Cody refuses to be drawn on departures of Carter, McEvoy

BRIAN CODY is maintaining a dignified silence on the departure of Charlie Carter and Brian McEvoy from the Kilkenny hurling panel. He has refused to make any comment at all so far on the controversy, either locally or nationally and has not indicated if he will respond.

However, sources close to the management team of Cody, Noel Skehan and Johnny Walsh confirmed that the trio are not unduly worried by the developments and that they view media comments of a ‘deep crisis’ in the camp as fanciful.

They will not have been surprised by the decision of Carter to opt out, but may have been taken unawares by McEvoy’s retirement. However, it’s fair to assume that they would have been surprised at the very least that neither player communicated his decision directly to Cody.