Former Tipperary hurler Benny Dunne believes an over-reliance on Seamus Callanan was the main reason behind the Premier County's All-Ireland SHC semi-final defeat to Galway on Sunday.
Dunne joined Offaly hurler Brian Carroll, journalist Jackie Cahill and RTÉ's James Rea to discuss the Tribesmen's epic victory in 'The Long Grass' GAA podcast.
"I don't think we got enough out of the rest of our forwards when you take Seamie [Callanan] out of it," said 2010 All-Ireland winner Dunne. "He scored 3-09 out of a total 3-16.
"That's simply not good enough. You can't depend on just one player in your forward line to be functioning at 100%.
"The rest of the guys were just slightly off. Bubbles [John O'Dywer] had a quiet game, he was well-marshalled but he has been our best player all year.
"You can't bring it every day, so it's up to someone else then to step and that really didn't happen yesterday.
"The one thing you'll get with Tipp and Galway, is a pure hurling game and a shootout. Tipp will let you hurl and Galway are a bit like that as well, so you're going to get a high-scoring game when those two teams play.
"We just didn't have enough scoring forwards, compared to Galway. Their spread was a lot a more and they looked more dangerous up front than we looked.
"We never really get into our zone yesterday, especially upfront, and our full-back line was probably our best line, even though the Galway corner-forwards scored five points from play each."
Brian Carroll added: "Really it was the return from Jason Flynn and Cathal Mannion. That was the key thing.
"Both of these guys are 20. They've got an [under-21] All-Ireland semi-final on Saturday against Limerick as well. They're having a busy time of it now."
