IRELAND’S show jumping chef d’equipe Rodrigo Pessoa admitted his team were “just not good enough” at the European Championships in Rotterdam last week, where they finished in seventh place and ultimately missed qualification for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games by one place.

It all fell apart for the team of Cian O’Connor (PSG Final), Peter Moloney (Chianti’s Champion), Shane Sweetnam (Alejandro) and Darragh Kenny (Balou du Reventon) on the second day when the team racked up 20 penalties when discarding O’Connor’s score of 16 faults.