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By Conor Martin
Dublin travel to Roscommon this weekend, hoping to get back to winning ways as they look to keep their ambitions of staying in Division 1 alive.
Roscommon are in fine form and are enjoying an impressive league campaign so far, but the Dubs can take inspiration from the gritty, hard-fought win against the Rossies 10 years ago.
After a late venue change after the Dr Hyde Park pitch failed a 9am pitch inspection, the game was moved to Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada in Carrick-on-Shannon.
Roscommon struck first, with Niall Daly and Ciaran Murtagh splitting the posts. The Rossies were sharp early on, finding space and asking serious questions up front, but it didn’t last, and Dublin found themselves working themselves into the game.
Their discipline slipped, with Roscommon giving away a handful of frees, which allowed Dean Rock to punish them. He opened Dublin’s account in the 11th minute and had the Dubs level just four minutes later.
Roscommon began to wobble as Rock caught fire, running up six points of his own while Dublin surged clear, 0-7 to 0-2.
Sean McDermott saw black for hauling down Emmet O’Conghaile, and when Kevin McManamon and Shane Carthy piled on more points, the outlook for Roscommon turned bleak fast.
Conor McHugh grew into the game in style, a slick turn, a sharp pick-up, and a perfectly timed lay-off for McManamon that lit up the crowd.
Donie Shine finally stopped the rot on 37 minutes, but Roscommon were already in deep trouble, trailing 0-9 to 0-3 at the break.
Cathal Cregg’s black card for a trip on Mannion made life harder, yet despite their setbacks, Roscommon came out after half-time with renewed bite.
Murtagh's second point of the game cut the gap to 0-9 to 0-6, and Roscommon were back in the contest.
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