DECLAN FANNING BELIEVES that former Tipperary senior hurling manager Eamon O’Shea has left a legacy “that will be seen for the next ten years.”
Fanning joined O’Shea’s backroom team for the 2015 campaign and has been confirmed as one of Michael Ryan’s right hand man for next year’s campaign.
Fanning, a 2010 All-Ireland senior hurling championship medallist, also revealed that former Olympic sprinter Gary Ryan will remain on board in the new regime, along with strength and conditioning coach Lukasz Kirszenstein.
Fanning told Tipp FM: “I’m very excited, to be honest.
“It’s been early August since we’ve been together as a group.
“Championship hurling can be harsh that way.
“We gave nine months together and then it’s gone all of a sudden on a Sunday.
“We haven’t been together since, the dark evenings are in and the lads are anxious to get going again.”
Fanning added: “Gary and Lukasz are back with us again, they’re a great combination together.
“We’re in plans at the minute putting together five or six weeks before we get going again in January. The players look forward to that, putting in a good base before they get out on the pitch.”
And Fanning believes that while Ryan will look to put his own stamp on the Tipperary team, O’Shea’s style of play will remain a hallmark.
Fanning said: “He left a lasting legacy with the players, on how to train and on certain aspects of playing the game.
“That was very important and that will be seen for the next ten years.
“There’s a group there that got three years with him and some even that got six years with him.
“Certainly going forward, a lot of the hurling that they play, you’ll see Eamon all over it and whatever we can put into that too.”
Fanning has backed Ryan, a former selector alongside Liam Sheedy and O’Shea, to be a success in his new role as manager.
“Mick is his own man, and has a wealth of experience from playing with Tipp but he gave another six years with this group and he would be a very driven Tipperary man,” Fanning added.
“The players know that and they know it will be different, and different is good, different isn’t always bad.
“At the minute, we’re finalising a panel for the start of the New Year.
“We’re just looking for people that will strengthen the team, strength the squad and give it a lease of life going forward.”
And Fanning believes that the return of Noel McGrath to full health and fitness following his battle with cancer will rejuvenate the squad.
“It’s super, he’ll be like a new player to us next year,” Fanning reflected.
“I felt Noel was hurling really well for us in the (2015) League and showing something a little bit different, that little bit of aggression was back in his hurling. We’re really looking forward to seeing Noel coming back next year and pushing on further from that.”
Hope so tipp are the only county that have no fear off kk.
If Tipp had no fear of Kilkenny I honestly think that they would have beating them more over the last few years,in 09 they panicked and got a red card,10 everything went right for them,11 they just didn’t turn up,12 they catastrophic collapse in the 2nd half,13 they somehow lost against a badly patched up KK team that was missing half and the other half were playing with injuries and then in 2014 they just couldn’t win even though it was probably the best 1-15 team performance of modern times.They all played UNREAL that day! And then this year it was like a false dawn for them.I’m a Kilkenny fan and Im not being biast but I really question that attitude.I have seen all their shortcomings in the last few years,I think that when push comes to shove that they lack something…….. I don’t know what,but Iv seen enough to have a hunch that I would question them rather than saying Kilkenny are just a great team.And this is coming from a Kilkenny man!
Absolute spot on analysis from you Ionatan with a fada ,Tipp do have the leaders in the team when it counts.
Do not not not not
I realise his commitments mean he is a busy but personally I’d love to Eamon O Shea appointed to a Director of Hurling type roll within the game, whatever your view on his successes or failure’s with, any true hurling person will have to agree that his brand of hurling and philosophy on the game is exactly where the sport should be moving. How many of the genuine hurling classics over last 6 years are down to his attacking free flowing style of hurling. Would love to see it implemented across the hurling landscape…
Hurling has always been attacking and free flowing! there was very few classics last year but overall its always been a fast paced game you cant attribute that to oshea
If they have as much success in the next 10 years as they did with O’Shea as manager it won’t be a good legacy will it!!!
@ OneDay
Does your anus ever get jealous of the sh!+ that flows from your mouth
Another article another negative comment
Negative but true. One Munster title in 3 years for a top team like Tipp is pathetic.
Brian Cody has left a legacy, forget the rest. Winning All Ireland’s is the only stat that counts. Fanning and Tipp may forget the talk of legacys and past managers as currently Tipp’s time is passing them by.
Spot on! One All Ireland from the team that was going to do a 5 in a row! Truly dreadful.
But it’s 5 titles in 8 yrs, it depends what slant you put on it OneDay, it’s your negative comments towards any other county bar Kilkenny that is pathetic
It’s one Munster title in 3 years with O’Shea as manager. There is no other slant to put on it.
All other hurling teams are rubbish. Kilkenny are the only team who are enjoyable to watch.
So OneDay I’ll ask you once again, are you a liar or just someone who jumps on the bandwagon, as you have already said you neither come from or live in kilkenny. Simple question asked, simple answer required.
No
Hon the mines, we have a shit record , 5 al Ireland’s in the last 45 years , jasus even Clare have won 3 and lads are talking about legacies , tipp hurling is a joke , all the talk after 2010 senior and 21 wins , ya tipp will be around for a long time , take a look at what has happened since = jack shit
Let’s be honest at the start of summer it’s an all ireland the big teams want not a provincial championship
“One day Frank from killkenny” is still telling porkies, poor chap has such bitterness and is so far up his own hole he is lost in in his own shite.
Some legacy lost lost lost !!
Where did ya get that from gary?
10 years of failure
Scholars full a scutter like the auld lad.
I see you don’t have the balls to show your face either , great lad hiding behind this site , a coward
Mike Meara from Toom won a lot for tipp didn’t he declan.
A lot more that you did you piece of shit
Hon the mines , I wonder who is in there let have a guess, Sean Q is that you?