Pat Ryan and Liam Cahill in favour of pre-season comps

HANDSHAKES ALL ROUND: Tipperary manager Liam Cahill, left, and Cork manager Pat Ryan shake hands after the Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League Final. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Cork’s Pat Ryan and his Tipperary counterpart Liam Cahill have said pre-season competitions are extremely helpful to new managers such as themselves so as to get players to adapt to their ways of thinking.

A Croke Park taskforce, back in 2020, proposed the abolition of pre-season competitions, but they were subsequently spared the axe last year.