BRIAN CODY BELIEVES it’s impossible to properly analyse a game while looking in from the sideline.
The Kilkenny boss says nature and pace of the game nowadays means video analysis afterwards is absolutely critical.
“I think you’ll always see things on DVD that you won’t have seen live, because otherwise you’re a bit of a genius and I haven’t met that fella yet. It’s fast, it’s furious, especially the last day.
“It was just crazy stuff in lots of ways, the pace of the game and the relentless nature of it. So anybody who thinks that he was capable of analysing the game standing on the sideline is codding himself.
“You obviously take in everything about the game that you saw and you go back and you study it and you think about it and then you plan and you plot for it. But at the end of the day you make decisions based on what you see and what you know and based on instinct as well.”
He added that himself and his coaching team had watched the drawn final with Tipperary back, but wasn’t giving away any clues as to what changes, if any, they might make for the replay.
“We just do what we do from the point of view of thinking what’s the right thing to do. We’ll look at all the angles of it and make a decision and at the end of the day one or two decisions will always come down to your cut instinct.
“Obviously there are huge positives in the game for ourselves and obviously for Tipperary as well. But neither team won the game but to win the game both teams will look for improvement.
“Who knows who’s going to start, who knows who’s going to come in. The panel is there and we’ll work off the panel.”
