Cody credits hunger for Cats’ victory over Cork

KILKENNY manager Brian Cody credits hunger for the Cats’ All-Ireland hurling victory over Cork this year and is already looking forward to 2007.

“Hunger can’t be invented, you can’t just grab it,” said Cody. “We hadn’t won since 2003 and we hadn’t been in the final last year, so the hunger was there.

“Most people would have expected Cork to win the All-Ireland and, when we lost JJ Delaney, people would have definitely expected Cork to win – understandably so.