Kilkenny GAA Thread Part 2 MOD NOTE POST 1*

blackcard · 22-04-2017 09:11PM

Comer beat Mullinavat by 7 points in what I thought was a disappointing match though Comer will not think so. Comer lead by seven at half-time helped by a goalkeepers mistake in gifting them a goal. Although Vat got a goal early in the second half, Comer regained control. John Walsh and Michael Malone were disappointing for Vat. Conor Delaney and Conor Fogarty were decent for Comer.

minty81 · 22-04-2017 09:15PM

Carrickshock and the rower was enjoyable alright but bizarre that neither of the teams had a change of kit. Dunno how the players were picking each other out

Shirleysrumbler · 22-04-2017 09:51PM

minty81 wrote: »

Carrickshock and the rower was enjoyable alright but bizarre that neither of the teams had a change of kit. Dunno how the players were picking each other out

Long running dispute here. Rower abjectly refuse to change and Shocks have normally worn yellow strip for this tie. Shocks made Co Board rule on change for both teams in '15 QF . Co Board said Rower didn't have to change(Despite presense of red logo on Shocks Jersey).Shocks changed voluntarily for draw and Rower still wouldn't reciprocate in Replay.TBH when Rower aren't fighting among themselves they're experts at p***ing off everybody else in South Kilkenny.

phkk · 22-04-2017 10:12PM

A very enjoyable match in Tullaroan tonight between Fenians and Graigue/B. Bally started with two good points from play from Billy Ryan and Willie O'Connor. Fenians responded and dominated for the next 15 mins, Mark Webster scoring some nice frees. He has a lovely style of free taking, well worth a watch if anybody gets the chance to see him in action. JJ was imperious in the full back position, catching some great ball in that classic style of his. Bally came back into it before ht, gaining the upper hand to lead at the interval 0-7 v 0-6.
The second half ebbed and flowed and it was intense. The first goal was always going to prove crucial and so it proved, falling to the Fenians men with a well taken goal by Niall Carroll, who picked up a quick sideline to race through from midfield and bury it past Ciaran Hoyne in the G/B goal, giving him no chance. In the lead up to that sideline, Fenians were bearing down on goal and should have had a penalty, the attacker clearly fouled by an awful and wreck less pull but it was somehow missed by the referee, and play was waved on. The ball was cleared over the sideline. However, a Fenians mentor must have been watching too much of Davy Fitz and encroached onto the field and abused and threatened the referee. This same mentor is a well known GAA coach and let himself down badly with his behaviour. Fenians subsequently scored the goal from the next phase of play, much to the pleasure of their supporters. Niall Carroll was starting to dominate in midfield, John Henderson was excellent at centre back and JJ was JJ, pure class! However, G/B scored a fantastic goal of their own through Sean O'Dwyer to bring them right back into it. Exchanges were tough and tense at this stage but it was the Fenians who finished stronger to pull away with a 6 point win, the score line a little disingenuous to the G/B effort. Best on the night were JJ, Henderson, Carroll, Kieran Grehan for the Fenians.
James Ryall battled away at centre back for G/B, who had a young look to their team with three of their Kilkenny minor panel all starting, and impressing in their first intermediate game for the club, Tommy Ronan at corner back and two corner forwards in Sean Ryan and Jesse Roberts. Billy Ryan looked lively at midfield, Ger Teehan and Colum Prendiville were others to hurl well.
A word on Tullaroan, full marks to their efforts in stewarding( must have been 40), pitch was pristine and had an electronic scoreboard which was great, giving time and score line.

brookville · 22-04-2017 10:25PM

minty81 wrote: »

Carrickshock and the rower was enjoyable alright but bizarre that neither of the teams had a change of kit. Dunno how the players were picking each other out

Agreed it was hard to recognise which team had the ball at times

jeff bingham · 22-04-2017 11:30PM

minty81 wrote:

Carrickshock and the rower was enjoyable alright but bizarre that neither of the teams had a change of kit. Dunno how the players were picking each other out

Though it was a decent match myself. Very physical. Rower are a huge side.
Carrickshock played some serious hurling in the first 15 mins raced into a 7 points to 1 lead. Rower came back to level it up in 1st half. Rower better team in 2nd half but shocks got 1-1 in last few mins for the draw. Richie leahy tore his hamstring while soloing the ball. Looked a bad enough tear. He looks very light for senior club never mind county. Kieran Joyce had a decent game. Pat Lyng midfield looks a small bit awkward but threw over a good few points in the end. Tom Murphy was good aswell. Conor Joyce was a handful as usual. For shocks Wexford man eanna martin was excellent at CB got 2 from play. Mark o dywer their best forward. John power quite enough but still got 1 goal and 2 points? Could have won it at end with a shot saved out for the leveling 65. Missing tennyson and Richie they will be happy enough.

dobbs2210 · 23-04-2017 12:01AM

Really liked the look of Eanna Martin. Fantastic hurler, great pace and strength. Got 2 great points and supplied some lovely ball. He is a massive addition to Carrickshock.

