Time to add actions to words as opportunity knocks for Donal Óg Cusack

DEATH zone. Stepford Wives. Bears and bidets. Dónal Óg Cusack has been resourceful in articulating his views of Kilkenny. He’ll be hoping to show just as much ingenuity in assisting Davy Fitzgerald in drowning the Cats on Sunday, now that he shares the same sideline with him.

The least expected of Cusack will be to walk some of his talk. As a The Sunday Game analyst and Irish Examiner columnist, there’s been plenty of that from the Clare selector/coach about Brian Cody’s All-Ireland champions in recent years.

The Stepford Wives line aside, though, Cusack’s comments have all been substantiated. Naturally, his sound-bite that “Kilkenny don’t do tactics, the Pope isn’t Catholic and bears use bidets” was most picked up on from his analysis following last September’s All-Ireland final.