Kildare GAA General Discussion Thread

Yeah dissapointing to lose but have to be heartened by the fight shown playing with 14 for so long. The game was ours I say 15 on 15 - but you never know. By the sounds it scores left behind again with drop shorts and over complicating things. Mad how much you're still hearing about kildare taking possession into the tackle? An ego issue with some of the bigger lads perhaps thinking they can walk through walls.

A real shame anyway - a win today and I say we may have snuck either one more win or a draw. Incredibly close stuff these early days of the year - either team in most of the matches could have won, table could have been very different.

Looking forward to Mayo next week. Hopefully the snow clears up and it goes ahead.

An absolute disgrace to be in Newbridge today, at a home match, with the crowd made up of at least 90% Mayo supporters. Shocking - we have the worst fan base in the country.

Dreadful. Feel for the players and the lack of support they have even at home.

Poor enough performance again. Glimpses of what we can do but we keep having these massive lapses where we concede and get no where near getting scores.

Lots of kicking practice to do. Wides crippling again, several easy chances again missed.

Daniel Flynn is one of the best forwards in the country. A super star in the making - hopefully the team can improve in general because he can't carry us!

That yellow for Hyland for being clattered by Clifford - replays showed Hyland doing absolutely nothing?? Some of the refereeing towards Kildare is shocking. Niall Kelly yellow also for being pinned down on the ground with digs going in on him by Kerry lads? Black cards were spot on but those yellows were nonsense.

TBH while we have improved since O'Neill came in I just don't think he's the man for the job. Tactically Kildare are found lacking regularly. There is a very good group in the county now and 10 losses in a row should not be happening.

The most pointless round of championship fixtures ever throws in tomorrow. Silly new format.

Minor team for Monday's game against Wexford has also been named:

St Conleths Park Re-Development Project – Kildare 2020 Vision
May 5th, 2018 | Club News, News

The planning application for the Re-Development project in St Conleths Park was lodged on Friday 27th April for approval.

The development will consist of the construction of a new 2–storey Covered Main Stand building, with facilities within the Stand, comprising Players and Officials Changing Areas, Spectator Concourses, Toilets Areas, Office, Multi-purpose room, VIP/ meeting areas, Food services/ bar, Stores, Plant Rooms and associated ancillary areas.

As part of this project, there will be a new civic plaza at the main entrance area to the stand and the Flood Lighting for the facility.

The following graphics, which depict the stand, VIP area, entry plaza and services within the stand reflect Kildare GAA’s plans for St Conleths Park.

Joe Mallon Motors Renault SFC replay:

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The scores being put up in these senior championship games says a lot about the type of football being played in the county. It's no wonder the county team leak scores against decent opposition.

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A hear, we'd be complaining if they were defensive games of 06 - 07. Fk That. Had enough of that for the last decade. Let it rain goals and points!

We struggle up the top end too. Arguably more in the last 20 years.

It was more of an observation than a complaint although I think some supporters should bear it in mind when having a cut off the various managers of our county teams for failing to employ a blanket defence when we take on teams like Dublin.

The way our county team plays reflects our club game. The reason we have found it difficult to develop a solid defensive structure like other counties is because our players simply can't adapt to it. They don't play that way at either club level or at underage level all the way up. O'Neill tried it two years ago against Wexford and Westmeath and it was a disaster. It's ingrained in club football and at underage in counties like Tyrone and Donegal and their players find it much easier to play that way. Pascal Kellaghan tried to change Athy's style a few years ago and he didn't last long.

https://twitter.com/KildareGAA/status/995299070234255362

Does anyone know which ground the match against Carlow will be at?

I think if we can get a good victory against Carlow and the lads get over the long losing run then we can make a good run this year. Full bill of health being reported which is nice to here.

I was disappointed with the league overall, not for being relegated as that was always a risk; moreso the nature of the losses in the tighter games. Look how highly regarded Tyrone and especially Monaghan are on here by many - those were two games you could make strong arguments that we left behind - even in the end they were one point losses. There is no reason if the team pulls together that we won't make the super 8's, we only have to win one match if we go out at the Leinster final yes? Will be some big teams lurking in the qualifiers by then though.

There is lots of improvements in the team from the league; better free conversion, less wides, less daydreaming on the ball and getting easily turned over, tightening up of the defense (especially straight through the middle) and for god sake stop taking the ball into contact so much! I don't hold much merit in the losses to Mayo, Kerry and Galway - the lads knew they were as good as relegated and bar Daniel Flynn and a few others it didn't look like many of them were willing to fight too hard. Look at the results Tyrone and Monaghan got after they beat us - good wins, notably Tyrone against Mayo and Monaghan vs. Dublin. We have the game to push the top teams - just can't play at our best consistently. Last year we put up the highest score against the Dubs and only Mayo got closer to them on the scoreboard (a 9 point defeat isn't saying much but look!)...and then we went out and played like we did against Armagh!


Never in my life have I been as nervous going into a match with the likes of Carlow. Realistically it should be easy but Carlow will throw everyone back and Kildare at the best of times struggle with packed defenses. Mates with someone on the Carlow panel and he said they know they will probably lose to us but there's no pressure on them and they are riled up to get out there.

Roll on Sunday! Weather looks cracking for the weekend so I hope we get a good crowd out to support both teams.

It was a masterclass from Carlow. They rattled Kildare from the first whistle. All over the pitch straight away they were shoving and getting into our faces off the ball and I don't think Kildare expected that aggression. Couple that with a solid 13 man defence, ridiculous accuracy when countering (not a single wide) and expert gamesmanship and after 15/20 minutes I knew the loss was coming. They controlled the second half so well, but I thought some of the play acting got a bit ridiculous - there must have been a solid 10 minutes of lying around on the ground and the officials seemed to be getting sick of it.

All in all Carlow well deserved the win and to punish us like that. They've really developed their system now to not only defend with all men back but to turn over and get a lot of scores too. Defensive football is only puke when the scores don't come - if you're defending with 13 men back and putting up 2-14 past a team that should be strolling past ye, that really is an excellent management setup in place and fair play to them.


As disruptive as it would be this is the game where O'Neill needs to go. Tactically the team are so clueless and borderline moronic. What kind of training are we doing? Why are we still talking about 1-3 being left behind from placed ball? Why are we still kicking so many piss poor wides it's embarrassing? You could put Kildare up against a blanket defence of Junior B's and we still couldn't find ways to break em down. Less running around Hawfield in techno goggles and more putting the ball in between the sticks.

I fully appreciate that we have improved under O'Neill and briefly returned to a top 8ish team (8th of those, but how much was the rise just a reflection on the lack of depth in GAA?) - but the wheels of the system most definitely have fallen off The lads just didn't have the passion today, something is not right behind the scenes.

Great crop of players in the county but I agree with the above - it's a new low. Less so that it was to Carlow as in fairness they are a rising team and I see most teams struggling to put them away - the nature of the defeat was just...bleh.


The lads need a win so please god we get a favourable draw tomorrow...though I'm sure half the country would fancy their chances against us atm.

While I totally agree with your comments I still think talent wise they are a good crop of players and should be performing at a way higher level than they are. The fact that now and then they can turn it on shows the potential is there. There's no superstars on the team or even all stars unlike years previous alright but there's enough good players there that should never see the likes of today happen.

But you're still spot on - the fragile mentality among many other aspects is crippling.