Tim Floyd (sports administrator)

Tim Floyd is a Gaelic games administrator who is current secretary of the Tipperary County Board. In this capacity he delivers a report to the county convention.[1]

Floyd is with the Newport club.[2]

In April 2014, Floyd said he was fault for the county board being fined €500 after he failed to inform the Irish Sports Council that Tipperary hurlers would not be training at Dr Morris Park on one night they had been scheduled to train in March 2013.[3]

In 2015, Floyd said that Hawk-Eye would not be deployed at Semple Stadium that year.[4] In March 2016, he announced the technology would be introduced.[5]

In September 2017, Floyd and Tipperary opposed a mooted round-robin restructuring of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, citing the sidelining of club hurling.[6]

In a December 2017 report to the county's annual convention, Floyd wrote that Jason Forde's part in an incident with Davy Fitzgerald during the 2017 National Hurling League, and for which Forde received a one-game ban, was "trivial" and that the hurler was found "guilty by association".[7][8] Floyd's contention that a "melee" (to which Forde was accused of contributing) was not defined in the Gaelic Athletic Association's rulebook led to a motion on the issue being put to the following year's GAA Congress, with one writer in The Irish Times comparing it to the then upcoming Repeal the Eighth Amendment on abortion as another "major issue [to be] voted on in 2018".[9][10]

References
  1. "Tipperary must build on their attacking potential". The Times. 14 December 2018.
  2. "Floyd backs summer club window". The Nenagh Guardian. 11 December 2019.
  3. "Tipp board fined €500 over missed drug tests". Irish Independent. 16 April 2014.
  4. "HawkEye won't decide Sunday's Munster hurling final in Thurles". The42.ie. 7 July 2015.
  5. "Semple Stadium to use HawkEye for Munster quarter-final clash". RTÉ Sport. 24 March 2016.
  6. "RTÉ survey suggests Central Council's proposed hurling restructures in doubt". RTÉ Sport. 30 September 2017.
  7. "Jason Forde 'guilty by association' following clash with Davy Fitz, says Tipp secretary". Irish Examiner. 11 December 2017.
  8. "Tipp Secretary Is Still Annoyed By Jason Forde's Punishment". Wexford Weekly. 11 December 2017.
  9. "Melee? Brawl? Hurly-burly? Defining the real issues in GAA: Has Tipperary secretary Tim Floyd opened a veritable Pandora's box for GAA legislators?". The Irish Times. 20 December 2017.
  10. "Tipperary bringing motion to Congress seeking to define 'melee'". The Irish Times. 20 December 2017.
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