{"id":1806,"date":"2023-03-04T09:08:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T09:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/wpd-preview-shelbourne-vs-cork-city\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T09:43:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:43:49","slug":"wpd-preview-shelbourne-vs-cork-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/wpd-preview-shelbourne-vs-cork-city\/","title":{"rendered":"WPD Preview: Shelbourne vs Cork City"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo-one expects us to achieve anything. That just drives me on and now we\u2019re ready to shut everybody up\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cork City FC open their League of Ireland Women’s Premier Division campaign this weekend with a trip to Tolka Park where they will face 2022 Double Winners Shelbourne. The return of Shamrock Rovers in the WNL after a 10-year absence has seen a lot of players moving around the Dublin Clubs and City manager Danny Murphy feels that it means his team are flying under the radar ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the league; I listen to the podcasts and shows, I see the media coverage and there\u2019s been so much talk about every other team in the league. No-one expects us to achieve anything. That just drives me on and now we\u2019re ready to shut everybody up,\u201d a passionate Murphy stated, continuing \u201cI\u2019ve said to the players, We\u2019re Cork City Football Club, we\u2019re a big club and now we need to start showing it – no-one is expecting anything from us, the worst thing they can do is underestimate us. We\u2019re going up to Tolka to win the game. We\u2019re not going up to sit back and hope to get a draw. We will show up at all the top teams, confident that we can beat them\u201d<\/p>\n

From the outside it might appear that there have only been a small number of additions to the City squad that finished so strongly last season, but Murphy is clearly happy with his squad. \u201cI think last season we were still looking at how individuals on the opposition might hurt us, now it\u2019s about how we work as a team ourselves, not as a group of individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of the academy players coming in who finished strongly with us last season, and they\u2019ve made it more competitive for places and that\u2019s driven everyone on a little. We do have a lot of last year\u2019s squad back, but I think we\u2019re stronger in terms of the core, with the way the younger players have come through and some of the players we\u2019ve brought in just to add different experiences and competition. I said all last season the league position didn\u2019t reflect the quality of the players we had, I\u2019ve huge trust in them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the course of the off-season, Dermot Usher took over the club and Murphy feels \u201chis interest in the Women\u2019s side is exciting. He wants it to be, like I do, the best women\u2019s side and academy in the country. And when we are, everything else will follow. But we must build it and grow it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDermot hasn\u2019t come in and made a load of silly promises, he\u2019s assessing things, and he wants to look at structures and build on the good where we can. He\u2019s spoken with everyone and is really thoughtful in his approach. Look, I could have asked him to give me a big bag of cash and bring in a load of players, but that\u2019s short term, instead we\u2019ve sat down and spoken about how things should be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout how we can improve and how we can build the profile of the women\u2019s teams, make the section self-sufficient so that we\u2019re not looking to be reliant anyone to subsidise us, which takes the pressure off everyone. It\u2019s exactly what I wanted to do coming in, and we both get on well. He understands where we\u2019re at, and where things need to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a long off-season, and everyone is just looking forward to getting back to competitive action \u201cYeah, we\u2019re ready, the girls have looked after themselves in the off season. They had their programmes, and all came back in good shape, it meant we\u2019ve been able to progress quickly to working with the ball once they were back. We\u2019re looking forward to Saturday now, it feels like it\u2019s been forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo-one expects us to achieve anything. That just drives me on and now we\u2019re ready to shut everybody up\u201d Cork City FC open their League of Ireland Women’s Premier Division campaign this weekend with a trip to Tolka Park where they will face 2022 Double Winners Shelbourne. The return of Shamrock Rovers in the WNL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,2,3,45,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-news","category-news-social-feed","category-website","category-womens-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcityfc-posts.speiredev.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}