Conor Phelan: Ballyhale Shamrocks are the 'best club team in the country'

Mount Leinster Rangers’s Jon Nolan and Denis Murphy with Brian Butler and Darragh Corcoran of Ballyhale Shamrocks. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

The best club hurling team in the country? Even after a slightly schizophrenic performance of, initially, majesty and then, at times, misery, it's hard to disagree with Conor Phelan's overall assessment of Ballyhale Shamrocks.

Phelan is well placed to assess because while he's the manager of Mount Leinster Rangers, the Clara man is also a current Kilkenny selector alongside Brian Cody.