Waterford football boss Ephie Fitzgerald was unhappy with how he and his team were treated by the match officials during Sunday's one point defeat to Sligo.
The Déise finished with eleven men as Dylan Guiry, Dermot Ryan and Michael Curry received red cards while Jason Curry got a black card in injury time.
" I couldn’t ask any more of the players. To come out against a big, strong wind in the second half and put up that kind of a performance, we definitely deserved to get something out of the game. I’m just so disappointed for them the way it worked out. I asked the referee to talk to me at half time, one of the officials was told to close the door on me and he said he would talk to me at full time. I asked to speak to him at full time and he said he wouldn’t speak to me. The fourth official told me to get back in there. We’re not children. I’m 60 years of age, I’m at this game all my life and I know how hard officialdom is. Their attitude towards us, I just don’t understand it. I questioned that we should have got a free in instead of a free out in the first half and I was told to stop and all this kind of stuff. It’s disheartening. We’re trying to improve our lads and to be dealing with that, it just beggars belief to be honest.”
