Tipperary hurlers must 'turn the page quickly' for their trip to Cork

Tipperary’s Bryan O’Mara tries to hook Limerick’s Kyle Hayes during Sunday’s game in Thurles, which ended in a draw. Picture: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

placeholder image — Tipperary’s Bryan O’Mara tries to hook Limerick’s Kyle Hayes during Sunday’s game in Thurles, which ended in a draw. Picture: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

'Massive task' awaits team at Pairc Uí Chaoimh

After their great performance against Limerick in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship last weekend, the trick for the Tipperary hurlers will be to replicate that performance against Cork this Sunday, something of which manager Liam Cahill is only too well aware.

“We have to turn the page very quickly now for seven days’ time down in Cork, and try and close a ten-point deficit from the league final, which is going to be a massive task as well.

“All in all I’m very proud of my players and really delighted to be the one helping them at the moment with the honesty that’s in that dressing room,” he said after Sunday’s humdinger.

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“The league final, we went down to try and win the match, that goes without saying, but you know when you’re in a dressing room in the Munster championship that the edge is there.

“You’re going to need five points to get out the gap (and qualify for the All-Ireland championship), simple as, and where they come from I don’t know. And you just have to go after them every day.

“We have to go down to Cork and we really have to go after a massive performance again. And then we have a tough assignment going up to Ennis to play the All-Ireland champions”.

How better prepared are they to take on Cork than they were in the league final two weeks ago?

“Cork really have so much in their armoury, it’s quite difficult to pinpoint exactly what they will bring next week because they have such a variety. They’re the one team that has pace, skill, power, strength, but I definitely think on the Cork puckout and our puckout, there’s gains to be made by ourselves. I don’t think you have to be a genius to have seen that after the league final.

"They’re areas we have to go after, we have to be braver on ours and we have to be really together on theirs to give ourselves any chance.

“It’s a ten-point deficit, some people in Tipperary will think it’s more than that. That’s fine too, but we’ll go down and we’ll represent the jersey with everything we’ve got again”.