Just another day at the office

AFTER Kilkenny’s demolition of Galway in Thurles, it wasn’t a stretch to visualise a dressing room scenario beforehand of newspaper cuttings around the walls depicting Brian Cody’s team as a spent force and predicting the end of the road for them.

Even before the final whistle sounded, you were left wondering what had really motivated the champions.

What best explained the awesome power in their hurling and the intensity of their play, what was responsible for Cody ‘driving’ his team on from the sideline with such passion?