Anthony Daly: Do Tipperary have the savagery to go for back-to-back titles?

Kilkenny's Jackie Tyrrell shoulders  Tipperary's Lar Corbett in the 2011 All-Ireland hurling final. Tyrrell gave himself three days of celebration before thinking about 2012. ©INPHO/Cathal Noonan

When Clarecastle met Newmarket-on-Fergus in the 1992 championship, we went into the game as raging hot favourites, not just because we were reigning county champions, but because of the way the modern tradition between the clubs had been emphatically turned on its head.