Tipperary will ‘take time’ to find Peter Creedon successor, says Joe Hannigan

Tipperary football board chairman Joe Hannigan says it is not set in stone that Peter Creedon’s replacement will be pulled from the outgoing backroom team.

Creedon ended his four-year reign as Tipperary football manager in the wake of the county’s third round qualifier defeat to Tyrone on Saturday and filling the vacancy, according to Hannigan is a “massively important decision in terms of progressing Tipperary football”.

From Creedon’s backroom team, Michael O’Loughlin and Tommy Toomey are being viewed as the early front-runners for the post. O’Loughlin served as Creedon’s right-hand man since March 2012, while fellow selector Tommy Toomey oversaw Tipperary’s progression to this year’s All-Ireland U21 football decider. Toomey also worked under previous manager John Evans.