Lar Corbett repaid the Tipperary management's faith in him with a top notch display in the drawn All-Ireland final - and coach Paudie O'Neill is looking for more of the same in the replay.

"Lar Corbett, he is an exceptional talent," O'Neill said to The Irish Daily Star.

"It's a privilege to work with him on the training ground. But I think what people don't appreciate about him is, Larry has an incredibly deep understanding of the game.

"And he's a very deep thinker of the game. And I enjoy engaging with him because he has unique insights into it."

O'Neill added that the Premier management never doubted the Thurles Sarsfields star's ability when things weren't going well for him earlier in the campaign.

"Absolutely not, genuinely.

"We would have felt that he was in great form and he was working hard and contributing a lot in terms of his experience as a group.

"2001 was his first All-Ireland (final win), so he has massive experience."

Meanwhile, Tipp's recent record against the Cats is not cause for concern for O'Neill ahead of Saturday's replay.

"It was bubbling away in the background but there is a history between teams. Those are facts. But facts are facts. History can also be a distraction.

"We weren't going out thinking 'we've played Kilkenny 'X' number of times and we have or haven't beaten them however many times.

"We just went out on whatever day it was and it's the same for the next day.

"So what happened the last day, that's history. At some stage you have to draw a line under it and say there's another game to be played."

 

 

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