Corcoran not part of new Premier set-up

Former Tipperary hurler Eamon Corcoran will not be part of new senior team manager Eamon O’Shea’s backroom team.

The 2001 All-Ireland medallist has been heavily linked with a selector’s role since O’Shea’s appointment at a county board meeting last Tuesday night. But the JK Brackens club man stressed there has been no contact from O’Shea about a potential role in the Premier County set-up.

And Corcoran has revealed that he would be unable to commit in any case due to work and family commitments.

“I was flattered to see my name linked with a selector’s job but there has been no contact with Eamon,” Corcoran, 34, said. “Even if I was asked, I couldn’t get involved at this point in time. It’s something that I’d love to do in the future, a dream of mine, but it’s not possible right now because of work and the fact that I recently became a father for the first time.

“Eamon’s appointment is fantastic news for Tipperary and the county board also deserve huge credit. Eamon commands huge respect from the players and I’m expecting a big response from them in the coming weeks and months.”

Meanwhile, county board chairman Seán Nugent has backed O’Shea to iron out any disciplinary issues in the squad. Reports of indiscipline following the 18-point All-Ireland SHC semi-final defeat to Kilkenny on August 19 were discussed at a recent county board management meeting.

And Premier County top brass have agreed that “a very strict code of discipline” needs to be introduced by the new management team.

“Certainly some incidents have taken place but the rumour mill made some of those an awful lot worse than they actually were,” Nugent admitted. “But our players understand that if you want to win Munster and All-Ireland titles, you have to be very disciplined.

“Everybody should recognise this. I should also say that the players still achieved success in winning back-to-back Munster titles and the great thing about them is that they’re absolutely tremendous players to train. There’s no problem with them that way. I’m confident not that whatever little problems we had in that area [discipline] can be put behind us.”

Meanwhile, it is understood that David Power is not planning to take a break from team management, as reported this week. Power has vacated the county’s minor football management post but the 2011 All-Ireland minor winning boss is expected to step up to the U21 position.