League defeats were not part of plan, insists Cody

KILKENNY boss Brian Cody admits that some observers probably felt his side had slipped back early this season – particularly after three league defeats.

“Coming in from the league I’d say some people were saying ‘their time is up’ and even against Dublin, we won well on the scoreboard and Dublin didn’t play well, but we didn’t play particularly well.

“We’d a huge amount of wides against Galway, we created a lot of chances in the first half against Cork we were very, very good but the second day we weren’t and coming in we lost Brian (Hogan) and Henry (Shefflin) in the first half, it wasn’t all smooth but smooth is not all that important either.”