City of Derry Head Coach Richard McCarter on Derry v Ballymoney

City of Derry Head Coach Richard McCarter gives his verdict on his side's 41-27 victory over Ballymoney at Judges Road.

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00:00 Ritz, good start to the game, good start to the league.

00:04 Yeah, I think you've got to be pretty happy and content after a five point victory at

00:08 home.

00:09 We just after sending the lads from midway through the first half to midway through the

00:12 second half we were unbelievable at times, unplayable.

00:15 Some of the tries we scored were as good as I've seen here in years.

00:18 But if we want to get to the next level we've got to keep back on for as close to the A

00:22 as possible and we'll be a wee bit disappointed with how we finished the game but to score

00:26 40 odd points and open at the A, you can't be too disappointed.

00:29 Couple of the boys really put on a show there in the second half, like you said defensively

00:33 maybe you went to sleep slightly at the end?

00:36 Yeah, those were a couple of tries throughout the game we were disappointed with, the tap

00:40 and goes.

00:41 I actually thought we defended not too badly as a team, we made good low tackles but to

00:45 give them two five metre tap and goes was a bit irritating.

00:49 But it's something we work on in training, we build towards next Saturday but some of

00:54 the play was simulating.

00:55 Out the back it looked like he's had a threat every time he's went forward?

01:00 Yeah every time we moved the ball, players like Alex and Logie and Davy Graham in particular

01:05 in there, Ross McLaughlin was outstanding again.

01:07 It's going to be a threat against any team you play against but we did, every time we

01:11 moved the conditions were perfect, we just looked like we were going to score at will

01:14 at times.

01:15 And you were able to make changes again, a good result last week at Banbridge, this is

01:18 a tricky game at home to Ballymunny to start with but you're making changes, two wins,

01:22 can't ask for much more?

01:23 Yeah they're a good side, Ballymunny are a good side and I don't mean that to sound

01:26 in any way patronising, they were the better team in the first half but just a wee bit

01:30 more quality in the back so it was able to put us in front at half time but they have

01:34 a good solid game plan and they scored four or five tries against us so I think they'd

01:38 be disappointed that they didn't get anything more out of the game but as I say they're

01:43 a good side and we've got to be happy with that result.

01:45 Nice platform then to go into a tricky game next week in Iskilln?

01:48 Yeah it is, Iskilln showed last year how dangerous they can be, they did really well throughout

01:53 the whole season, the whole competition so we know what the task is ahead of us but we've

01:57 got to take the positives, we've got to have belief, start of pre-season up until now we've

02:03 been building every week and we've been really pleased with how we're progressing and as

02:06 you say there's options there off the bench, there's guys that aren't even involved today

02:09 to come back into the squad to contention so it's all looking positive.