Kildare GAA General Discussion Thread

Brownie1 · 05-04-2014 10:05pm

Murnaghan not given a chance. He's a half back but has been put in all positions except the one he's best in. Left on bench tomorrow against Westmeath. He is full of running at end of game, doesn't give away stupid balls. He deserves his place.

klairondavis · 05-04-2014 10:29pm

We will probably get away with Foley at 3, Chalky at 6 and a midfield of Lynch and Moolick against Westmeath in Newbridge but it's almost inevitable that the defence will get burned for speed down the middle in the summer if that's how we set up.

klairondavis · 06-04-2014 5:00pm

Kildare 1-22 Westmeath 0-9

Mulhall (0-7, 4fs), N Kelly (0-5), McNally (1-2), Hurley (0-3), O’Neill (0-2), Conway (0-1), Dowling (0-1), Callaghan (0-1).

Better from Kildare but the performance has to be put into context. Westmeath were abysmal. The two Athy forwards looked very lively and will pose problems for defences on a fast sod in the summer. It's the big concern I would have over our own defence and midfield where we have a severe lack of pace in the central positions. Peter Kelly did do quite well before his black card and hopefully Ollie Lyons will be ready for June.

On today's evidence it will be Louth we will be facing rather than Westmeath. They are a team who have never made life easy for Kildare down the years.

Red Crow · 06-04-2014 5:22pm

What an abysmal turnout although it was to be expected considering the two teams were relegated already

klairondavis · 06-04-2014 5:24pm

SHC draw:

Celbridge get a bye into winners group.

1st round:
Confey v Ardclough
Maynooth v Naas
Clane v Leixlip
Coill Dubh v Eire Óg Corra Choill

klairondavis · 06-04-2014 5:26pm

JFC Draw:

Group 1: Castlemitchell, Ballykelly, Cappagh, Grangenolvan and Rathcoffey.

Group 2: Straffan, Milltown, Rheban and Kilcullen.

klairondavis · 06-04-2014 5:28pm

IFC draw:

Nurney v Robertstown
Sallins v Eadestown
Ellistown v Suncroft
Castledermot v Raheens
Kill v Round Towers
Kilcock v Ballyteague
Two Mile House v Clogherinkoe
Caragh v Rathangan

klairondavis · 06-04-2014 5:29pm

SFC draw:

Clane v Moorefield
Johnstownbridge v Confey
St Laurences v Ballymore
Leixlip v Sarsfields
St Kevins v Carbury
Naas v Celbridge
Maynooth v Athy
Monasterevin v Allenwood

klairondavis · 06-04-2014 6:18pm

Johnny Doyle has hung up the boots. Every Kildare supporter owes him a debt of gratitude for his 15 years of distinguished service.

BNMC · 06-04-2014 6:23pm

My all time sporting hero. What a player and a gentleman.

Thank you Johnny.

StupidLikeAFox · 06-04-2014 7:41pm

He has played in every single championship match Kildare have played in since he made his debut - 65 consecutive matches. He has probably scored in 90% of them too. Will be sad to see him go, hopefully they have a testimonial game for him.

Lemlin · 06-04-2014 9:10pm

klairondavis wrote: »

Johnny Doyle has hung up the boots. Every Kildare supporter owes him a debt of gratitude for his 15 years of distinguished service.

Any idea why he's not hanging round for this year? Seems a strange time to announce it after the new season has started and the league is over.

klairondavis · 06-04-2014 9:21pm

Lemlin wrote: »

Any idea why he's not hanging round for this year? Seems a strange time to announce it after the new season has started.

He was reluctant to come back at all this year. His wife gave birth to twins around Christmas time and they have another young daughter together too.

I had heard he hasn't been able to make all the training recently and typical of Johnny, he wouldn't be a man for half measures. He probably just held out until today to say goodbye to the faithful in Newbridge.

His retirement following on from Dermot Earley's last year leaves a serious void in the Kildare ranks. Young teams need leaders and we don't have them at the moment.

klairondavis · 11-04-2014 2:00pm

Minor hurlers take on Westmeath in the first round of the Leinster Championship tomorrow at 3pm. High expectations about this team so hopefully they can provide Kildare hurling with a timely boost after a rough few months for the seniors.

klairondavis · 12-04-2014 4:21pm

Leinster MHC:

Kildare 3-11 Westmeath 1-13

Great result for the lads. I wasn't at it but by the sounds of things they were well worth the win.

klairondavis · 18-04-2014 11:15am

Kildare team (v Westmeath, Leinster MFC 19/4/14):

