We’re ready to get physical

They’re playing it down, but Tipperary and James Woodlock are ready to prove they can win a battle with Waterford, says Diarmuid O’Flynn.

The only thing that’s left over from last year is that they beat us, and unless we beat them now we’re not going to be proven against Waterford, they are still going to be the better team. Obviously we were gutted, we were devastated... all we can do is store that into our memory bank, and we’ll use that coming out tomorrow.

TIPPERARY and Waterford provide an attractive pairing for the Munster senior hurling final in this, the 125th season of the GAA’s existence. Spicing it up though, adding a bit of fire, is the fact that in last year’s All-Ireland semi-final, with Tipp hotly-fancied to advance and meet Kilkenny in a dream decider, Waterford bucked the odds.