Michael Ryan: ‘The trick is to get to that fight-it-out stage a bit earlier’

Nine points down against Cork, 11 points down to Waterford yesterday, Michael Ryan knows it’s character, not hurling, that has kept Tipperary alive in the Munster SHC.

“Look, if that’s just thickness fair enough, we’re just thick. But that’s what we are. We’re here to play and we don’t give in.

“Matches, time and time again, super matches have been won in the last two minutes of the game or the last 30 seconds.