RH and Cody never hit it off, from the start. RH is too independent minded for him.
JH and Cody is a much funnier one, because JH just trains away, diligently and honestly. No one can understand why JH could not make the backs in 2019 and 2020 – in 2021, even. But Cody has a notably ignorant side.
Cody was very generous to Richie Hogan when he gave him his place back for the AI Final following suspension in 2012.
I thought Cody was going soft in his old age at the time.
You have an eejit here perpetuating the biggest myth in hurling: that Brian Cody is getting the best out of a really limited bunch. Here is a team that could have been played this year and last year:
Eoin Murphy
Darren Mullen
Huw Lawlor
Tommy Walsh
James Maher
Conor Delaney
Conor Browne/Joey Holden
Paddy Deegan
Pádraig Walsh
Adrian Mullen
TJ Reid
Billy Ryan
Colin Fennelly
John Donnelly
Eoin Cody
That team would hardly beat Limerick but would put it up to anyone. And you would have some decent subs as well. However that XV might be described, it is certainly not notably limited – especially if well prepared in a good atmosphere. The forward sextet is potent.
I will maybe list Cody’s most egregious mistakes over the last six seasons in a post tomorrow.
I do not know why you think anyone is interested in this kind of whimsical drivel – least of all me.
Probably still seeing Callanan in his sleep, swanning about and languidly floating over points as Joey looked on in the manner of a goat during a thunderstorm - I can hear it but where the fuck is it……
They already do put it up to anyone
You are obviously the sort of hurling ‘expert’ who develops amnesia over 16 point leads collapsing.
They didn’t put it up to a team they were beating by 16 points?
Jaysus… You really are dense, on any subject. They could make furniture out of you.
I remember John tennyson saying the same years ago , Cody liked instability and lads not knowing where they stood …it was same for all he reckoned …
And you won’t be dealing with the point made no? When you say “put it up to anyone” did you really mean “win the All Ireland every year”?
When were they up by 16 points and lost?
They hardly led Waterford by that much in 2020?
Cody is an absolute miracle worker having Kilkenny right in contention coming down the stretch in All Ireland Semi Finals.
I’d say he’s referring to the Leinster semi-final of 2020 against Dublin where they nearly threw away the lead.
Strange to be using a routine Leinster Championship Semi Final win as a stick to beat Cody with .
Cody should have departed after the 2016 All Ireland Final. Kilkenny have had some awful defeats/maulings/collapses over the last 5 years starting with that 2016 Final.
This line that there’s nobody within the county or anywhere that could get more out of the talent that’s in Kilkenny than Cody amuses me.
This year Kk lost to that Cork team
In 2020 they blew a semi final to an average Waterford
In 2019 they ambushed Lk but were poor in final sending off notwithstanding
Iggy Clarke has a 0-3 record for the 3 All Ireland finals he played in.
Galway lost three finals in the 1950’s in 1953, 1955 and 1958. Good few there with a 0-3 record.
Wexford lost 3 finals in the 1970’s in 1970, 1976 and 1977. Martin Quigley and @Fagan_ODowd’s pal Mick Butler would be two who were too young in 1968 who had a 0-3 record. Probably a few others too.
PJ Molloy and Noel Lane both played in 5 losing All Ireland finals.
Look, I have less than zero interest in your opinion, on any front. Stop addressing me. Here lieth the zenith of my politeness.
Things move on. So should managers.