1. Tadhg Foley -Athy
2. Sean Healy - Moorefield
3. Mark Hyland - Athy
4. Cian McConnell - Sarsfields
5. Jamie Flynn - Round Towers
6. Paul Mescal - Maynooth
7. Conor Earley - Raheens
8. Rory Feely - Athy
9. Matthew Bursey - Raheens
10. Evan Flynn - Round Towers
11. Conor Hartley - Sarsfields
12. Stefan Lawlor - Rathangan
13. Ben McCormack - Sarsfields
14. Aaron McConville - Round Towers
15. Ethan O Donoghue - Clane

klairondavis · 20-04-2014 10:53am

Won by 4 points. Not sure if this team is as good as last year's but with a bit of luck they could have a good run.

klairondavis · 26-04-2014 5:20pm

Minor hurlers beaten by 4 points by Carlow. They were ahead by 3 at half time but Carlow the better team in the second half. Talented bunch of players will be disappointed but they should be able to give the B Championship a good go this year.

Stoner · 02-05-2014 1:11am

klairondavis wrote: »

Minor hurlers beaten by 4 points by Carlow. They were ahead by 3 at half time but Carlow the better team in the second half. Talented bunch of players will be disappointed but they should be able to give the B Championship a good go this year.[/quote

Fair play to you Klairondavis thanks for all the updates.

Frankie Lee · 09-05-2014 11:11pm

Was at the two games at Hawkfield tonight in the IFC. Robertstown and Nurney played out an decent enough draw. Nurney played the tidier football but Robertstown were a bit more direct and got a couple of soft enough goals. Replay Wednesday night,

The weather deteriorated rapidly for the second game and aided a little bit of an upset in the second game with Suncroft hammering Ellistown 3-8 to 5 points. It came at a big cost as Fionn Dowling looked like he did his cruciate late on however while John Brown also went off injured too. Their corner back also got a straight red card in the closing stages. Ellistown were atrocious and didn't score in the second half. Despite their impressive league form it looks like old age has caught up on them as a youthful Suncroft side were quicker all over the field.

Kevin Feely was apparently named on the bench for Athy this evening, he is out of contract with Charlton Athletic at the end of next month and has yet to play a game for them. Although it is rather selfish as a Kildare fan to hope he returns full time here.

klairondavis · 10-05-2014 10:05am

That's a pity about Fionn Dowling. He has had a horrible run of bad luck with injuries.

Kevin Feely would be a very interesting addition to the Kildare panel even if it was only for a few months. Ger McNally quoted Pascal Kellaghan on twitter last night saying that if he was the Kildare manager then he would be in touch. Kildare's first match is still four weeks away so there would be plenty of time to get him in and get some football under his belt in the meantime.

klairondavis · 10-05-2014 4:05pm

Good win in the Christy Ring down in Arklow this afternoon. Very tough task against Kerry next weekend.

klairondavis · 11-05-2014 10:28pm

Junior Football Championship Group 1
Cappagh 2-10 V Grangenolvan 1-7
Castlemitchell 1-9 V Ballykelly 1-9

Junior Football Championship Group 2
Straffan 1-15 V Miltown 0-9
Rheban 0-6 V Kilcullen 2-14

Intermediate Football Championship Round 1
Ellistown 0-5 V Suncroft 3-7
Nurney 0-13 V Robertstown 2-7
Castledermot 1-10 V Raheens 1-11
Kill 2-8 V Round Towers 1-16
Sallins 0-9 V Eadestown 2-8
Two Mile House 2-8 V Clogherinkoe 3-4
Caragh 1-10 V Rathangan 3-6

Senior Football Championship RD 1
Maynooth 0-7 V Athy 0-16
Monasterevan 1-6 V Allenwood 0-15
Naas 0-13 V Celbridge 0-16
Leixlip 1-11 V Sarsfields 1-17
Johnstownbridge 1-12 V Confey 1-11
St Kevin's 0-9 V Carbury 1-20
Clane 1-16 V Moorefield 1-16
St Laurence's 0-15 V Ballymore Eustace 2-7

klairondavis · 14-05-2014 10:03pm

IFC
Kilcock 1-12 Ballyteague 0-8

SFC Replay
Moorefield 5-16 Clane 1-7 :eek:

klairondavis · 14-05-2014 10:09pm

IFC Replay
Nurney 2-13 Robertstown 1-13

klairondavis · 16-05-2014 11:06am

Kildare team (v Longford, Leinster MFC 17/5/14):

