If the appointment of Derek Lyng was a statement of Kilkenny’s desire to retain many of the values from the age of Cody, then the creation of another managerial position was the county also recognising that it had been a little too stuck in the past.
The role of county performance manager, or county performance lead, subsequently filled in recent months by Michael Fennelly, was just one action point to come from a review commissioned by the county board in 2021 and chaired by Cody’s long-time lieutenant Michael Dempsey.
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