Kilkenny's minor footballers were thrown to the wolves on Saturday afternoon as they were resoundingly beaten by Wexford in the minor Leinster Championship.
The Cats were on the wrong end of a 70-point defeat, prompting many to criticise the county board for allowing a team under their care to be so ill-prepared for a game.
Speaking on KCLR96fm, county board chairman Ned Quinn accepted responsibility for the result and apologised to the players.
“As chairman of the county board, I have overall responsibility for all of our county teams so I accept my responsibilities as regards our minor football team as I do with any other team," Quinn told John Masterson.
"The second thing I would like to say, with the aid of hindsight, is to express very much regret that the young players who represented our county, and were more than willing to represent their county last Saturday, suffered the defeat that they did and I will apologise to them for what happened to them during the game on Saturday."
Many questioned whether the county should be allowed field a team but Quinn insisted he was opposed to discontinuing football in the county, a traditional hurling stronghold.
"In the lead up to the game, by our own standards, preparations had gone well. Nobody envisaged what was about to happen but it did happen on the day and I would apologise to everybody for that.
"I will say in the GAA in Kilkenny that over the years we've got a lot of things right.
"We have never been able to get football to where we’d like to get it to and we will have to deal with these issues starting tomorrow night, when we will have an executive meeting of the management committee of the county board."
You can listen to the full interview below.
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