Tompkins not ready to decide future

IT’S TOUGH for any manager in any situation to watch his side being beaten, but when it’s happening in an All-Ireland semi-final, when it’s on live television and in front of a live audience of nearly fifty thousand, and when they’re not just being beaten but being bloodied, battered and bruised, well, then, it’s a little tougher.

Tompkins not ready to decide future

Throw in the fact that they are up against their oldest and most bitter rivals, that they’ve already beaten those rivals in their own provincial final, and you begin to imagine how Larry Tompkins was feeling about five o’clock yesterday afternoon.

After six years in charge, six frustrating seasons in which the Holy Grail has eluded the former multiple All-Star, time perhaps to start thinking of another way to spend his spare time.

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