***** The year after Hogan retired, Kilkenny completed another All-Ireland back-to-back. It meant an 11th title as manager for Brian Cody, and his eighth alone from the previous 10. The average age of his starting team in 2015 was just over 26 - younger than the Dublin football team that completed an historic six-in-a-row last Saturday. You could have made a cogent argument, back then, that Kilkenny were set to reign on . . . yet they have failed to land another All-Ireland. What the history of the last five years has underlined is that even a manager as renowned as Cody cannot do it all alone. Hogan was one of six players to retire in the months that followed that 2014 success; they included Tommy Walsh, JJ Delaney and Henry Shefflin.