Being written off motivated Tipperary

By Liam Hogan

 

A jubilant Liam Cahill said that everyone had the right to write the Tipperary under 21 hurlers off in the lead up to their tilt at the All-Ireland final against Cork at the Gaelic Grounds last Sunday.

His men faced a hotly tipped Cork side that had demolished Tipp by thirteen points in the Munster under-21 final at Pairc Ui Caoimh last July.

The Tipperary under-21 hurling manager, now on the shortlist to take over from former senior manager Michael Ryan, said they salvaged some pride in the win over Galway in the All-Ireland semi-final but it didn’t please everybody and left many doubts in the minds of hurling people. But the doubters found out very soon what his men were made of.

“I know it’s easy say it afterwards when you win but we were quietly confident behind the scenes,”Cahill began.

“It was always going to be a narrower gap anyway it was never going to be going to be a thirteen point gap this time round and that was for sure. It was a different set up. We knew a little bit more about Cork than we knew before the Munster final.

“Look at the end of the day you can put the plaudits on management and players but really it’s down to the players. They worked their socks off in the field. They hurled to instructions and were incredible the way they picked themselves up the way they did after the Munster final. All credit to the players,” he said.

 

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