Young Tipperary players 'bring no fear because they have no baggage,' says Liam Cahill

In the aftermath of last weekend's defeat of Waterford in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Tipperary manager Liam Cahill said “I’m really proud that the players got their reward today. To be one of the three teams to get out of Munster was a big target for us.

“The younger players bring energy to the set-up, and they bring no fear because they have no baggage and they come into a set-up where they are mad eager to embrace everything we do.

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“They’re probably that little bit more in touch with the way the game has evolved as well, and as I said the last two and a half years here have been difficult, because there’s been a lot of work to do.

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"It’s a little element of culture, a little element of what our game style was, and to change it to come in line with what’s needed to take on the big teams that are out there. And the key was to get the right players in the dressing room who would embrace that, and I think now that we have a mix of a number of younger players with the real genuine, more experienced cohort, it’s a lovely balance at the moment”.

He said that bringing different players into the team “might be difficult-looking calls to the public, because you’re not inside at training every night. But these are calls that you have to stay honest with your players, and if someone is putting their hand up in training you have to reward it.

“We’re very fortunate in Tipperary that we have a lot of players that can play different positions, they can transition across into different roles”.