Cork manager Ger Manley: We're just not taking our chances

It was not to be for Cork in their camogie championship clash with Tipperary and manager Ger Manley was obviously disappointed afterwards.

As well as losing his other concern was the fact they now will have no competitive game until June, when they start their All-Ireland series away to Galway.

“We are very disappointed to lose but in fairness to the girls they battled to the end, it was always going to be a tough challenge coming up here, but they gave it everything,” said Manley.

“We had a couple of chances there in the second half for a goal, and maybe if we took one we might have won.

“I thought we played quite well at the start of the second half and were on top. We're just not taking our chances.

“You know, we're struggling a bit up front and look we just have to get on with it and prepare now for the All-Ireland championship in seven or eight weeks time.

“To be fair to Tipp they are a good side they're very good hurlers. When we played against them in the league there wasn’t much in it and the same today.

“But look, at the moment, we're struggling to get scores and hopefully we'll improve in the next couple of weeks, because if we don't, I'll be talking about the same thing again.

“We're just not creating chances, and you need at least 80 or 19 points to win a game in camogie, and we're just a good bit away from it at the moment.

“Second half we improved a bit, were well in the game, but we struggled a bit near the end of the game again, some of these girls are playing with this level for the first time and it's going to take a bit of time to get used to it.

“We've a couple of players to come back up front, hopefully we'll get them back for the championship. We're just lacking a small bit of experience there and that will only come with time.

“In fairness they're putting savage effort in over the last couple of weeks, and we just have to push on now.”

Cork will now have no competitive game until June, something that is a concern for Manley.

“It’s hard to get challenge games, but we have a few of them involved with the U23 side, about nine, and they have qualified for the All-Ireland semi-final, so that will give them a couple of games.

“But we need a few games, you can see there we were a bit rusty, we weren't sharp and you can train all you want but you need games.

“We'll go back training this week and we'll give them a week off around the bank holiday weekend and drive on after that.”