‘Bypassed’ the last day, midfield maestro Fennelly plans to get back on centre stage

You try to be polite when a player hasn’t done well in a game, but the good ones don’t need sugar with their medicine.

They can carry out their own diagnosis.

Kilkenny’s Michael Fennelly was frank about the drawn All-Ireland final. In the absence of the injured Michael Rice, he was expected to take the lead in midfield, but that’s not how it worked out.