Tipp ace McGrath braced for ‘big bite’ left in Kilkenny

Strange how a team can have one bad championship performance, not in one season, but in a dozen seasons, and everyone focuses in on it.

And it wasn’t even for a full game at that, but the first-half only. Kilkenny were swamped by Galway in the opening 30 minutes of this year’s Leinster final, but, says Tipperary’s Noel McGrath, in advance of Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final, what about all the other games Kilkenny have played this year?

McGrath went on: “I didn’t see any vulnerability in Kilkenny after the defeat by Galway.