Colin Fennelly feels Henry Shefflin may "find it hard to leave" the Kilkenny senior hurling squad if Ballyhale keep winning.

The Cats legend has deferred making a decision on his intercounty future until after Ballyhale Shamrocks' season comes to an end. Should the Kilkenny champions win Sunday's Leinster club final, then his season will spill over into the 2015 calendar year and his club and county team-mate Fennelly believes this will increase the likelihood of the ten-times All-Ireland winners staying on with the Black & Amber for one more season:

"Henry just wants more, just wants to keep on winning," says Fennelly in The Irish Times. "He doesn't look at it like he has 10 All-Irelands, or 11 All Stars, or however many other titles he has now. So I think he will stay on, as long as we keep pushing hard with Ballyhale. I think he's going to find it hard to leave it.

"Of course you can't look past Kilcormac. But for Henry, if he gets to March, if we went the whole way, that's nearly the whole league gone ... there's only another three or four months in the championship. So if he's playing at the top of his form, there's no reason for him to go.

"It could be a massive thing for him to think about. Why not finish off the year with a bang? But look, no one knows except for Henry, that is the truth. He's not saying a word about it at all.

"But he's still playing unbelievable stuff. Like the goal he got, the first couple of minutes, against Kilmacud Crokes. The movement he has. The hooking and blocking, that I've seen him do all my life. That's actually the reason I'm doing it now. Because I'm seeing him do it for so long."

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