Tipperary must avoid old habits

Self-awareness has never been Tipperary’s strongest suit. 

Lar Corbett said as much last week: “There is a lot of hype and sometimes we are probably a little bit too sure of ourselves, of what we are trying to think what is going to happen next.”

It brought to mind a Brendan Cummins’ quote from 2009 we have often returned to: “I’m hoping our cycle is coming around sooner rather than later. Is this the start of a cycle? Not until you win an All-Ireland and put another one with it. Only then can you talk of cycles. In Cork and Kilkenny they win one, January comes and they think, ‘We’re no longer All-Ireland champions’. Not in Tipp. It’s a culture thing.”