James Woodlock: Tipp did everything bar win the game

The Tipperary minor manager lamented a final that got away but couldn't fault his players.

COMING UP SHORT: Tipperary manager James Woodlock reacts at the end of the minor final. Pic: ©INPHO/Stephen Heaney

James Woodlock said his Tipperary team “did everything bar win the game” after being pipped at the death in an agonising All-Ireland minor final defeat to Limerick.

In an echo of the county’s U20 hurlers at the same venue last month, the Premier U17s mirrored the older cohort’s total of 18 wides to fall just short of silverware.