Tipperary won’t be getting bogged down by two-in-a-row talk in 2020, Padraic Maher insists.
The Premier haven’t managed to retain the Liam MacCarthy Cup since way back in 1965 and their two attempts to do so during Maher’s career saw them fall short at the final and semi-final stage in 2011 and ‘17 respectively.
“It hasn't been done very often bar the Kilkenny lads,” said Maher.
“In other years, 2010 and 2016, from my own experience, there would have been a lot of emphasis on doing back-to-back but I don't think you can look at that now.
“That's very easy for me to say now but I just think from looking back on my own experience if you're going to put that pressure on yourself from the start of the year it's going to be a long year.
“You're going to drain yourself out, mentally and physically, so we'll just go back there and I think the most important thing from my experience is that we train even harder if we can at all, as much if not more than this year.
“If you'd asked me, watching Limerick win last year, watching Galway win the year before, we would have trained extra hard to come back and try to knock them off their perch.
“Other teams will be trying to do that to us after this year. We just have to make sure our own house is in order and we'll be leaving no stone unturned. With Liam [Sheedy] involved, he'll be dotting every i and crossing every t, that's for sure.”
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