Carrickshock missing John Tennyson, Richie Power and Davy Franks badly hurt then.

John Power was very poor tonight.

citykat · 23-04-2017 04:18PM

Village won handy enough against the Bridge. The latter played with a sweeper in the first half to little effect. This allowed Jackie free rein. Bridge huffed and puffed but went in behind at half time. Second half the Village forwards got on top and picked off some nice scores. Best for the Village were all the ex county players, Scanlon, Crowdle. Morrissey and Cleere were best for the Bridge. Blanchfield was poor. Lennon ok.

unrealtime · 23-04-2017 05:47PM

See Galway hammered Tipp. Tipp are very overrated. The current bunch have always been just a score or two from being thrashed as we have shown throughout this decade. We don't have the team now to do it but others have.

dobbs2210 · 23-04-2017 06:16PM

Village racked up a very decent score and combined very well at times. Played a nice brand of hurling. Bennettsbridge were atrocious at best. Scored 3 points from play in the entire game. They are not all that they are cracked up to be.

O'Loughlin gaels hammered the crap outta St. Martins.

droppingball · 23-04-2017 07:28PM

Attended mooncoin thomastown match this evening, poor enough fair. Thomastown won by 7 points, seemed to have the better bench which turned the game.

Mooncoin took an awful lot out of the ball and ran into contact way too much. They should be good enough to stay up however and need to get hennebry at full forward on the ball.

John Donnelly for thomastown ran the show with some sweet scores distribution and a great sideline cut. Assume he is with the 21s because he would be good option at centre forward.

FrankCummins · 23-04-2017 07:48PM

Well done to our camogie ladies on putting two league titles back to back.

dastardly00 · 23-04-2017 09:07PM

unrealtime wrote: »

See Galway hammered Tipp. Tipp are very overrated. The current bunch have always been just a score or two from being thrashed as we have shown throughout this decade. We don't have the team now to do it but others have.

Is that what we have become? Rub Tipp's nose in it when they lose the league final... Even though we've had a pretty poor league campaign ourselves :rolleyes:

dastardly00 · 23-04-2017 09:08PM

FrankCummins wrote: »

Well done to our camogie ladies on putting two league titles back to back.

Yes, well done to the camogie team, congrats!

citykat · 23-04-2017 09:40PM

Well deserved win for the Boro in a lively encounter. Lead from from centre back by Buckley, Boro had a better balance especially up front where there was a good spread of scorers. They were made earn this win by Shamrocks who combined excellently at times. They were though heavily dependent on TJ for scores who continued his excellent inter county form. Richie Reid got on the scoreboard but was out of it at times at MF. Colin Fennelly got a trademark goal but spent most of the match mouthing at the ref. He doesn't look fit to me. Mick didn't feature.
Buckley was excellent at CB. Walsh was solid continuing his form from last year. Cody was sound at FB. In this form he could do a job for the Cats imo.

brookville · 23-04-2017 09:42PM

droppingball wrote: »

Attended mooncoin thomastown match this evening, poor enough fair. Thomastown won by 7 points, seemed to have the better bench which turned the game.

Mooncoin took an awful lot out of the ball and ran into contact way too much. They should be good enough to stay up however and need to get hennebry at full forward on the ball.

John Donnelly for thomastown ran the show with some sweet scores distribution and a great sideline cut. Assume he is with the 21s because he would be good option at centre forward.

