Liam McHale reckons Roscommon hold the aces going into Monday's All-Ireland quarter-final replay with Mayo.
While Mayo are a more seasoned Croke Park outfit, Rossies selector McHale believes Sunday's run-out at HQ in the drawn encounter will bring the Connacht champions on in leaps and bounds:
"I think this type of game in this environment will bring us on a long way," he told The Irish Independent. "And I think that we will be a little bit more comfortable, and a little bit more composed on Monday.
"I think it's great for us, another big game, our third big game this year, a fourth championship match, we're just really looking forward to it, looking forward to this game coming in. But I think there's more excitement about it now, we really feel that we've a great chance of winning the game.
"It's a tough draw for Mayo, they have had a long, long, hard haul the last six weeks and we feel that we have an advantage now going into the game simply because we are fresh and we are hungry and we are young and that Mayo team has had to put up with a lot his year now.
"And I am sure they are really disappointed that they didn't beat us by a point or two and get the two or three weeks' rest that they need going into a semi-final. So we are really delighted with the draw. Obviously we would have loved to have won it at the end, but we are very happy that we are still in the championship."
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