Gavin O'Mahony hopes the referee will let Sunday's Munster SHC opener ebb and flow.

O'Mahony's Limerick travel to Semple Stadium to lock horns with Tipperary and O'Mahony feels that the magic of Munster championship hurling can only come through if the man in the middle lets both teams get stuck in:

"Fellas are definitely better conditioned and stronger, but with the Munster championship all you want really is for a referee to go along with the game and leave it flow.

"There'll always be the odd fracas but once no-one's injured and fellas can get up and play away, that's the main thing," he says in The Examiner.

"That's why people love the Munster championship - similar maybe to the Ulster football championship, maybe - every team feels on their day they can turn over the opposition.

"When it comes to refereeing, as long as we feel we can give it a fair lash, that's all we want." Tweet

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