Brian Cody wasn't panicking at half time yesterday - he knew there were 35 minutes left.

Cody's Cats may have trailed Galway by five points in their NHL semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds but the Black & Amber have dug their way out of much deeper holes in the not-so-distant past:

"Half time is half time," the Kilkenny manager is quoted in The Irish Independent. "You realise that there's a lot of time left in the game.

"Worried is not the word I'd be using. You'd be just seeing how things go, see how things went in the first half and see what you're trying to do, trying to drive things on for the second half.

"We got into it early and picked up the pace of it a bit better. At the end of the day we worked a bit harder in the second half. We got a good start - a nice few points in a row and we got a goal.

"There was nothing in it at all times. The free at the end could have been a goal. It was a very tight game.

"It's the semi-final of the league and obviously the winners are going to play in two weeks' time, which is a great game to be getting. We're happy enough to be playing that game." Tweet

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