Premier must end a decade of frustration at Kilkenny fortress

Brendan Maher may have handed over the Tipperary captaincy to Pádraic Maher last year but if the 2016 All-Ireland winning skipper gives the pre-match speech on Sunday it won’t come as any surprise.

The Division 1 final will mark his eighth visit to face Kilkenny on their home patch and each time he has come away from Nowlan Park beaten, the latest February’s one-point defeat.

Not only is Seamus Callanan the only player in the Tipperary panel to possess a league medal, he is also the only one to know what’s it like to beat Kilkenny there, having come off the bench to score two points in the 2008 Division 1 semi-final.