Can Brian Cody prevent this slump becoming a Kilkenny drought?

The word from Kilkenny is that all leave has been cancelled. 

As Brian Cody plots a plan for the Cats to recover from their earliest championship exit in his tenure, he has made the most of their being able to return to collective training on December 1 and players have been asked to reconsider individual trips away.

The sight of Cody turning up to every SHC game following Kilkenny’s qualifier defeat to Waterford as well as the odd football match was an unusual one but as early as then he was charting a course for 2018.