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Brian Cody: Calling Dublin 'manufactured hurlers' is condescending

You can’t accuse the Kilkenny boss of hurling snobbery.

KILKENNY HURLING BOSS Brian Cody has rejected claims that Dublin’s hurlers are ‘manufactured’ in the wake of the Blues’ recent championship exit.

Anthony Daly saw his side well beaten by Tipperary in Thurles last weekend with many suggesting the Premier’s ‘natural’ hurlers had too much for the Dubs.

But Cody insists Dublin are far from manufactured hurlers.

“I certainly would consider it that, because the same people were saying six months before that they were capable of winning the all-Ireland final, so it was a huge change in how people looked upon them. I would say it’s certainly condescending, call it what you like. I would consider Dublin to be a top team, an absolute top team. I’ve been saying this for a long time, probably before anyone else was saying it,” he said.

“I don’t know, they performed badly on the day as many teams have done before, and the same level of remark wasn’t passed upon others team who have also failed to perform in given situations. To me they have outstanding players and have proven over the past couple of years exactly the quality they have. There is nobody questioning their natal ability over the past couple of years whereas it’s easy enough to hit them with that now, but it’s completely wrong as far as I’m concerned.

“Dublin will be very disappointed with how they played, they didn’t perform as they’d like against us and they certainly didn’t he last day. It’s not for me to comment on Dublin except to say that I would have seen Dublin with one of the teams with the potential to win the All-Ireland as they were so very close last year. What I’d be saying is that they’re much better than they looked on both days.”

Kilkenny brushed past Dublin in the provincial decider and now face Limerick in the first All-Ireland semi-final on Sunday week at Croke Park. Michael Fennelly is the only worry ahead of the game.

“They’re training, they’re pretty good so they’re back for the last couple of weeks so hopefully they’ll be available for secretion. They’re doing full training,” said Cody.

“It’s an ongoing thing [with Fennelly] and it has been for a while. It’s good now at the moment and he obviously played against Offaly and it came against him again. He’s been out and has been out for five or six weeks.”

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