Wasteful Cats still have plenty left in the tank

SO many times it’s been said — goals win matches; so many times it’s been said also about this Kilkenny team, that they are a veritable goal-scoring machine. Well, not so yesterday.

The first of their two goals in Nowlan Park in this Allianz Hurling League round three game was typical Kilkenny; it came early, the 9th minute, speedy Colin Fennelly parting to Eoin Larkin who picked out the lurking TJ Reid – net-buster from close range.

“They overlap very quickly, come at you in waves,” said Wexford manager Colm Bonnar, himself a former All-Ireland-winning defender with Tipperary, paying due tribute to that famed attack.