Galway win was huge - Ryan
August 12, 2014
Tipperary selector Michael Ryan
The Premier County produced a fantastic performance to overwhelm the Tribesmen for what was Eamon O'Shea's first championship win as manager. Since then, they've been on a roll. Cork await in Sunday's All-Ireland semi-final...
"It was huge for this management team to get that first championship win," Ryan conceded in The Irish Examiner. "It was becoming an issue, the facts were if we didn't, we'd have been the first management team to have lost all their championship games in two years. It's not the kind of thing we set out to achieve.
"We didn't expect it to be easy, we knew how difficult this was going to be. The game has changed, we're now looking at a far more level playing field.
"I think the relief you would have seen in the Stadium the evening we beat Galway was all about that. We chased a game that could easily have slipped away, and the performance for the final 20 minutes was almost perfect.
"It gave us a huge sense of satisfaction and relief. It gave something to the fans, it said this is what we want, that we were willing to take the risks and be beaten but once you play, you have to play." Tweet
