Liam Cahill defends managerial approach ahead of Munster championship Clare clash

Liam Cahill insists he hasn't changed his management approach after some "lazy analysis" of the final months of his Waterford tenure.

Now in the Tipperary hot seat, Cahill replicated his strategy of targeting a strong league campaign in the same manner that delivered spring silverware to the Déise last year.

This time around, losing their semi-final to Limerick last month has given Cahill two extra weeks to sharpen Tipp’s tactics for championship.

But either way, he doesn’t see any evidence that Waterford’s fade-out was linked to their league exertions or that Tipp should suffer the same fate.

"For me, I am not changing a whole lot," said Cahill ahead of Tipp’s Munster opener away to Clare on Sunday.

"Myself and Mikey Bevans have continued to do what we believe in. We will continue to stick to what we believe will work.

"Not trying to give a soft answer but the end of the Munster Championship will prove whether we got it badly wrong last year or not.

"That was a really good league final last year in Thurles in front of a big crowd. I suppose you have to hold your form through the Munster Championship, that’s the reality of it.

"Championship is where you are judged and people’s memories are short too. That Waterford team were ultra-competitive for the last three years and a lot of it was lazy analysis.

"People didn’t really scale back and look at what these guys had achieved but the whole thing came unstuck in two or three weeks, that is all.

"Some of the analysis was unfair on what the players had achieved and where they had come from over the previous three years."

Waterford are currently outsiders to progress from Munster but they are armed with the muscle memory of a run to the 2020 All-Ireland final under Cahill.

"That Waterford