'That wasn't acceptable' - Lynch on Swifts defeatpublished at 16:37 6 October 2024

Larne have suffered three league defeats this season
Larne manager Tiernan Lynch said that his side's performance in their 3-0 defeat against Dungannon Swifts "was not acceptable".
Goals from James Knowles, John McGovern and Adam Glenny gave the superb Swifts a deserved win at Inver Park.
The defeat was Larne's third in the league this season, but Lynch refused to blame their involvement in the Uefa Conference League against Molde on Thursday as an excuse for their sub-par performance.
"I'm not accepting that [his side suffered from a European hangover], for what this team have delivered over the last number of months and seasons that wasn't acceptable today," he told BBC Sport NI.
Lynch admits that his side must work quickly to improve as they sit sixth in the league table, albeit with three games in hand over the sides around them.
"It's not something I want to sit and talk to the media about; we will deal with it internally go away now and reflect and we'll take the bones of this," he continued.
"We have to lick our wounds and work out where we went wrong and how we put it right."
The Larne boss is also anxious to discover the extent of Aaron Donnelly's injury, after he limped off just a few minutes after coming on as a substitute.
"Aaron has been nursing an ankle injury now for a couple of weeks, today it was the other ankle so very unfortunate for him, but it will probably take a day or two to understand where he is at.