Keith Ricken: 'With a lack of games, the first ten minutes was going to catch you'

“The other thing we found difficult this week, and I would put their education key, is that we had one guy who came on today who is doing his Leaving Cert, and four guys out there doing their Junior Certs as well. It’s been a hard week for them. That too was a factor, and I’m not looking for excuses.” 

LACK OF GAMES: Cork manager Keith Ricken was left to bemoan a disastrous opening quarter as his charges just could not overcome the mountain they left for themselves to climb in Saturday’s defeat to Tyrone. Pic: ©INPHO/Leah Scholes

All-Ireland MFC quarter-final: Cork: 1-12 (1-1-10) Tyrone: 1-21 (1-2-17)

Cork manager Keith Ricken was left to bemoan a disastrous opening quarter as his charges just could not overcome the mountain they left for themselves to climb in Saturday’s defeat to Tyrone in the All-Ireland MFC quarter-final at O’Moore Park in Portlaoise.