Complacency or commitment not to blame for Tipp's failure to retain All-Ireland crowns, says McGrath

Complacency or commitment not to blame for Tipp’s failure to retain All-Ireland crowns, says McGrath

Noel McGrath has admitted that retaining the All-Ireland remains a huge ambition and rubbished claims that previous Tipperary teams he was involved in didn’t try hard enough to do so. McGrath, the PwC GAA/GPA Player of the Month for August following his man-of-the-match display in Tipperary’s All-Ireland final, was also part of the county’s 2010 and 2016 triumphs.

Tipp failed to retain the title in 2011 and 2017 and even Liam Sheedy acknowledged in early 2017 that “we’re not a county that does back to back very well”. Sheedy wasn’t in charge of Tipp at the time and added that “the scars are there for everyone to see in that regard. We have a habit of going to sleep after we get one.”