I was taken aback by Anthony Cunningham's final pledge, says Andy Smith

Yes, even Andy Smith was taken aback when he heard that Anthony Cunningham had publicly revealed he told Brian Cody after the Leinster final he would greet him next on the Croke Park sideline in September.

“I said to Brian Cody afterwards that we’ll see them in the All-Ireland final,” the Galway manager informed RTÉ following Kilkenny’s seven-point win.

Smith remarked: “Yeah, they were strange comments. We can’t look past Cork in a quarter-final. That’s the only game in town now. We have to mentally and physically get up for that game.”