Doyle says defeat by Clare will serve as wake-up call

IN the face of severe adversity, a defiant Michael Doyle warned yesterday that Tipperary won’t lie down and die despite being eclipsed by Clare in the first round of the Guinness Munster SHC at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

“Understandably we are bitterly disappointed. We hate losing to anyone. But I am convinced that this will serve as a wake-up call for us. We will regroup in a week’s time, we will sit down and analyse what went wrong on this occasion,” he said.

“We will get our act together and get this defeat, chastening though it was, out of our system. If we are men at all, we will come back from this disaster, bigger and braver.”