Fennelly: Shefflin will be a county boss

Michael Fennelly believes his old comrade-in-arms and current club boss Henry Shefflin has the drive and ambition to make the step up to county management one day.

The pair enjoyed remarkable success together through a decade with Kilkenny, and for the bones of 15 years with Ballyhale Shamrocks, and it is with their home club that Sheffin has made his first foray as bainisteoir.

Fennelly admits to a certain element of surprise at the speed of the move given Shefflin had only finished playing for the club the year before but he also believes the 11-time All Star has already made some shrewd early moves.