Who said Kilkenny don’t do tactics?

Who said Kilkenny don’t do tactics?

For years now, we’ve been listening to this stuff that Kilkenny don’t do tactics. Kilkenny keep saying it and everyone seems to believe it but yesterday confirmed for me that they’re the most tactical team in the country.

I watched the game from behind the Canal End goal and they played it so smart with their set-up especially in the second half. Their defence seemed to drag the Galway attack into a funnel and Kilkenny just savaged them inside in that vortex. Paul Murphy, Cillian Buckley, Joey Holden and Kieran Joyce hit anything that moved and then just swept up the broken pieces. Richie Hogan sat in the pocket outside them and just mopped up any other loose stuff that came his way.