McGill rues Dublin's missed chances

Disappointed Dublin manager Gerry McGill admitted that missed chances cost his team dearly in Sunday's TG4 All-Ireland Ladies senior football championship final.

Dublin missed a glorious early goal chance and a tenth minute penalty, key moments which came back to haunt the Sky Blues as they lost out by just a single point.

McGill reflected: 'The best team never loses I suppose.

'I think it comes down to taking your chances and unfortunately and at this point we'd have to say we missed a
few chances at the end and were left to rue them.

'We were within six minutes of winning an All-Ireland and we had them on the rack for long periods in the game but that's sport, that's the way it goes.'

Nonetheless, McGill was hugely proud of the performance of his Leinster champions as they handed Cork their toughest championship test in recent times.

He said: 'A lot of people didn't think we'd have any chance at all. We always believed we were a good enough set of players and that we were good enough to go all the way.

'Penalties, you see fellas in England getting 50 grand a week and they're missing penalties.

'We wouldn't be here today without Sinead Aherne's talent all year.

'It's neither here nor there.

'I don't think it decided the game. We were two points up but over a five or six minute period Cork got a bit of dominance and we conceded one or two sloppy scores. If you make mistakes Cork will punish you whereas other teams mightn't.

'The work rate was tremendous. We maybe could have made one or two changes earlier.

'When you're one or two points up and it's very tight one or two changes can change the course of the game.

'Fatigue came into it at the end but we gave it our best and you can't ask for any more.'