A weekend Tipp will want to forget

 

Tipperary senior football manager David Power said his sides poor performance in the defeat to Derry last Sunday aptly summed up their experience of the weekend.

The game was only formally given the go ahead at Celtic Park around ninety minutes before throw-in after initially failing an 8.00am pitch inspection but a second one, on the advice of Croke Park, was undertaken at 11.00am by match referee Jerome Henry who travelled from Mayo and gave it the go ahead with Tipperary keen to get the came on.

“The whole weekend has been a bit of a farce,” Power began.

“This weather was well known and it should have been pulled on Friday night by Croke Park. When it wasn't and the fact we were up here, we wanted to play because we didn't want to be coming back up to Derry again next weekend.

“We were up here since last night, we wanted to play.

“Once this morning came around, what annoyed me more was there should have been way more clarity earlier. There was a lot of confusion. I'm not trying to make excuses, far from it, but all those things did not help us today.”

 

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