Model chiefs consider next move

WEXFORD GAA chiefs will review replays of Limerick’s controversial late point which denied them a place in the last eight of the All-Ireland SFC.

Model County officials had a close eye on the Sunday Game last night and have also asked RTÉ for a tape of their footage from the game in Portlaoise.

Sources close to the county board admit they may call an executive meeting in the next 48 hours to consider their next course of action.

If the players’ views are anything to go by, there will be action.

Goalkeeper Anthony Masterson was livid with the decision by referee Derek Fahy to count Ian Ryan’s free after consulting with his umpires although they were initially in disagreement.

Masterson said: “It looked like it was a yard wide. It’s just mind-baffling. We’ve given up so much of our life and a decision like that cost us the game.

“Granted, we let them back in the game, that shouldn’t have happened, but when games come down to things like that, like, you give up so much time of your life and you train so much and you give up everything.

“And a decision like that, it costs you your championship.”

Masterson believes the two teams were seen as providing the weakest qualifier game of the weekend and suggested they were treated as such.

“It’s typical of the GAA: Wexford and Limerick stuck away into Portlaoise, given a bad referee, let them go at the championship. Worry about all the other teams, put them in Croke Park. [It’s] pure typical like — [a] decision like that.

“Absolutely mind-baffling.

“Decisions like that shouldn’t happen in the GAA.”

Wing-back Adrian Flynn commented on Twitter on Saturday night: “Here’s me not able to sleep a wink all night and I’m sure Derek Fahy and his umpires are sleeping soundly, that umpire swore it was wide.

“Shocking decision considering it wasn’t even a free, I’ve always said it, he’s the worst ref in the country. He’s a...... #calmdown.”

In response to Flynn’s remark, his teammate Adrian Morrissey wrote: “Derek Fahy should be struck off the inter county panel, not capable of doing an under 12 match. Umpires and refs ruining games.”