Anthony Daly: The anti-Cody chat sounds fairly hollow now. He's the greatest of them all.

You often hear it that a game is as good as four training sessions but Kilkenny nearly prefer the training sessions, because their manager can get them all together and strengthen their bond even more

Kilkenny manager Brian Cody celebrates with Tommy Walsh after the game.

On the evening Kilkenny were beaten by Cork in the Allianz league semi-final in late March, their All-Ireland winning odds were stretched out to 12/1. Kilkenny would have probably seen that as an insult but could anyone have really argued with the price? Still, there was only one way to shave down those figures and no better crowd to ram it down everyone else’s throats than the stripey men. 

What are those odds now?