Tipp expectation is no weight, insists Ronan Maher

After Tipperary beat Waterford in Thurles, manager Michael Ryan said he’d have to get lessons in taking sideline cuts from Ronan Maher, who cut over a beauty.

The Thurles Sarsfields clubman laughed when reminded of the score: “I’ve been hitting them all the time with my club so I’m very used to it, but there’s a lot of natural good forwards in Tipp, Noel McGrath and Bubbles and John McGrath.

“If you put one wide you won’t have long standing over the next one.