Hugh Coughlan says Tipperary are well used to being underdogs in the Munster SFC.

As the Premier County prepare for the daunting task of hosting mighty Kerry in Sunday's provincial championship meeting at Thurles, Coughlan admits in The Irish Times that it's a familiar challenge for the perennial outsiders:

"We're nearly used to it now at this stage. It's three years in a row that we've got Kerry.

"We're after having a horrendous league campaign - back down to the dumps of Division Four. It's tough but we're trying to turn it around and get going for the game.

"We're just used to it - they're the cards we're dealt with and just go and deal with it as best we can and learn from the last two years.

"I was thinking recently that we were considered to have done well in the last two years against Kerry, in Thurles and Killarney.

"We played well for the first half but the final score was a drubbing. We were beaten by twelve points on both occasions.

"I played on a minor team that beat Kerry in the first round and there's only around two on the whole panel now. An awful lot of boys fall away but the luxury of the top tier counties is that everybody rows in together and everybody's driving for the panel.

"We just find it that bit difficult at the moment, getting a squad of 30 lads that are committed for an entire campaign, not just for a few months." Tweet

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