Jackie Tyrrell says Henry Shefflin needs to win something with Galway this year.

Shefflin is in his third year as Tribesmen boss, but has yet to claim major silverware.

"I think he’s scratching his head a small bit," Tyrrell said of his former Kilkenny team-mate on the RTÉ GAA podcast.

"I would say knowing Henry he would have felt that he would have been a bit further down the road with this Galway team when he took them over.

"It’s kind of like it has the same feel to other Galway managers outside of Micheál Donoghue who have come in with a good pool base in front of them and haven’t really got to any kind of major milestones like a Leinster (title).

"Getting to an All-Ireland, you take Micheál Donoghue out of the equation, none of the previous managers, Ger Loughnane, go back to John McIntyre, you could throw them all into that pool.

"I would say with Henry’s ambitions he would have liked to be a bit different than those and probably looked to emulate Micheál Donoghue.

"At this point you can’t say, on any given milestone, that he has hit them, so it’s a big, big year for Henry."

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