MANAGER'S VIEW: 'I'm humiliated' - Niall Currie's Portadown pain after Glenavon derby woe
Portadown lost out in Lurgan by 3-0 and suffered a late red card for Luke Wilson on a derby day to forget against Glenavon after home goals by Paddy Burns, Conor Falls and Paul McGovern.
Here’s the post-match verdict of Portadown manager Niall Currie:
EARLY MISS...
"That's not a great chance (for Eamon Fyfe)...that's better than a great chance.
"I thought we started really well...first 10-15 minutes, wee Teelan (James) stretching them down the sides, we got down the sides quite a bit.
"I think that chance is a big, big, big chance.
"You want to see a reaction to it as well.
"Stevie McCullough's hit the post...again, it's ifs and buts, if I could have, should have, would have.
"But if that goes in and it's 2-1, it changes everything.”
GOAL DISAPPOINTMENT...
"We haven't picked (Paddy) Burns up...when there are so many red shirts, we've lost him.
"We've got a guy who lost his man, free header. "Then you want just to settle the game down for 10 minutes, you need to manage the game.
"We didn't manage it well enough and we concede a goal minutes later.
"We were glad to get in at half-time.
"But we've got to look at the goals, they're poor goals when you analyse everything.
"Whenever you concede your first goal, it's like a pin in the balloon moment for a lot of players. "But it's about the reaction...the reaction has to be of leaders and men standing up and going, right guys, we'll go again."
OVERALL PERFORMANCE...
"We've done this before this season, we've just beat Larne deservedly, we beat Dunganon deservedly.
"We have to evolve...you can't come and put a performance like we did today in my eyes.
"It's about the manner of things.
"I'll put it like this...I was humiliated today. "That was pretty toothless from us, the reaction to everything.
"But we have that kind of performance in us.
We talked about discipline, staying cool...we didn't do that at all.
"We're in a Mid-Ulster derby, you want passion, you want that hunger...you need to win your individual battles all over the pitch.
"You need to win first ball, second ball...we didn't pick up second balls, they were first to everything. "We changed shape, getting two people up front but we're still making the same mistakes
"We were second-best in the middle of the park, your engine room."
DERBY BLUES...
"We've come away with an absolute stinker of a performance...you've got to give credit to Glenavon as well.
"I thought they were a really, really young, hungry team.
"But I'm really hugely disappointed with my boys today.
"In the Mid-Ulster derby I'm fired up I can tell you 52, 53 years of age, I'm fired up.
"Everything we do is collectively so, from my point of view, I've got to look at myself as well today because we just didn't click.
"As a collective today, myself and the staff, we've let our supporters down, we've let the board down and we've let ourselves down more so than anything.
"So we now have to pick ourselves up and get a reaction."