Donnelly is in with the 21s he was good last year with the minors.
Bit of a suprise the boro beating ballyhale today anyone know who played well?

brookville · 23-04-2017 09:46PM

citykat wrote: »

Well deserved win for the Boro in a lively encounter. Lead from from centre back by Buckley, Boro had a better balance especially up front where there was a good spread of scorers. They were made earn this win by Shamrocks who combined excellently at times. They were though heavily dependent on TJ for scores who continued his excellent inter county form. Richie Reid got on the scoreboard but was out of it at times at MF. Colin Fennelly got a trademark goal but spent most of the match mouthing at the ref. He doesn't look fit to me. Mick didn't feature.
Buckley was excellent at CB. Walsh was solid continuing his form from last year. Cody was sound at FB. In this form he could do a job for the Cats imo.

It's a pity we didn't try someone else at 3 during the league. How did conor doheny or the gaffneys go for the boro? I thought colin was injured

JJs Left Hand · 23-04-2017 09:47PM

Ballyhale don't care about the league. Their training is completely tailored around peaking for the knockout.

dubcat51 · 23-04-2017 10:00PM

Well done the kittens.donnelly of thomastown good minor last year great paw on him.

citykat · 24-04-2017 12:02AM

brookville wrote: »

It's a pity we didn't try someone else at 3 during the league. How did conor doheny or the gaffneys go for the boro? I thought colin was injured

They had Doheny try to man mark TJ. He wasn't very successful but he did hit some ball of his own. A Gaffney played well. Scored the frees. M Gaffney had a quieter evening.

robwen · 24-04-2017 01:16AM

Was Cha involved for the Shamrocks or Henry?

How come Michelle Quilty last year's camogie captain wasn't listed for league final, injured?

Realt Dearg Sec · 24-04-2017 01:47AM

robwen wrote: »

Was Cha involved for the Shamrocks or Henry?

How come Michelle Quilty last year's camogie captain wasn't listed for league final, injured?

Cha and henry weren't involved, no.

unrealtime · 24-04-2017 05:12AM

There was a huge number of changes from the camogie All Ireland last autumn. Maybe players are being rested. They all can't have retired

brookville · 24-04-2017 07:12AM

citykat wrote: »

They had Doheny try to man mark TJ. He wasn't very successful but he did hit some ball of his own. A Gaffney played well. Scored the frees. M Gaffney had a quieter evening.

Thanks for the info

Village87 · 24-04-2017 08:34AM

Very good round of club action the weekend. i tried get in as many games as i could:
Danesfort v Clara:
Good win Danesfort, Clara seem disjointed, but i presume they will get stronger as the year goes on. R Hogan was a class apart, Clara had nobody for him. Shane Prendergast should have been on him for the match, P Murphy solid but stick work not the best.

Carrickshock v Rower/Inistioge:
Carrickshock got off to a great start but faded away and were 4 points down going into Injury time, Dwyer got a goal and John Power could have won it with a chance soon after, good stop by the keeper. R Leahy went off Injured & John Power very poor. Decent finish

James Stephens v Bennetsbridge:
Good win for our lads as they looked that bit sharper, Bbridge played a sweeper and were doing well with Nicky Cleere having a great first 25mins, the game changed 5/6 minuted before half time when we came to terms with the sweeper and scored 1-3 before half time, that cushion allowed us to push on for the game. Robert Lennon was ok, Jason Cleere i thought was poor as was Liam Blanchfield, Luke Scanlon looked light out there, and only really came into the game in the second half when we were getting on top.

Tullaroan v Tullogher
Went down for a look at the 2 Tommy Walshs in particular for this. Have to say i really enjoyed this game the most the weekend, 4 goals in the first half and teams going at it hard, was like championship at times. Tullaroan look very sharp and should be senior looking at this, although Tullogher can count themselves unlucky when the game was in the melting pot they missed two great goal chances in the second half, 2 great saves by the keeper. Keoghan wing forward was my man of the match, very direct player, Padraig Walsh had a decent game, a great duel with Tullogher centre back Pat Hartley who kept him quiet for long spells, Walter Walsh gave young Tommy Walsh a horrid evening, while the other Tommy Walsh had a very good game midfield, 2 inside forward for Tullogher, Henessey and Donaghue were a big threat and must have scored 1-6 or 7 between them and unlucky not to score more. Very enjoyable game

Noddy33 · 24-04-2017 09:02AM

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

robwen wrote: »

Was Cha involved for the Shamrocks or Henry?

How come Michelle Quilty last year's camogie captain wasn't listed for league final, injured?

Cha and henry weren't involved, no.