1. Tadhg Foley - Athy
2. Sean Healy - Moorefield
3. Mark Hyland - Athy
4. Cian McConnell - Sarsfields
5. Jamie Flynn - Round Towers
6. Paul Mescal - Maynooth
7. Conor Earley - Raheens
8. Rory Feely - Athy
9. Eoghan Boyle - Rathangan
10. Evan Flynn - Round Towers
11. Conor Hartley - Sarsfields
12. Stefan Lawlor - Rathangan
13. Ethan O Donoghue - Clane
14. Sean Dempsey - Sarsfields
15. Ben McCormack - Sarsfields

Big improvement needed from the Westmeath game against a Longford team who pushed Dublin all the way. It's a shame this clashes with the Christy Ring game against Kerry in Newbridge and the Kildare GAA raceday in Punchestown.

klairondavis · 17-05-2014 8:11pm

Great battling display by the minor footballers against a strong Longford team. Started and finished poorly in normal time but looked a right good side when they got a run on Longford. Better impact off the bench won it for us in the end.

Heard the hurling result. No surprise really. Kerry are very strong this year and Kildare are a bit disorganised at the moment.

klairondavis · 17-05-2014 8:20pm

Also hope that the two players that were involved in the totally accidental but nasty looking clash early on in the match make a speedy recovery.

roy rodgers · 17-05-2014 8:46pm

And I also see that we will meet louth in our championship opener in croke park ..
now that one hell ot a bogey team for kildare.

kencoo · 18-05-2014 12:07pm

roy rodgers wrote: »

And I also see that we will meet louth in our championship opener in croke park ..
now that one hell ot a bogey team for kildare.

Terrible memories of facing louth... one day 1990s on a bus we went to drogheda thinking it was the first step to A1 final having just been beaten in the league final. The craic wasnt mighty on the way home.

Frankie Lee · 18-05-2014 12:48pm

At least we managed to scrape out a lucky win against them last year. Aidan O'Rourke will have them well organised again and if Kildare are anyway below their best Louth will win.

klairondavis · 18-05-2014 12:58pm

kencoo wrote: »

Terrible memories of facing louth... one day 1990s on a bus we went to drogheda thinking it was the first step to A1 final having just been beaten in the league final. The craic wasnt mighty on the way home.

1991, Micko's first championship match in charge. Sweltering hot day and a packed house in Drogheda, no health and safety back then! Stefan White scored two ridiculous goals and Kildare just had no time to recover. They beat us well in Newbridge in 1995 during Dermot Earley's stint as manager. Colin Kelly was in inspired form that night.

We scraped past them in Croke Park in 2000 after Padraig Graven scored a dodgy enough penalty after it looked like he had been fouled outside the square. Also beat them by a point in 2002 in Navan. Enda Murphy pulled off some unbelievable saves and Brian Lacey needed stitches after being hit over the head by a mad Louth woman wielding an umbrella! They ended John Crofton's reign in the 2007 qualifiers with a convincing win in Newbridge. They also consigned us to the backdoor in 2010 after a great game in Navan. Last year in Newbridge was nip and tuck all the way until we pulled away in the last ten minutes.

Considering our championship record against them, I would snap your hand off if you offered me a one point win!

redarmy · 20-05-2014 6:37pm

So june the 8th, 2pm , double header with the dubs, happy days

hope we can put in a solid display

klairondavis · 24-05-2014 2:37pm

Christy Ring:

Derry 0-10 Kildare 2-15

Good result for the lads bouncing back from last weekend.

Royce McCutcheon · 27-05-2014 1:57pm

Less than 2 weeks to championship and expectations in Kildare are as low as I have ever seen it, while it seems that even if we get to the Leinster Final a drubbing is inevitable, I think there is much more room for optimism as we would have got there after 2 stringent tests while the Dubs would be aiming to peak for the quarter finals, sayng that theres only 1 game that matters and that is against Louth. Here is the team I would like to see line out:

Connolly
Fitzpatrick
P. Kelly
Lyons
Cribben
F. Conway
McGrillen
Moolick
O Neill( Spoil as much ball as possible against their midfield)
Callaghan
Kelly
O Flaherty
Brophy
O Connor
Mulhall

Plenty of options on the bench-Hurley, Smith, McNally, Bolton, Hyland, Foley etc. so with a first half where we dont ship a lot of scores I think we could potentially win this by 4-5 points

Stoner · 28-05-2014 6:36pm

it's amazing alright in the space of two or three years the backside can fall out of a team, at the same time a couple of wins would pick everything back up again.

klairondavis · 28-05-2014 9:08pm

Junior footballers beaten by a point up in Dundalk tonight.

klairondavis · 31-05-2014 12:49pm

Joe Mallon Renault Motors SFC
Winners Group:
Johnstownbridge v Allenwood
Athy v Moorefield;
Carbury v Sarsfields;
Celbridge v St. Laurence’s.

