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4th June 2016
10:06pm BST

However Lillis was left ruing the slow start, which saw Rock find the net within 20 seconds and Connolly add a second within five minutes.
"We planned in a certain way and other than the 2 goals, for the first 27 minutes of the game there was very little between the teams but they were sucker punches. We planned to not let in goals but it didn't work out," he said. "I don't think fear is the right word," he added. "We didn't cope with their onslaught. They were fast, their running game was strong. It just took us a little bit longer to get into that than we liked and we paid for it accordingly."But Lillis is not writing off the Leinster Championship thus yet. "Dublin are a very good side, they are a quality side, but they won't get it all their own way. It is not the foregone conclusion that a lot of people think it is," he said, before adding.
"They will take some beating." https://twitter.com/SportsJOE_GAA/status/739190133161873408Gavin, for his part, was happy overall, if not altogether impressed with the second half slowdown. "I wouldn't be happy with it and the players themselves wouldn't be happy with that second half performance and it certainly gives us things to focus on in the weeks ahead," said the Dublin manager, who confirmed Paul Flynn did not start due to a tightness felt in the warm-up.

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