Tipperary secretary Tim Floyd insists the Premier County's hurlers are good role models.
Eamon O'Shea's players filled a lot of column inches during the early summer when The Tipperary Star ran a piece suggesting that they had participated in a two-day bender following their Munster SHC exit at the hands of Limerick:
"A lot of blood-letting was experienced over the following week as a local newspaper printed an article which caused major public reaction," Floyd writes in his address to Convention.
"This opened the whole debate on amateur players whose hobby is hurling and who are not contracted to anyone, but yet the public expect them to behave like professionals.
"In all walks of life we have role models, especially in sport, and impressionable youth are influenced by what they see and hear and very often try to emulate them. In the main these influences are good and our hurlers and footballers are a credit to their clubs and county.
"Isolated incidents occur in all walks of life and hurling is no exception. I have seen our players grow in maturity over the past six years. A clear vision and focus (on) winning trophies is their priority."
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