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Nine years without an All-Ireland title might not be a problem for a lot of counties, but when you've won more in your code than anyone else as Kilkenny have managed, it's tantamount to a catastrophe.
Replacing the great Brian Cody in the Kilkenny hot seat might have been viewed as a poisoned chalice but Derek Lyng has the chance to join an exclusive club today: managers to win the All-Ireland hurling title in their first year in charge.
"We'd played two games and been bate in both games. It was a case of... what's another year? Simple as that."
Ahead of a second successive Kilkenny-Limerick decider, Jackie Tyrrell and Shane Dowling join Jacqui Hurley and Rory O'Neill to preview this year's final.
His first year in the job and already Derek Lyng seems to be leaving an all-too familiar imprint on the Kilkenny senior hurling team.
Conor Fogarty and his Kilkenny team-mates will focus on performing to the best of their considerable abilities in Sunday's All-Ireland SHC final, rather than fixate on a formidable opponent who the Erin's Own clubman describes as having "very few weaknesses".
In the wake of a bad defeat, managers will usually say something about reviewing the tapes and assessing what went wrong before learning from it and coming again.
