GAA/Fallout from Cork's defeat: Seán Moran talks to the Cork county chairman Jim Forbes and his Roscommon counterpart Stephen Banaghan

Cork county chairman Jim Forbes has reiterated criticism of security arrangements at Hyde Park, Roscommon, last Saturday. Forbes was referring to the incident in which a Cork supporter got inside the pitch enclosure and was only apprehended just before he reached Cork manager Larry Tompkins.

He also complained that both he and Tompkins were not allowed into their opponents' dressing-room after the narrow All-Ireland qualifier defeat by Roscommon.

"It shouldn't have been allowed happen," said Forbes of the first incident. "How he got so far in a modern stadium is ridiculous. I was very annoyed particularly because he wore a Cork jersey. To me he's not a true supporter.

"It turned out that I knew the man and saw the same individual the next day in Thurles. I was disappointed no end. Larry Tompkins doesn't deserve that in public or in private.

"We can't have this sort of thing happening in GAA grounds. If that happened in a certain ground near here in Cork, it would make national headlines. Yet there was very little about it. That he got so far along the sideline showed a lack of respect to both teams. He shouldn't have got that close. He was on the terrace earlier attacking the Cork team as they were going off the field at half-time.

"It would be very hard for a county board officer to get that far down the field without being stopped. If we can't provide security for teams we're going down the wrong road entirely."

Asked would the county board be taking any action against the supporter - who was taken away by gardaí and charged - Forbes said: "I haven't thought about that to be honest. I'm not sure what we could do."

He was also annoyed by the lack of access to the opposition dressing-room. Both he and Tompkins attempted to gain entry so they could congratulate the winners - as is traditional after GAA matches. "Larry Tompkins and I could not get into the Roscommon dressing-room after the match. We weren't let in. I don't know whether Tommy Carr (Roscommon manager) knew about it because he came down to our room on his own and said a few words.

"We made two attempts to get in and were told to wait. The door was then closed and locked again. So we knocked again a minute or so later and were told again to wait. I was very annoyed. It's not the norm and is very difficult for a manager to go into the dressing-room of the team that's just beaten you but it's done. I was taken aback and disappointed."

Forbes's counterpart Roscommon chairman Stephen Banaghan rejected the complaints.

"There were both security men and stewards at the game. The Cork spectator came over the fence and didn't get as far as the officials. The stewards saw him going up the sideline and apprehended him.

"I don't think there was any question of their not being let into the team room. A horde of supporters and young kids got into the dressing-room just after the match and we cleared them because the team management wanted some time with the team to announce arrangements for the week ahead. It was very short, only about five minutes. It's perfectly understandable. I've often gone to a dressing-room only to be asked to wait a couple of minutes because there's a short team meeting."

On the question of the next Cork football manager's identity, Forbes said that it wasn't a matter of urgency. Tompkins is expected to step down after the weekend's disappointing conclusion to his seventh year in charge but he wasn't available for comment yesterday. His management's two-year term of office expired with the defeat.

"Nothing will be done in the near future," said the county chairman. "We'll let the dust settle and the team won't have any matches until the league starts next February. All the other seven teams are still involved at intercounty level and the focus will be on them. The matter could be raised at the county board meeting (tonight) but I'm not anticipating anything."

Forbes also said the new dispensation granted to the county senior hurling manager Donal O'Grady - the authority to choose his own selectors - would not necessarily extend to the next senior football appointments. "That will be a matter for the county board," said the chairman. "No decision has been taken in relation to that yet."

Speculation about the next football manager has begun with local bookmakers Cashman's quoting Tompkins's predecessor Billy Morgan, who took the county to back-to-back All-Irelands in 1989-90, at 6 to 1 on with other contenders at 10 to 1. Tompkins himself is available at 50 to 1.