Kilkenny GAA Thread

Soaking the hurley the night before.... Small margins ?

What a strike. I read that it was travelling at 180kmph ?

Looking to hear from season ticket holders. No hard copy plastic tickets been issued this year you are issued an e ticket through your account but just noticed i have been issued tickets for only 4 of our league matches, Dublin in Parnell park the missing ticket, anyone else have this issue?

Also not sure how this e ticket system is going to work come the club action later in the year, are they going to be issuing e tickets for Junior league matches?!

It definitely includes the Senior club finals day, not sure about the Junior.

Any chance Ronan Corcoran will be back for the club final

Got email back what it says is once these tickets become available you will be notified by email in advance.

James o Connor said after the semi final they're hopeful that ronan corcoran will be back. He was a loss the other day because he has being very good throughout. Darren mullens injury could be serious I think I read it was AC shoulder. The match up we all expected might not go ahead now with dessie so it'll be interesting to see what they do here. Will they move back darragh corcoran maybe?Darren mullen is cursed with injury we mightnt get to see him reach his full potential In a kk jersey. It has the makings of a cracking match. Shamrocks have got out of jail a few times amd ballygunner look to have that little bit extra in them and win at all cost this year although apart from the quick goals the last day there was little in their match.

Kieran’s we’re beaten by an amalgamation of South Dublin schools who can’t progress beyond the Leinster championship. Both Kilkenny schools play each other now and either one can still progress.

That’s good to hear one of them still has a chance to progress.

Is Walter Walsh teaching in Good Council or is he still in that school in Dublin.

I'd be appalled to hear Kieran's did anyting like that and frankly doubt they did. Suggesting they may have actually paid for players to attend the school is for me well out of order,

Also, there were 7 schools (not 5) in the Leinster A section this year and all were good standard. Some of the games in the Harty were terribly one sided

He is in the counsel now. Miley purcell from the rower and declan Wall from mullinavat over the team

Makes sense to ask the Galway schools in. The Harty cup had some one sided games but in general it was excellent this year with a first time finalist in Tulla. It's a competition that gets stronger year on year with rugby playing schools like CBC and Bandon Grammar ,Ard Scoil Ris all competitive every year now. People might not realise that CBC and Ard Scoil are still 'A' rugby schools.

Questions have to be asked about the overall relevance of schools hurling in the grander scheme of things. Kierans have dominated the All Ireland series but its not transferring to the minor teams. A concentration of talent in one or 2 schools in a county may not be such a good plan. Granted good counsel have helped.

To be fair callan are putting in a big effort recently..conor fogarty/ canice hickey/pj delaney also brian butler drom ballyhale are all teachers there and involved in the teams..the first year's went away to kilkenny for a day recently and did lots on work on fitness/ conditioning/ diet etc

St. Kieran’s seems to be a bit of a problem maybe not of it’s own making.but the facts remain that a huge amount of young lads have ambitions to be inter county hurlers. Now if 250 young lads go into first year how many are not going to make the team panel of thirty ( because there is no B team) that leaves an awful lot of disappointed young lads who will feel washed up at such an early age, where as if they went to their local schools they would be playing . I heard that the vocational schools competition could be making a comeback.

I think people forget sometimes that Kieran's is a school and it's main focus is to educate lads in more than just hurling. A lot of children go to the big Kilkenny schools because of perceived educational quality and where the parents themselves went to school. They're not going to go change school because their youngster has a better chance of playing matches in the local vocational school. Take Thomastown for example, if you get the bus from Thomastown to Kilkenny in the morning it's full of teens from Thomastown, Inistioge and to a lesser extent the surrounding areas going to Kierans, CBS, Loreto and Presentation and the Gaelscoil used to have it's own bus from instead of going to Grennan. And that's not including parents who drive their kids into Kilkenny City.

Personally I feel that any underage development plan in Kilkenny has to be done through the clubs, I feel that people over emphasize the schools aspect in the development of hurlers. .