Top Cat completely focused

YOU won’t ever hear Brian Cody talking up his Kilkenny team. Indeed the All-Ireland winning manager spends most of his media days deflecting plaudits and downplaying their status as a side for the ages.

Cody said: “As soon as you buy into that kind of stuff, you just disappear overnight. It’s my responsibility to make sure that doesn’t happen. And it won’t happen.

“The same challengers are there as ever. I’m saying it all the time, there’s seven or eight top hurling counties.