Tony McEntee has thanked Garrycastle for firing his players up before the throw-in at Breffni Park.

When asked by the BBC about the work he'd done to get his team fired up for Saturday's All-Ireland club final replay, the Crossmaglen boss said that their opponents' behaviour before the throw-in had made his charges doubly-determined.

A couple of scuffles broke out before the action had even started and Rangers manager McEntee says this played right into his team's hands:

"I think to be fair I'd maybe thank Garrycastle for that, for the actions at the start of the match simply revved our boys up that wee bit more.

"And saying our boys aren't big and strong or don't like aggressive football ... well, I think they're certainly big enough and they love aggressive football, that's for sure.

"We did what we are good at eventually and we found that bit of tempo that we're fit to play at and, after half an hour's good football, the game was nearly in the bag at that stage.

"We had a hard two weeks but the main thing was working on mistakes from the last day and trying to correct that and to try and build it up to the intensity of football that we can play at. And we did do that." Tweet

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