Morgan: it all worked to plan
“We’ve been improving steadily and certainly coming up here we were very confident. I suppose everything we planned worked out for us, and I was very pleased with the game from that point of view.”
Cork dominated midfield from the beginning, and the Rebels boss, speaking to RTÉ television, was quick to pay tribute to his men in the middle after the final whistle.
“I keep saying that Nicholas Murphy doesn’t get the credit he deserves,” said Morgan. “People talk about the best midfielders in the game and, when they do, Nicholas is rarely mentioned. Likewise, Derek Kavanagh gets through an amount of work for us in midfield.”
Morgan was also quick to praise his forwards, who racked up an impressive 1-16, despite having to line out without top scorer James Masters, who sustained a broken jaw against Sligo.
“James (Masters) is a huge loss for us, but we have other good forwards. Donncha O’Connor is a very good forward, Daniel Goulding did a job, and Kieran McMahon, John Miskella and Pierce O’Neill worked their asses off throughout the game.
“I suppose one thing we might have had was that we were only playing in patches up to this. We wanted to start well and maintain our momentum, and we did that.”
Morgan had a parting shot for RTÉ television anchor Michael Lyster: “Will you ever tell Michael Lyster up there, I didn’t say anything about the forwards last time, because you asked me about the backs and the midfielders. That’s why I didn’t say anything about the forwards.”
Asked if the media had given Cork ammunition, he said: “The boys above stairs gave us plenty of it. And some of ye too, by the way”.
“I suppose we’ve been so maligned, but we knew that performance was in the team. If the so-called experts are looking at the situation, and the way we could play, I can’t understand why. The Sligo game was a difficult game to play and we won it by six points. People underestimated Louth and we won that game too.”
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