Jake Morris insisted Tipperary want another big Allianz Hurling League campaign following their 11-point opening day win over Dublin on Saturday.
Tipp had a 100% record in the group stages last year before exiting in the semi-finals and there were suggestions Liam Cahill might alter his approach after their form dipped in the latter stages of the championship.
"It is a priority for us," Morris told RTÉ Sport.
"If we can go out every day and stay winning throughout the league that's great.
"The competitive games are great for the squad, we have loads of lads that are looking for game time.
"It's an important time of the year for lads to get the bank of work into the legs before the summer. If you don't have it you won't be ready for the summer days."
Whether the pre-season programme has been different this time or not, the Premier men were the sharper side in Parnell Park and held off a brief Dublin rally to win by 2-27 to 0-22, Morris contributing 1-04 of the total.
"They came back hard at us in the second half," said the Nenagh forward. "They had it down to four or five points at one stage.
"We struggled a bit in the third quarter. There was a bit of a breeze there, and they had their tails up.
"We gave away a lot of frees at the start of the second half, the discipline probably let us down. That gave them a foot back into the game.
"It's something that can come after half-time, whoever gets out of the traps quickest can get a bit of momentum. It's something we'll be conscious of rectifying next week.
"I don't think it was 'never in dobut' but we found another gear to kick on at the end and what's important is getting down the road with two points."
Morris was named man of the match but added: "A lot of our backs were very good today. I was probably quiet enough in the first half so you could have seen Bryan O'Meara or Ronan [Maher] getting it, we had a lot of top performers today so I'm lucky to be going home with it."
Meanwhile, Galway boss Henry Shefflin described his team's performance as "scrappy" despite the side sauntering to a 4-31 to 0-12 win over a severely weakened Westmeath.
The home side led 0-15 to 0-06 at the break having spurned a number of goal-scoring opportunities, and Shefflin said that there was plenty of improving to be done in the second half.
"The first half, probably not too happy to be honest with you," he told RTÉ Sport. "It was a very scrappy first-half performance from ourselves and left a lot to be desired when we reached half-time.
"I must say the lads did respond a bit better in the second half and obviously got the couple of goals, but a very patchy performance is how I'd describe it.
Shefflin, who revealed that the All-Ireland winning St Thomas' contingent would be unavailable for a while yet, said that the fact that visitors were missing so many players didn’t come into their mind for the league opener.
"We’ve five home games this year, this was our first one, it was the start of the National League, every team is focused on their own performance.
"That shouldn’t really matter to be honest, and that’s why come half time we were disappointed, and we expected more from this group of players."
The Tribesmen had 12 different scorers on the day and their manager said he was pleased with some of the performances of the less experienced contingent.
"We need to see some of the younger players and that’s why it was important to see Eoin Lawless, TJ Brennan doing well.
"Our midfield partnership, Gavin [Lee] and Donal [O’Shea], did well as well and Declan McLoughlin looked very threatening until he unfortunately got an injury at half time. John Cooney [did well] as well."
