Eoin Cadogan: Cody will relish prospect of unhinging Limerick's system

I want to try describing the feeling and lack of control when you walk into the tunnels of Croke Park fourteen points down and chasing.

TOP MEN: Kilkenny manager Brian Cody celebrates Saturday's win over Clare with Mikey Butler and Cian Kenny. 

“Leave one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe”.

SHOULD we be surprised by Kilkenny's suffocating dominance last Saturday in Croke Park? Probably not. From start to finish, it was savage from the black and amber men. Hunting in packs, narrowing the space and never letting Clare whip up any  momentum. The Banner ritually walked themselves into the traps and were like lambs to the slaughter.