Steven Poacher took a swipe at those who had written off Leitrim before last Saturday’s Connacht SFC semi-final against Galway.

While the Tribesmen justified their favouritism with a 1-20 to 2-12 victory in Carrick-on-Shannon, they were pushed hard by a Leitrim side who their manager was convinced could win.

“I probably will be proud tomorrow or the next day but now, the overriding emotion is that we could be in a Connacht final, it's devastation. I'd actually organised to stay down here tonight and go to Castlebar tomorrow and see that game tomorrow and plot our way to Connacht title,” he told the Leitrim Observer.

“People on the outside might say, that man's deluded but, no, I'm not. I watched Galway last year in Páirc Esler in Newry, I watched the way Down took them apart on the kickout and I thought that was the area we could get at. We have done, honestly, the guts of 25-30 hours of video work on this group, on this Galway team.”

He added: “I just know myself that we were disrespected coming in here today - some of the punditry, some of the media coverage around it, some of it very derogatory. 

“Today these young lads showed that they were close and you know what, the game plan that we put in place here today, every one of them executed to the letter of the law.”

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