Conor Devaney points out that Roscommon needed to return to Croke Park and deliver a decent display.

Having been mauled by Mayo in their last appearance at HQ - last summer's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final replay - the Rossies set the record straight to an extent when outscoring Cavan in Sunday's shackles-off Division Two final:

"It was very satisfying, the main reason being it was a good experience in Croke Park whereas our last experience in August wasn't exactly great, so it's great to get up here and perform," their captain told The Irish Independent.

"Now obviously there were a lot of things we didn't do well but all in all we got the win and it's important for this team to have some success up here. Going back to the Mayo game in August we felt that we totally underperformed, even though Mayo were that much ahead of us. I still think it was nice to come here and get some winning experience coming into the summer."

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