Derry manager Paddy Tally gives his verdict on the league opener against Tyrone in Healy Park
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00:00How would you sum that one up?
00:03It's a difficult one for the players now. We came here with real hope.
00:07We knew exactly it was going to be very tough against Toronto at home in the first match.
00:10We knew it was going to be a real challenge.
00:12We were really well up for that match.
00:14We thought by the time we'd come to half time we'd sort of got ourselves,
00:18we knew what was going on.
00:20I think we played really well for a long period of the second half.
00:22We just caught a bad goal in the momentum and shifted towards the end.
00:26New rules are going to take time.
00:28It's a strange game. It just doesn't flow the way a normal game flows.
00:31You know, you're watching boys, three men stand up and not come back.
00:35At times the game just became very dead with an extra player in the half
00:38and the goalkeeper coming up before the twelfth man.
00:40So, I just don't know.
00:42It's not really, I think, what people envisage as being an open, free-flowing football.
00:45Is there anything like that?
00:46Still a few positives though. I know it's not the result you wanted,
00:48but I mean there's a few boys put their hands up.
00:50Brenton was excellent. There's a few things to build on.
00:53Aye, and that's Brenton's first game for a long time.
00:55I think Shane's first game for a long time since they played for us last year in the Championship,
00:58which was a long time ago.
00:59So, there is a lot. It is going to take time.
01:02I think we'll be disappointed in ourselves that we did create a lot more chances
01:07if we didn't take them.
01:08Especially when you're on top.
01:10There was a period in the second half where Gerry were well on top,
01:12but they missed a number of chances.
01:14And you have to take the end of the other team into our own
01:15because you always knew.
01:16I even feel that this team are going to come again.
01:18They're not going to go away.
01:20And we didn't find that gap to give ourselves a bit of security
01:24going into the last dip.
01:26So, that's disappointing, but no excuses.
01:28We have plenty of work to do.