Tame Cats get wake-up call

Offaly 4-09 Kilkenny 0-26

What they experienced in Tullamore was a cluster of tremors more than anything high on the Richter Scale but being hit by four goals was something they were not all that accustomed to.

Likewise, having never lost to Offaly under Brian Cody’s reign, to be hit by two early goals and trail by a point at half-time, 2-6 to 0-11, would have been a little surprising for them.