Contrary to what someone previously mentioned on thread here Cha has not returned to Ballyhale ranks yet. He a keen golfer so no doubt his summer months will be spent on the golf courses but after last nights viewing it surely have to be in Ballyhales interest to try and convince to return in some capacity for atleast the championship phase.Henry probably on a extended break before returning. Fairly sure he took similar extended break last year too
Michelle Quilty got married on the Saturday just gone so thats the reason for her absence yesterday. Good win for them considering alot of new players this year. Thought Meg Farrell,Dalton and Katie Power were a different class

wingbacknr5 · 24-04-2017 09:04AM

robwen wrote: »

Was Cha involved for the Shamrocks or Henry?

How come Michelle Quilty last year's camogie captain wasn't listed for league final, injured?

Michelle got married on Saturday AFAIK.

Noddy33 · 24-04-2017 09:31AM

Danesfort V Clara:

Fort did all the hurling in first half and only for a rather fortunate enough goal for Clara they went in behind at half time. Clara started second half very strongly but then richie hoga took over with a great goal followed by an outrageous point on the right hand side touchline and then one on the left hand sideline. Danesfort fully deserved winners. Murphy was solid and Paddy Hogan was very good too although he did have a few bad wides. Richie was a joy to watch. For Clara their forwards are pretty weak. Bolger looked sharp when had ball and was very good on frees. Stephen Quinlan played very well too.Lester was average and Pender was their best back. Interesting to see Killian Phelan back in the goal but thought he had a few shaky moments

Shocks V Rower:
The Inistioge lads will feel they left this one behind. Pat Lyng dominated the second half for 15 mins and chipped in 3 great points. The rower forwards are weak and they relied on midfield and half backs to try keep the score board ticking. Leahy injury looked very bad so envisage a few weeks on the side line for him. No sign of Michael Grace so assuming he is injured and not retired. Joe Lyng was decent and Joyce played well.

For the shocks Eanna Martin was very good and when they have John Tennyson back they will have a very strong half back line. John Power scored 1-1 from play but drifted in and out of the game. He had a great goal chance at the end but for some odd reason he ran away from the goal to tighten the angle and it was a rather comfortable save for the keeper.

Boro V Ballyhale:

Very young Boro team were full value here. Cillian Buckley was outstanding and covered huge ground in his battle with TJ who did chip in with 3 from play. The boro inside forward line is a very small but they worked very hard and won some frees that Gaffney converted. Ballyhale were missing 3 Mullens, Henry, Mick Fenn, Eoin Reid among some other squad players so they will only improve from here on. Richie Reid was midfield and started very brightly with two great points. It was his first game in nearly 3 months so he did tire as the game progressed. Joey was centre back was good while Colin got the goal but struggled to make of an impact and Evan Cody won the battle there. Ballyhale have Clara up next so that really should be a great game

Bob Aylward was joined on the pitch by his son which is something I have never seen before at senior club level in KK and at 39 years of age Bob still going very strongly

kkclubhurling · 24-04-2017 10:25AM

Thought all three town teams were fairly impressive this weekend for different reasons, left OLG vs Martins early but from what I saw O Loughlins really dominated and didn't get dragged into any niggle. They used the ball very well and took their scores well, Martins were very poor though, they'll need to find a few extra gears or their in big trouble.

Thought James Stephens looked good too, as some people have mentioned they played a lovely brand of hurling, their corners forwards really benefited from the quality of ball in and some of the scores Brian Crowdle got were excellent, a mention for Tomas Keogh who played around 50 mins at full back, I thought he was excellent, didn't give Blanchfield a sniff in the first half and the first shot on the Village goal came after he went off.

I'd have to disagree with the poster who said Ballyhale don't care about the league, no one likes losing the first round, especially when faced with such a tight group as this one, I felt Boro just out fought them, had a good plan and executed it well, their new centre forward Stapleton is an addition and I felt refreshed a forward line which over the last few years had been somewhat predictable. Ballyhale will improve massively and I'd still have them as favorites to be county champions this year, however, they are not the team they were in the mid 00's!

I think Boro vs James Stephens could be a great battle in the next round, Boro have had a bit of an indian sign over the Village over the last 5 or so years at nearly all grades so there could be a bit of spice in it as the Village look to get a bit of revenge. The two contrasting styles could be very interesting aswell, it'll be interesting to see if either team makes any alterations in an attempt to come out on top.

DickoHara · 24-04-2017 12:24PM

Things must have changed a lot if the Shamrocks are not interested in the league.

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