Cats are back for a dogfight

What have Kilkenny and Brian Cody been doing behind closed doors in Nowlan Park since the Leinster final loss to Galway?

You think they just wanted to lick their wounds in private? No, my friends, the Kilkenny think-tank has been in full flow, planning, devising and practising with the result to be unveiled in Croke Park against Tipperary tomorrow in the All-Ireland semi-final.

Listen, if there’s anyone out there still naïve enough to believe Kilkenny don’t do tactics, that they are the last great upholders of hurling’s supposedly revered gospel, ‘Thou shalt not even attempt to compose a game-plan!’, well, there’s a book ye must read.