Conor Lehane reckons Cork will go all out to become the first team in 30 years to win three successive Munster SHCs.

The Rebels were caught out at the All-Ireland semi-final stage in 2017 and 2018, despite ruling the southern province, but Lehane believes it’s not practical to ease up in Munster to try to keep something in reserve for the All-Ireland series:

“You deal with a situation as it lands in front of you and inevitably that means trying to win your next game,” the Midleton man comments in The Irish Daily Star. “You’re always trying to be as competitive as you can and when we get back to the championship next year, nobody will be going out saying, ‘I think we’ll leave off trying to win Munster’.

“I know the All-Ireland is always the end goal, but you try to take the most that you can out of every game and every section of the championship. It’s a very hard one to imagine that players might say, ‘we’ll go at three-quarter pace’ or ‘we’ll take it easy’

“You’re never in a position to take it easy. It’s not as if, as players, you can even presume that you’re going to get your place in the team. With the U21s coming through this year and the likelihood that fellas will be coming into the panel, the competition for places is going to be a big battle in itself.”

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