Will we see Tipp day one or Tipp day two?

There is no doubt whatsover that if you are in the Tipperary camp now, things are hard. From the outside looking in, you would often wonder do players know what's going on on the outside, do they hear the talk, or are they solely in the bubble?

The answer to that question is, you do hear things. In this day and age, with social media especially you see things. Remember, players are in college, meet up with buddies and have jobs to go to.

Generally, on a daily basis you are going to be meeting people. And as much as you might want to keep yourself to yourself, it's very hard.

Obviously everybody knows the players that are missing this weekend for Tipperary for a whole host of reasons, and that will be the talk going into the game, and that is exactly what the players will have to listen to.

The conundrum is, will it seep into the mind and affect them, or will they be able to block it off totally?

But if we go back a step, to 17 April, when Tipperary had to go down to Walsh Park and try to overcome Waterford, nobody gave them a pup's chance, me included.

Bar a 15-minute spell in the second half, Tipperary were every bit as good as Waterford that day, and brought them right down to the wire. They played great hurling, worked very hard and very, very easily could have got a result down there.

Of that team that started, Jason Forde is going to be missing from that forward line, as is Conor Bowe. Jayo was taken off after 59 minutes and didn't look like himself at all, while Conor Bowe was whipped at half-time.

Dan McCormack came on after 44 minutes and made a big impact, and he will probably start again this weekend. John McGrath only came on with four minutes to go and didn’t really have much involvement in the game, so while he will