cork city

[higgins]

Cork were awful tonight

Not seen them as poor in a very long while. I'll put it down to the lack of Rico as they seemed to go from bad to worse through the game. There was nobody there who stood up and changed things.

First 15 mins you were well in it then something changed!! nobody wanted the ball and you gave it away every 3 secs!!

[ollie]

a bit harsh there higins.as i said before city didn't play to their potential tonight.agree with you about keeping possesion though.they must keep it better than they did.they ended up killing themselves chasing it.

[harry crumb]

Gamble was not on the ball enough at all.

Fenn was isolated up front.

The key was the midfield was not strong enough in defence or attack.

[harry crumb]

We can come back.

Derry gave us a similar type of beating in the Brandywell a few weeks ago.

Any way Longford on Sunday is the next big game.

[drinkfeckarse]

It makes the home leg very tough but it's definately not beyond them IMO.

[joey B]

Cork's ball retention was awful I mean O'callaghan gave the ball away at least 3 times in dangerous area's ,which city were lucky not to conceed from.

In saying that I think if Cork's attacking players had more decent ball they could have some damage the 2 wingers looked like they had the beating of their markers.

The tie ain't over yet but It's real huge task now.

[Éanna]

EL clubs have so much work to do, physically, techincally etc I dont agree with Roddy Collins , I think we can still make progress.

very disappointed at Roddy using a chance to talk about the strides this league has made to a wide audience as a pathetic chance to be controversial again. bad form

[Éanna]

we were poor. no doubting. but it says something about the quality of this team that we're still in it after a poor performance, and indeed, could have come away with a 2-1 defeat which would have been a very acceptable result