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MARK Fitzgerald, Karuna O’Rahilly’s trainer, is lamenting a season just passed. Lamenting the referee too.
“It’s gut-wrenching,” he says, “and we were hit with a dubious decision. I just hope that they were the right decisions because players put their lives on the line.
“David Moran came back two weeks earlier from Australia. Mike Quirke cut a honeymoon short. I just hope the decisions were right and if so fair enough, but Barry John Keane was not given any protection.”
However, then Fitzgerald puts his hand up. “We did have enough pos- session and we did have enough chances. The nine wides in the first half killed us.
“We thought if we won the toss and had the wind that David [Moran] would be best utilised at full-for- ward, he is a good fielder and a good kicker but it did not work out. We did not get quality ball into him.
He said he was pleased with how his side applied themselves in the second-half.
“We upped it after the sending off because we had to, we possibly had chances but took the wrong options rm Ob estoy
“It was hard playing into the breeze with 14 men. You think you might nick it in with a goal chance.”
Then there’s the red card. “I did not see what happened with the incident that led the first yellow card, but the leg was raised for the second one.
“Then again the Kilmurry players were grabbing fellows around the neck and there was no recourse to them. It is tough to take again.
“The free count at half-time was something like 16 to six in their fa- vour and we said that to the referee at half time. We were not asking for any favours but a fair crack at this den eetcaae