Glenn Ryan could be in hot water with the CCCC after he criticised the performance of referee Jerome Henry following Kildare’s agonising All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-final exit at the hands of Monaghan on Saturday.

The Kildare manager also questioned why All-Ireland referee David Gough – who was on linesman duty in Tullamore – wasn’t the ‘man in the middle’ after some crucial decisions went against the Lilywhites.

“Our job is to try and prepare the team and get them out on the pitch for the lads to try and do the best that they can. It’s other people’s jobs to make sure they get decisions right as to who officiates these games,” he told reporters.

“Funny enough, someone said to me this week that this man is out of his depth. And he proved tonight that he was out of his depth.

“I can’t understand in a big game like that, you have a top-class official like David Gough doing the line who was equally scratching his head on the line with me on occasions.

“But we had opportunities to win the game and we didn’t take them. Our lads battled and worked hard and that’s all you can ask of them.”

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