Kilkenny still team to beat

THE relief in the Wexford dressingroom was palpable.

They had just got out of jail in a cracker of a Leinster senior hurling championship semi-final, emerging victors by one point in a game they seemed destined to lose for most of the seventy minutes.

Even accepting that they mounted a tremendous second half comeback, wiping out an intimidating seven point interval deficit in the process, team manager John Conran was utterly frank and honest in his assessment of the game.