Kilkenny look to have greater scope for improvement

ANYBODY with an eye for statistics would have discovered after last Sunday’s drawn Guinness All-Ireland hurling quarter-final in Croke Park that the last time Kilkenny scored 1-13 they were beaten.

Interestingly, that was in the semi-final of 2001, when they were All-Ireland champions and Galway ran them off their feet to finish eight points clear. They would have suffered a similar fate but for the brilliance of James McGarry in goal in Croke Park last Sunday.

Brian Cody certainly wasn’t carried away by Kilkenny’s huge win over Galway, posing the rhetorical question in this paper a week ago - “I wonder is too much being made of it”.