Kevin McStay expects the experience of playing in Croke Park to bring his Roscommon team on in leaps and bounds.

The Rossies showed few signs of stage fright in drawing with Mayo, despite having little or no experience of playing at GAA headquarters before today.

"We have never played here before, all the young players bar Sean McDermott, he has played one, the rest of them have never played championship here at this level, at quarter-final level," the Roscommon manager pointed out.

"That is great. It is money in the bank we'd see it as for the replay, but not only the replay, for next year and beyond for our development.

"That was good, but we just made so many errors throughout the game it was hard to get momentum, we kept turning the ball over, but we never said die, we kept at it."

The former Mayo star felt the draw was a fair result and welcomed the fact that the replay will be staged in Croke Park tomorrow week.

"I said it outside, I have a lot of recall of us attacking from the half back line having turned it over and then get 30 metres into the Mayo half and get turned over again to give it back to them.

"So I think it is probably a fair result overall, I think we deserved it, we showed a lot of bottle for a young team," he added.

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