Brian Cody has dismissed the notion that his Kilkenny side are a defensive outfit.
The Cats' success has seen them become the envy of most teams across the country over the past decade or so and Cody cites eight-time All-Ireland winner Eoin Larkin as the poster boy of their relentless style.
"People speak about us maybe being very, very defensive. Absolutely not defensive in that sense. We'd be an attacking team as I would see it. Eoin has an insatiable work ethic," Cody told the Irish Independent.
"He's an impatient player. He's not a fella that you can say, 'Right, play corner-forward'. He'd play it no problem, he'd play anywhere, he just wants the ball and that's not defensive, that's just a sense of where am I needed.
"That's Eoin's sense of how to play the game and lots of other lads as well. The reality of it is there is a lot of flexibility now in positions, that's for certain, but it's a different thing to an orthodox, say, sweeper set-up.
"Certainly it's not a situation where you have 15 players who just keep to their own positions, that's not happening for certain, but you'd always like to think we have a really attacking sense."
The Cats open their National League campaign this Sunday when they travel to Waterford for the Division 1A clash at Walsh Park (throw-in 2pm).
Keep up to date will all the action this weekend on our Match Trackers. On Saturday and Sunday you can follow the All-Ireland club SFC semi-finals and the Allianz HL.
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