Are you not from Waterford?? I stand by all I said. This move has hugely negative connotations and knock on effects for Kilkenny.
He didn't have to take the job. He could have waited another year or two. It's not like he is managing someone like Laois who are not really a direct competitor. I'll skip the token "I wish him well.." drivel and call it how I see it.
And I'd agree with the point that the county board should be put out to the grass.
He'll be managing against a fair few Ballyhale lads next year all the same.
Thomastown ain't senior yet
He said at the start of the year he wouldn't manage against Ballyhale so this was always a one year gig with Thomastown
I wouldn't be happy if I was from Thomastown, could the announcement not have waited until Thomastown were finished in the intermediate championship. Might drive them all on but if they don't win it......it's a stick to beat him with. Disappointed with Co.Board they couldn't or wouldn't shift Cody out. That panel is crying out for change. Good luck to him all the same
Good luck to him, an ambitious and ballsy move, instead of waiting for a Cody retirement that will likely never come.
Very good points being made here on what this will likely do to some of our best county men (most especially the Ballyhale contingent), and accurate I believe that this will do a lot of harm.
Any of them hanging on waiting for Shefflin to step in and re-energise everything will be gutted by this and may well call it a day rather than another 2,3,4 years of Cody's stale dogma.
This is a Kilkenny mess, even if we have a dire year in 2022 and Cody is finally shifted, our undoubted number one choice replacement is now out of reach for 3 years.
I am usually optimistic about Kilkenny hurling but I feel things are going to get worse before they ever get better.
Think you are speaking to the wrong man, I edited a misspelling of "terrible"
Galway woman apparently. Just wondering really...
Don't blame Henry for taking the Galway job, lots of good hurlers there already and plenty of young talent coming through the ranks.
I wouldn't blame him also for not taking an underage role or a selectors role here. If he wants to be a top level manager he has to take opportunities like this when they arise and If the county board didn't remove Cody then there isn't any opportunity here in Kilkenny.
Are you serious? Hurling public in KK will wish him well and many of us will wonder why he wasn't snapped up when we had the chance. How on Earth is it Henry's fault we have to put up with it? Should he take a selector role, like all the lads before him to shout at the wall for a year or two and walk out with his reputation undermined by continued lack of success? Or should he go where he's wanted and valued? Not a hard decision. Henry is not a fool, he'll do what's best for his progress.
And in the longer term it might well stand to us, if he progresses well in Galway and we finally see some sense, he might be available.
Cyril Farrell is due on Off the Ball to talk about the talent pool in Galway. It's a competitive senior championship with 24 teams, and loads of recent success at underage level. Shefflin will have done his homework.
In my humble opinion, the Kilkenny county board should be sacked en-masse.
Henry was dead right not to go in as number 2 under Cody. Cody barely listens to his selectors, Henry is a leader not a follower.
There is never any shortage of hurling talent in Galway, as good as any county out there if Henry and the back room team can get them to click they wonβt be far away.
What does that have to do with anything?!
You'd want to be some bollocks to begrudge Henry taking that job. I think this is good news in the long term. He gets an idea what's involved in top level management and we get an idea what his actual level is. Be interested in seeing who he brings with him bar O Neill who goes everywhere with him. Huge risk taken by both parties here though. Galway going for someone who has very little management experience again and Henry taking such a high profile job where expectations are always through the roof.
I wish him limited luck.
If he beats Cody next year though the pressure for change will be undeniable.
Please explain how this was a stroke from Henry?? ππ he's not bound to wait til Cody has left the post.
I sincerely hope so π
A very interesting, left field appointment. Next year's (putative) Leinster final would be very tasty!
Who is Richie O'Neill's missus?
This has many knock on effects not least the impact on the Ballyhale lads. It's difficult to accept considering it is obvious now that he would no doubt have taken the kk job if offered. This piles even more pressure on Cody and let's face it we are not likely to realistically challenge for let alone win an all ireland next year under the current setup. The more time goes on the more he looks like yesterdays man.
Also, for me Henry has dirtied his bib a bit here doing this. I'm not sure I would personally want him getting the hot seat now after a stroke like this. He had to have realised how such a move would have been received by the hurling public here. The media and other hurling counties will only love this and we are the ones that have to put up with that so thanks a bunch Henry.
I'm fairly sure Cody asked him in a couple of times but he obviously didn't relish the idea of it. The underage positions don't seem to have been offered or of interest. I think it's a great move for Henry personally and fair dues to him.
All these great players who won numerous all Irelands are hitting 40 and are hungry to prove themselves as managers. They cant wait for ever for Cody to go. Massive kick up the back side for Ned Quinn and the county board.
I would also fear that players who were staying on in the hope that Cody might be replaced by Henry etc next year might decide to pull the plug.
I fear we could have an exodus from the panel. Some might say their old and need to go but it would strip the panel of experience and virtually all its All Ireland winners.
I expect Joey and Hogan to go regardless given the treatment they've recieved.
I wouldn't be surprised if Buckley, Wally, Fogarty and Blanchfield didn't go back.
My biggest fear is that TJ and Eoin Murphy will also go. I've heard TJ has struggled since he was sick after the AI semi this has to be a massive blow to his chances of winning another AI. Murphy by all accounts has been hugely frustrated by the mixed messages he gets about puckouts and to be honest I think he's gone from the best keepers in the country to just being good the last two years.
I hope I'm wrong on all of this and I'm not trying to retire anyone but the above would not surprise me if we heard these names leaving before Christmas hopefully not.
We'll regret that.
Three year agreement according to RTE
Look its not to dissimilar to tipperary and Liam cahill.Henry cut his teeth In ballyhale and the obvious progression was the county team.Its fairly well known he turned down a selectors role and infairness its hard to blame him.Cody will be here for the next few years.County board is full of yes men so what's he meant to do?
massive blow to Kilkenny. Brian Cody offered Henry a role last year but Henry declined. Will be interesting to see did he make the right move.
This is all but confirmed and should be tonight. Apparently Richie O'Neill is going with him. I think they will do very well with those players. I wouldn't blame Henry at all what's he to do, wait around for the blind to see the light?
RTE.ie: Henry Shefflin set to manage Galway hurlers.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2021/1020/1254963-henry-shefflin-set-to-take-charge-of-galway-hurlers/
Serious edit there π
No one seen this coming and obviously best of luck to him but surely we missed something here and should of got him involved somehow.
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Yes, this is doing rounds all afternoon and from good sources.
If true, terrible news for Kilkenny.
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