Kearns - win or lose, we have to come back next year
June 30, 2016
Tipperary manager Liam Kearns speaks to his team before the Munster SFC semi-final clash against Cork at Semple Stadium, Thurles.
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Regardless of how Sunday goes, Liam Kearns says it's imperative that Tipperary are back in the 2017 Munster SFC final.
The former Limerick and Laois manager has steered the Premier County past Waterford and Cork and into this weekend's provincial decider against his native Kerry:
"Whatever happens on Sunday, we have got to get back to a Munster final next year or the year after," the Tralee man told The Irish Examiner. "It can't be 14 years before you get back to another Munster final again because you are just not making progress if that is the case. Then you can start to say you are not going away and are consistently there.
"As Darragh Ó Sé said, 'you don't want them getting notions'. That's the reality. If they beat us well and we don't come back to a Munster final for another 10 or 15 years, that is what they have done.
"That was my perspective with Limerick - the more times we got back to a Munster final, the better and the more competitive we got.
"It's an intimidating task to do and play Kerry in Killarney but the mantra before the Cork game was to produce our best performance and see where that takes us and we are going in with the same attitude. If we do that, I can't ask any more of them as a manager."
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