Kilkenny manager Brian Cody and his Tipperary counterpart Eamon O'Shea have both shrugged off suggestions that the three-week wait for the All-Ireland hurling final replay could be a distraction to the players.
The sides meet at Croke Park again on Saturday (throw-in 5pm), 20 days after a thrilling drawn final.
"It's exaggerated, thinking too much about the fact that you are playing in three weeks' time," the Cats boss told The Irish Daily Star.
"All those players are so used to playing three weeks after a big game anyway, or two weeks, or in some cases six weeks afterwards.
"You talk about how do you manage a six-week gap between a Leinster final and an All-Ireland semi-final or a two-week gap? The expertise is there to manage the gap.
Kilkenny won their last All-Ireland title in 2012 after defeating Galway in a replay but Cody was adamant that experience would give his side no particular edge in managing preparation.
"The players themselves are so accustomed to it, they know how to recover and do the right thing. It's not a case of 'did we learn something in 2012?'," he said.
"I don't think we did learn anything in particular that's going to help us in this case at all.
"Different people [have been] asking 'do you have an advantage over Tipperary?'. We don't have any advantage. They have the expertise as well."
Tipp's O'Shea said that waiting three weeks as opposed to one was actually preferable, to give players the chance to recover physically and mentally from the high-profile occasion.
“I would say if the replay was played the weekend after, then both teams would have been very tired,” he told The Irish Times.
"We don't have any advantage. They have the expertise as well." - Brian Cody
“I really think so. Because the All-Ireland final is such a big day in the players’ life, and they really do have to come back down from it a bit.
“I can’t speak from huge experience about having three weeks to prepare again, but it’s been ideal, really, in that the first week was about recovery.
"The second week was about getting a bit more work done. And this week is about tapering again.
“In economics there is a term called ‘ceteris paribus’, where everything is held constant. But nothing stays constant in this game. Everything changes. Every game is going to be different.
"Even though it will be against the same opposition, there will be different circumstances, different conditions, different everything.
“That drawn game is gone. The All-Ireland final of 2014 the first day is over. There will be different circumstances, and we’ll try to approach it like that.
"So it’s less about improvement, really. It’s more about adjustment, to different circumstances. That’s the way we approach it.”
Live coverage of Kilkenny v Tipperary in the All-Ireland hurling final replay from 4.15pm on RTÉ2 (throw-in 5pm). Watch live on RTÉ Player (Ireland only) and worldwide via GAAGO. Live radio coverage on RTÉ Radio 1.
