Brian Cody: ‘I don’t get hung up on systems’

The delivery of Brian Cody’s public utterances has always told more about the man than the words he has used.

When he told a group of students in UCD last year that you shouldn’t be prepare to die but to kill, he did so with that wry smile of his.

Ditto this summer when he offered withering analysis of Ger Loughnane and TJ Reid’s suggestion that Kilkenny may have to join the party and opt for a sweeper.