The fixture attracting attention this weekend is in Galway. It’s not so much to do with its importance to either team – Cork v Clare has more long-term significance – but rather the meeting of the two men most associated with the greatest era in Kilkenny’s history.
It’s not easy for Henry Shefflin to turn up against Brian Cody and Kilkenny and plot the downfall of his county and club-mates but that’s not how he’s framing it to himself. He has to prepare a team for a big match.
I have reservations about this focus, anyway. In my experience managers hardly ever get worked up about who’s down the line from them. There’s too much to be done to get your own team right and performing and after that, concern about how the opposition are playing to be getting anxio …
- April 30, 2022
