Dour games tough calls for referees

I don’t often agree with Pat Spillane but he was 100% right when he said yesterday’s TV games were hard to sit through.

They were dour matches and in that respect difficult ones for the referees but I thought both Michael Duffy in Castlebar and Cormac Reilly did well.

I criticised Duffy last year but on this occasion there weren’t many reasons to find fault.