Cody: grit and guts gave us the edge

AND so, with the last league game of the season, the hurling season really explodes into life.

A damp squib was what was being predicted for Croke Park yesterday, a lifeless pre-championship workout in front of a small crowd cowering for shelter from the expected broken showers in the cavernous new stadium, between two sides with bigger things on their minds.

Tipperary face Clare in two week’s time in the Munster championship. As for Kilkenny, well they won this last year, didn’t they?