Tribesmen must match Kilkenny’s work ethic

OVER the last few months I feel there’s been a lot of begrudgery directed towards this Kilkenny team and their fantastic achievements, growing criticism over their style of play and so on.

I disagree with that criticism. If it wasn’t for Kilkenny for the last few years, hurling would have been very poor. Kilkenny play the game the way I like to see it played; there’s no bull attached to them, they’re hard, physical, on the edge, but they’re fair, and I don’t remember a single player in the last ten years who was injured from a foul blow from any Kilkenny player.

They stand up, they hurl, and they hurl with every skill there is; they’re a fantastic team, with fantastic players, and it’s no fluke that they are now going for four All-Ireland titles in-a-row.