Kilkenny losses ‘showed us the way’

Harsh lessons learned from Kilkenny down the years were central to this Galway victory, according to winning-captain Andy Smith.

Seamus Callanan bagged three goals for Tipperary, but on each occasion Galway hit the next two scores; they would hit four without reply in the aftermath of Callanan’s third green flag on 53 minutes to regain the lead.

“The way we responded to each of their goals, you learn that from playing Kilkenny. Every time you get a goal against Kilkenny they seem to come back and rally to get the next point and that is vital that you do that. We have to look at the clips again, but there were probably some soft goals there. There was a lot of space in front of Callanan,” Smith said.