Benny Dunne believes he can still play a match-winning role for Tipperary, despite not having started a championship game for them in three years.

The Toomevara clubman has had to adapt to a bench role since 2007, but insists that he can still play a vital role for the Premier County.

"With the modern game, the five substitutes that come in, in championship in particular, are as important as the 15 guys that are starting," he said ahead of Sunday's Munster hurling final against Waterford.

"The intensity of the game is gone through the roof, in my opinion. Nowadays, from No 5 right through to 12, that's where the engine room is. To last 70 minutes in that kind of intensity, it's asking an awful lot. The guys that are asked to come in for 20 minutes, half an hour, whatever it is, their job is as important as the guys that are starting. That's the nature of the game."

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