dip.

01:26So, that's disappointing, but no excuses.

01:28We have plenty of work to do.