 Following Tipp's drawn game with Limerick in the opening round of the championship, Cummins was sensationally dropped by manager Babs Keating in favour of his understudy Gerry Kennedy.Cummins remained sidelined for all subsequent games, and saw Tipp exit the championship with a defeat by Wexford in the All-Ireland quarter-final.Speaking in 2013 about being dropped in 2007, Cummins said "2007 was certainly a challenge but I’d always preached that the team was the most important thing, now it was my turn to practise what I was preaching, my main focus was Gerry Kennedy — he was a young fella caught in the middle of a storm.