The Coach’s couch: James Horan

Drico ‘an All-Black in other colours’

Bravest coaching call, any sport?

Brian Cody immediately comes to mind. Not for one call in particular, just for the regularity of brave calls he’s made. He’s let the likes of Denis Byrne, Charlie Carter, Brian McEvoy and Cha Fitzpatrick go or walk when the public perception would have been those players still had plenty of inter-county hurling left in them. He doesn’t care who you are or how much you’ve won for him before, only will you help Kilkenny win All-Irelands in the future.