Eamon O'Shea's final game in charge of Tipperary may not have had a happy ending, but he wasn't making any excuses after the heart-breaking defeat to Galway.

O'Shea will hand the reins over to Michael Ryan in 2016 after the Liam MacCarthy Cup proved elusive during his three years as manager.

"I had my innings with Tipp. It was bloody . . . it was great," an emotional O'Shea is quoted in the Irish Times.

"We did what we could. We tried to play the game in a particular way. There are men in Tipperary who can carry this on. I just feel that we gave it everything every time we went out. We tried to win.

"We didn't always win. We were beaten by a point, beaten by three points. It doesn't look great sometimes but we did our utmost to win these games.

"I said to the players, the belief I have in them and the belief I have that they can continue and go on and grow better when I'm not there is really strong. Somebody else will go on and do this better than I did. That's all you can do.

"I'm old enough now to know that I had a real good shot at it. I had a real good shot and I really, really tried to play the game the way I wanted to play the game and the way they wanted to play the game."

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