More to matching Cats than just muscle

We’re not paraphrasing Michael Jordan’s “Be Like Mike” advertisement for Gatorade from the early 1990s but the recent social media meme fade featuring a drawn stick man called Bill. Kilkenny may be masters of sticks but they are far from it in stature.
In last year’s All-Ireland final, the average height of their starting team was just over 6ft as it was the year before but their average weight was almost a kilogram heavier, at 85.7kg (and would have been more, if Jackie Tyrrell had been fit).