TJ Reid: ‘I’m not Henry Shefflin, I’m very different to Henry’

A new era will dawn this Saturday in Páirc Sheamuis Stiopháin when Ballyhale Shamrocks play their first game — a Senior Hurling League fixture away to Erin’s Own — under the management of Henry Shefflin.

One of those players in his care this season, when not shooting out the lights with Kilkenny, will be TJ Reid who, according to Eoin Larkin earlier this week, is operating at a level above anything his club’s latest bainisteoir managed in his prime.

High praise, indeed.