Kilkenny GAA Thread Part 2 **MOD NOTE POST 1***

mountgomery burns wrote: »

If Michael Fennelly plays much part this year I'll be surprised

He wont play in the league, I doubt he would play even if he could but I think there is a decent chance he will play in the championship, he certainly seems fully committed to playing this year. Unlike others his rehab process is of interest to his career, if it wasnt I think he would be retired allready.

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KevIRL wrote: »

Unlucky mooncoin. Left themselves too much to do after the first half. Fantastic second half effort though.

Hard luck to mooncoin,awful to lose by a point but a fantastic journey and hopefully they can build on their success.

Congratulations to Carrickshock, great performance. Delighted for Richie Power, Michael Rice, Jon Tennyson and the rest of the team

brookville wrote: »

I expected cody to get a chance corner back while delaney will see action in the coming weeks.
I'm surprised kevin kelly only lasted 40 odd minutes mid week could be fit enough for sunday unless cody is hoping he can reproduce the same performance against clare a few years ago in the park.

Cody turned down UL afaik
wouldn't train with them I believe

Rasputin11 wrote: »

Barry surely 2 or 3 inches taller and stronger build of a man too.

Padraig is about 6 foot, don't know his weight but I agree Barry looks bigger.

dubcat51 wrote: »

Currently at the cork v dublin game.cotk are woefull in the full back line.crummy just sent off for dublin.cork trying to feed the full fwd line all the time.

Terrible decision to send him off. Never a yellow the second one. Cork are woeful, doesn't say a lot for Clare. KK should beat them tomorrow

Congratulations to Carrickshock, a club that has given a lot to Kilkenny in recent years and has suffered a bit for it, delighted for Richie Power, John Tennyson and Michael Rice, represent everything that is good about Kilkenny hurling.

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

Topcat32 wrote: »

Congratulations to Carrickshock, a club that has given a lot to Kilkenny in recent years and has suffered a bit for it, delighted for Richie Power, John Tennyson and Michael Rice, represent everything that is good about Kilkenny hurling.

mooncoin were very unlucky also , the first game was a cracker , 2nd game all i could do is ask how the hell did carrickshock end up at that level in the first place , the powers and the tennysons were excellent , two scores from richie power and pat tennyson in the latter stages of the game stand out , 4 years ago was it when they lost to clara in the senior final ?

Kilkenny senior championship was massively competitive when they were relegated, even when they were in the county final it was widely agreed that beyond their star players carrickshock had a serious tail on the team and that they could be at risk of relegation. In any given year a lot of teams (dicksboro were another) were as likely to be in a relegation final as a county final.

unrealtime wrote: »

With only. 12 senior clubs and an outstanding selection of players for such a small county, we have real quality at intermediate level. Many of our intermediate teams would be senior elsewhere.

As regards the county, I hope I'm completely wrong but I am worried about today and the rest of the league. With many of the old certainties and reliables gone, I don't believe that Cody has much of a clue as to his best selectionright now. Hope he listens more to his fellow team managers.

Definately - if you look at teams who have won Intermediate and came up, Clare for example, their is such small margins between senior and intermediate. B'brige would be the same.


In other counties, there is a huge difference between senior and intermediate and intermediate to junior to an extent also.

8 points in one half of hurling, most from frees from what I gather, against Clare, one of the worst defences out there?

I know there's no AI titles won in February, but they can certainly be lost in February by not getting things right and continuing in that vein.

My two biggest worries are who do we have to do a covering job in midfield to allow a slow defence to sit back and be compact, and where is the pace and invention up front apart from Reid and Hogan? Our forwards and midfield are seriously limited in the striking, pace and creativity.

Not just that, but the ball forward always seems to be a sky ball, and totally unsuited to favouring forwards. Fair enough forwards have to be able to win their own ball, but the odds can be tipped in their favour.

I worry for this year, and the next few unless something resembling a more inventive game starts coming from Kilkenny, we look stale and predictable in our approach

We sound like an absolute shambles. Getting hammered

davidx40 wrote: »

I think we are really going to struggle this year and next few years , when brian said last september about players on panel that were going to be big stars i dont know who he was talking about , we just dont have quality anymore its not there , when you see players playing inter county hurling that cant hit ball on weak side you know your in trouble

These things come in cycles. I'm not writing Kilkenny off yet but the constant success has to end sometime. You just can't keep producing top players the whole time.

Firstly a very definite chance of relegation now and Wexford will fancy their chances against us in the Summer. I guess this has been coming, we have lost some incredible players over the last few years who havent been replaced. A half fit Kevin Kelly starting is a sign of that. Unless Colin Fennelly and Ger Alyward have the year of their lives this year we are in trouble, only players on the panel that have real speed.

unrealtime wrote: »

Cody should take a sabbatical for the rest of the league and let the rest of the management team take over.

What would be the benifit of that? It clearly wont happen, just interested in what you think the rest of the management could do?