Joe Mallon Renault Motors SFC
Losers Group:
Maynooth v Ballymore;
St. Kevins v Clane;
Naas v Leixlip;
Monasterevan v Confey.

Joe Fox Tool & Plant Hire IFC
Winners Group:
Suncroft v Two Mile House;
Kilcock v Nurney;
Round Towers v Raheens;
Eadestown v Rathangan;

Joe Fox Tool & Plant Hire IFC
Losers Group:
Caragh v Clogherinkoe;
Sallins v Ballyteague;
Robertstown v Ellistown;
Kill v Castledermot.

klairondavis · 31-05-2014 3:11pm

Meath 0-7 Kildare 1-9 HT

Tony Murphy got the goal in the first minute. Kildare are hurling well but still a lot of work to do in the second half.

klairondavis · 31-05-2014 4:08pm

Meath 0-13 Kildare 1-18 FT

Great stuff from the lads. They have really started to turn things around after a fairly miserable league. We rode our luck a bit in the second half with Dermody saving a dodgy Meath penalty. Finished very strongly and in good shape for a crack at Kerry now in Croke Park as underdogs. Delighted for everyone involved in Kildare hurling today.

klairondavis · 03-06-2014 9:47pm

Well done to all behind the open night for the hurlers in Hawkfield tonight ahead of the final on Saturday.

Nib · 03-06-2014 10:15pm

Darroch Mulhall is apparently injured and will not feature on Sunday. Huge loss if true. O'Grady is also a loss. Possibly our two best players in the league.

klairondavis · 03-06-2014 10:19pm

Nib wrote: »

Darroch Mulhall is apparently injured and will not feature on Sunday. Huge loss if true. O'Grady is also a loss. Possibly our two best players in the league.

Mulhall had his appendix out. He will be unavailable for a while.

klairondavis · 05-06-2014 12:33am

Nice piece on Kildare hurling and the challenges it faces by Cormac O'Malley:

http://theviewfromthesideline.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/all-lilywhite-on-the-night/

klairondavis · 06-06-2014 10:53am

Kildare senior football v Louth:

1. Mark Donnellan - Maynooth

2. Hugh McGrillen - Celbridge

3. Mick Foley - Athy

4. Emmet Bolton - Eadestown

5. Ollie Lyons - Celbridge

6. Fergal Conway - Celbridge

7. Keith Cribbin - Johnstownbridge

8. Tommy Moolick - Leixlip

9. Seán Hurley - Johnstownbridge

10. Cathal McNally - Johnstownbridge

11. Niall Kelly - Athy

12. Pádraig O’Neill - St Laurence's

13. Éamonn Callaghan - Naas

14. Tomás O’Connor - Clane

15. Paddy Brophy - Celbridge

Kildare senior hurling v Kerry:

1. Paul Dermody - Éire Óg/Corra Choill

2. John Doran - Leixlip

3. Fiachra Ó Muineachain - Celbridge

4. Niall Ó Muineachain (capt) - Celbridge

5. David Harney - Clane

6. Mark Moloney - Celbridge

7. Richie Hoban - Ardclough

8. Éanna Ó Neill - Coill Dubh

9. Martin Fitzgerald - Ardclough

10. Ross Kelly - Naas

11. Paul Divilly - Confey

12. Bernard Deay - Clane

13. Gerry Keegan - Celbridge

14. Tony Murphy - Celbridge

15. Ray McLoughney - Kilruane/McDonnagh's

It's a huge weekend for Kildare GAA. Best of luck to both teams.

roy rodgers · 06-06-2014 10:59am

Not a sarsfields or a moorefield man in site???

Did they not contest the county final last year?

I see a short summer on the horizon.

klairondavis · 06-06-2014 11:02am

roy rodgers wrote: »

Not a sarsfields or a moorefield man in site???

Did they not contest the county final last year?

I see a short summer on the horizon.

I would be very surprised if there are not a few changes to that team. We cannot line out that way surely?

Lemlin · 06-06-2014 5:10pm

There'll have to be changes to the setup and starting line-up. I can't see Emmet Bolton at corner back.

klairondavis · 06-06-2014 5:53pm

Lemlin wrote: »

There'll have to be changes to the setup and starting line-up. I can't see Emmet Bolton at corner back.

It would be a major surprise if he doesn't swap with Ollie Lyons who will mark Derek Maguire.

I would expect at least two personnel changes after talking to a few heads today who are a lot closer to the panel than I am.

klairondavis · 07-06-2014 4:46pm

Kildare hurling out of their skins but a point down at the break. Need to keep up the pace and get more ball into Gerry Keegan and Tony Murphy. Kerry are hitting a lot of wides.

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