Cats purring along as tame Cork get an early licking
In doing so they also assumed pole position to qualify for their third Allianz Hurling League final in four years. Is the League important, or is it not? Are Kilkenny ahead of Cork again, or were the Rebels just caught cold? The answer to the first question depends on which manager you spoke to, after yesterday’s encounter. The answer to the second, well, we’ll just have to wait and see.
“We came here to win the match, and we did that,” said Kilkenny manager Brian Cody, but what he said during a bruising game - to his players, to the referee, to the linesman - was even more emphatic, as was the animated way in which he said it.
