Shane Saint interviewed him before the Kilkenny Club final in 2019 and the intense way he spoke about James Stephens was very good.
My uncle lives near him and says he’s just a very simple man. Goes to mass at half 9 in town every Sunday, calls into the grave yard in Foulkestone after.
Would rearly be seen outside a GAA or Church setting.
Thinly veiled stick that up yer jacksie @dodgy_keeper
Well done Henry, that’s why he’s the King.
Touch of class. The greatest player and the greatest manager. Ever.
Cody’s missus is a Buffers Alley woman. Think she was on a Wexford All Ireland winning Camogie team in the mid 1970’s. Cody would have spent practically all of his playing days having to take care of another Buffers Alley native.
You’re right. His great KK teams used have weekends away in Seafield and train in Buffers Alley pitch. They weren’t for the faint hearted
Truly the end of an era, the last of the “old-fashioned” managers who believed in laps, stamina, desire and all the other attributes attached to them. Cody’s teams were representative of himself, all effort and honesty. This will carry you a long way but not to the summit. Over the almost quarter decade a fine scatter of truly exceptional warriors emerged and exalted good teams to great teams and he drove that in his own inimitable fashion.
He is of course a legend and a great man. I hope he takes it easy for a while and finds enjoyment away from the sideline
Like a lad wishing his mother happy Mother’s Day on Instagram and her not having an Instagram account.
Cody is box office
Brian Cody: Legendary Kilkenny hurling boss steps down after 24 years in charge
At their peak they won 8 All-Ireland’s in 10 years. FFS. And for most of those years there was nobody near them, it was over before a ball was thrown in. Incredible dominance which we will not see the like of again.
“ Certain comment, especially within Cody’s native place, mainly attributed his progress to the extraordinary flush of playing talent that unfolded over the 2000s. I never agreed with that deflationary note. The only experience harder to manage than failure is success ― and Kilkenny quickly stepped into a position of vertiginous success, when the initial five seasons yielded three triumphs.
Within this context, some panellists become easier to handle but some of them end up much harder propositions. All the while, Cody accrued immense authority through his eschewal of media fripperies and material reward. He forever remained a quintessential GAA volunteer. Sovereign reality? That he has given 50 years and more to hurling. “
All the clips this week from a year til Sunday show Ireland almost from a bygone era and yet Cody was managing Kilkenny that year. How much the game has changed in that time, yet he kept Kilkenny at the top throughout. They never had a fallow period where they were irrelevant like every other county had he had them competing and changed the county mentality from wristy hurlers who were there to be got at in the 90s to a team that’s never beaten til the whistle. A quiet serious simple man devoted to hurling and the church. Is he the last public sporting vestige of old Ireland.
They’ll be 8 years without an All-Ireland next year. The new man could be a messiah if he ends the famine in his first season.
You sure?
Best hurling manage ever
No better past or present
Someone had to bite
The only comparison in gaa is Mickey Harte. Tyrone didn’t do too badly after his departure.
They shithoused their way to the worst all Ireland since Corks
Thirsty
Shefflin really is a class act.
