Cummins driven by bitter taste of defeat

BRENDAN CUMMINS looks set to be between the posts again for Tipperary hurlers in 2010 after yesterday’s heartbreaking defeat by Kilkenny.

Cummins admitted he would have been tempted to call it a day if they had been successful in Croke Park but revealed that there is: “an element of responsibility to stay with the group”.

He said: “I will have a look at it in the next couple of months to see where I am at. A lot of it is my decision but a lot of it is Liam Sheedy’s as well. The effort and the commitment that has to be put in is just massive. Since I started back in 1993, the whole thing has just been transformed. You are like a professional player. You are training four or five nights a week, you don’t get to see your family and there are massive sacrifices to be made.’’