IT’S not difficult to pinpoint structural deficiencies when Cork City spent their off-season economising in IKEA while their competitors splashed out along the high street.
Recruitment — as Keith Long cited during his swansong from an eight-year stint at Bohemians last year — is universally accepted as critical to success. Failings on that front have descended City into the mire they’ve a job on their hands to escape from. Colin Healy wasn’t prepared to wait until the July transfer window for that to be rectified, quitting a week ago.
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