CORK EXITED THE 2015 hurling race yesterday after suffering a heavy defeat against Galway and the spotlight now falls on the future of manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy.
The Cork boss has another year left to run on the two-year extension that he was handed last year. Barry-Murphy began his second spell as Rebels boss at the outset of the 2012 season.
The issue of Barry-Murphy’s future plans came up in yesterday’s post-match press conference.
“I can’t wait for next year, work it out ye’re selves,” replied Barry-Murphy.
“I believe there’s a great future for the Cork players. I’ll leave it at what I said there now.”
Barry-Murphy was queried as to whether Cork should have changed their tactics yesterday.
We were accused earlier in the year of having no tactics, then we tried a different system of defensive play.
“Every game you play you try to assess what’s good for the team and the panel of players available to you. As I said, the lads have given us everything over the last four years.
“We’ve been competing at the highest level but just fallen short.”
The Cork manager had no qualms about accepting Galway were superior.
“In fairness to the players, they tried their hearts out there but we just weren’t good enough. We were comprehensively outplayed all over the field.
“You just feel that we made a bit of a fight in the second half for a period, but it was a lost cause at times.
“We played Clare here and won a great game. Clare are a very good team, but today we just fell short of the standard we’d like to set, and Galway were comprehensively better than us all over the field.”
