Galway's Leinster SHC final defeat to Kilkenny turned out to be a blessing in disguise according to the long-serving David Collins.

A regular on the Tribesmen's panel since 2004, Collins explained to The Irish Times: "I think, in hindsight, it was a great thing to lose it because we now reassessed what we had to do.

"We know what Kilkenny's strong points are. Their workrate was fantastic that day but if you look back it was our mistakes that cost us that game in terms of turnovers, drops, shots, everything.

"I think we had a 45 per cent accuracy rate where we shot 29 times and scored 14. That's the stuff you need to get down to."

Anthony Cunningham's charges put the lessons they learnt from the Bob O'Keeffe Cup decider into practice against Tipperary in the last four.

"The intensity and workrate required to beat Kilkenny is going to be twice what we brought to Tipperary.

"I'm looking forward to it and I believe we are in the right frame of mind with the right attitude to do it.

"Going to be some day. Hopefully!"

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