Padraic Maher insists that the target for the year is to get back to Croke Park on All-Ireland final day and avenge last year's humbling defeat to Kilkenny but Tipperary's new vice-captain is not looking past the Munster championship quarter-final clash with Limerick.
Were the reigning provincial champions to negotiate what has the potential to be a tricky encounter against the resurgent Shannonsiders, now under the tutelage of John Allen, they would face Jimmy Barry-Murphy's Cork, joint-third favourites to get their hands on the Liam McCarthy Cup, in the last four.
"We will need to on our toes for that one," the Thurles Sarsfields clubman told Hogan Stand.
"Limerick improved a lot last year under Donal O'Grady and they will be aiming to build on that progress under John Allen this year. They won the Munster U21 championship last year and were desperately unlucky to lose to Waterford in the senior. They have a great crop of young players coming along and there will be no fear in them.
"They'd love nothing better than to come to Thurles and take the Munster title off us. If we take them for granted or underestimate them in any way, they'll beat us. But there's a lot of hurling to be played between now and then. Our short-term goal is to give the league a good rattle and to get the form and confidence up."