Wounded Cats won’t lack impetus
Time after time, the Thursday night before a game, they sat in Nowlan Park and told stories.
They recalled old matches, decided what scores needed settling, dug around inside each other for motivation.
Cody would always remember a game, a time, an incident that would come back into your head when you were shaving the next morning.
Phelan remembered a simple query posed to JJ Delaney the Thursday before he was due to face Eugene Cloonan again, after he had struggled the time before.
“And what, JJ, are you going to do about that on Sunday?”
Sometimes, in the presence of such excellence, Cody had to search around that bit harder for lessons to learn. He will have had no such difficulty this week.
Whether they watched the video or not, Kilkenny will have lived that Leinster final malfunction since. This time, only JJ and a couple of others who missed out, will not feature in the horror stories.
Limerick should travel without fear, but you fear for them all the same.
