Cody refuses to push panic button after lacklustre display

YOU know it was a poor performance from Kilkenny and you know that Brian Cody certainly knows!

But you won't hear the Kilkenny manager speak critically of his team in public after they struggled to beat Limerick by five points in Sunday's Guinness All-Ireland hurling quarter-final.

At the same time, he conceded that a repeat of that form and they will be absent from the final for only the second time in eight years.