We’re not done yet — Cody

the 34-year-old had been sent off by referee Barry Kelly of Westmeath. ‘I couldn’t believe it to be honest. I didn’t understand it but then again maybe I am not able to understand it,’ said Cody. ‘The second [booking] was clear to me; there was a Cork player falling down, his hurl was very low and when a player falls, the hurl obviously ends up around his neck but Henry didn’t put the hurl up there, the person [Coughlan] put his body down into it,’ said Cody, who stopped short of criticising referee Kelly, but took a swipe at Croke Park. ‘As regards yellow cards, it has gone crazy, it has gone mad altogether. But if that is the way they want it, that is the way they like it,’ added Cody. Shefflin’s dismissal — the first of his inter-county career, although he was sent to the line in the 2009 League final against Tipperary when shown a yellow card but was replaced under the experimental rules at the time — could spell the end for the most decorated hurler of all time. Shefflin is a nine-time AllIreland winner and an 11-time All-Star, but it is uncertain whether he will return for duty next season. Cody’s own future — he underwent a cardiac procedure earlier this year — will also come under the spotlight, but the manager insisted in the aftermath of yesterday’s defeat that his team still has a future despite being backboned by ageing legends of the game. ‘There are several more seasons in them, the team obviously evolves and changes from year to year but there are so many players in that dressing room who have huge careers ahead of them,’ said the Kilkenny boss. ‘I won’t say anything about myself, that is for sure,’ added Cody, who admitted that his three-in-a-row-chasing champions had been beaten by the better team, hinting that the likes of Cork and other emerging sides have the potential to become dominant hurling sides. ‘Things did not particularly go our way in certain facets of the game but then again we have been successful for a long time now and we are facing now what a long number of counties have faced from us over the years, I suppose,’ added Cody.