Kilkenny GAA Thread

Agreed Blackcard but I was comparing him to Ronnie who rarely knows players names but knows their fathers, mothers and grandfathers etc. Not to mention the "schamozzles" 🙄

Tried to watch the U19 final on the app, cannot watch it full screen on the phone or cast it to the TV, waste of time.

The ticket price is worth it just to watch TJ on a sunny day, absolute class.

A glorious day in the park and a comprehensive win. It looks like antrim have gone backwards. They had no gameplan for delivery of ball into their forwards. That being said kilkenny were full value for their 32 point win. Poor opposition but our backs hurled well. Shane Murphy and mikey carey giving us a few more options coming out of defence. Midfield good. Mullen going off early first half and Cody early in the 2nd half hopefully only precautions. Cody's touch not great today and he really needs to lay off more ball when the situation needs it.

Owen Wall struck 2 beauties and added 2 more points. He's another option there. Drennan better today and got the flick in that led to the last goal.

Tom phelan rusty as was said earlier but he needs games now. Tj his usual excellent self bar the penalty save. Donnelly decent most the way through.

Way tougher test in salthill next sunday and Mullen and Cody will be needed up there.

Great win for the minors yesterday they did the basics very well hooks flicks especially the backs

Over the last few years our minors have looked small and slow and not that physically developed this team have some lovely hurlers

Underage teams can be very inconsistent at times so it will be interesting to see how they go when the get a sterner test and play away from home

No much to read into today but nice to see the 2 Mikey’s back and Tom phealan who showed up well but I think centre back and midfield are still a worry for me Antrim got through us very easy at times

Tj is a joy to watch and the runs he makes are class our other forwards don’t seem to be able to make the same runs or open up the same space I thought our forwards really struggled when he went off

Hopefully Cody mullens and Murphy’s injuries aren’t to bad for next week

I know this is the Kilkenny thread, but are Limerick going to win this years All Ireland at their ease? Teams are able to stay with them for 50/55 mins (and even build big leads) but then just run out of gas. Are Limerick just a fitter team than the rest of us? Obviously they have fantastic hurlers but they seem to come into their own for the last 20 mins of games. Why do they seem more conditioned than other teams?

I know it's early days yet but interesting, and amusing, that one or two particular posters are so silent. Some just cannot bear good news. Hopefully the good news continues.

I wouldnt fancy taking on Limerick in Croke Park. They needed that scrappy win today. Hegarty amd Hayes ,lynch came good. They ll improve. Would you bet on Kilkenny beating Limerick in Croke Park this year? I wouldnt

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Way too much doom and gloom about Kilkenny hurling in recent years, just because we haven’t won a senior AI and we have had a few poor results at minor.

Our club hurling is by a distance the best in the country, meaning good hurlers are constantly playing very good quality hurling matches, even if playing Intermediate or even Junior.

I agree it is lazy to just say "we always have hurlers", but it doesn’t mean it isn’t true, it is true.

I think Limerick are burning oil and getting out of matches (like all great teams) by iron will and generous portions of good luck. Clare out played them yesterday for 55 mins but got mugged by 3 goals, two of which were clear square balls, and the other one should have been saved.

Clare also have to take the rap, they had Limerick by the throat 10-15 mins into 2nd half but didn’t go for jugular and try to rattle the net when they had the inside players to do so, instead going for long rangers that kept Lim within striking distance.This loss could really scar Clare.

In the last 4 meaningful matches Lim have played they been outplayed for long stretches, that is telling, it wasn’t happening 2020-2022.

Unlike Kilkenny in 2010 however, there isn’t an outstanding team nipping at their heels, there are 4-5 teams of roughly equal standard, none of whom are making a big statement of intent and Cork yet again flopping just when they looked like they might be dangerous. So Limerick may not have to reach 2020-2022 heigts to get the 5 done.

I'd have a bet because I'd get pretty favourable odds and rightly too ;)

In 2013 we saw players like Tommy coming to the end (Danny Sutcliffe walked all over him in Portlaoise) and overall everything seamed really laboured - lots of wides, frees against us, indiscipline, lower average return from forwards etc etc. Even though when you looked at us on paper we were still strong. We bet Tipp in that epic match in Nowlan Park because it was Tipp and no way would it all end to them on our home patch but after that was an epic against Waterford a week later and finally we couldn't raise it against Cork. I think we had Henry sent off for tapping a hurl by Barry Kelly but it felt they had our number a bit anyway. The point is that can be a pattern, and within that you get some bounces and on paper things are right - but overall it's a struggle and the real problems are deeper and harder to identify.

Of course this could be just wishful thinking but I personally don't think this will truly become apparent until we see them at Munster final and potentially in a semi final against us or Galway. There's no doubt their best on the day beats our best on the day but at least the league showed a poor performance from them and we have the capability to take them. I would question why, for all the talk about Clare, they always find a way to put their foot in it. Do they really have the belief or the history?

Here's a mad bet for the craic - Limerick to lose to Wexford in the qualifiers?

Yeah another one for the ‘mad sh1te written on the internet’ bucket - but it might pay for the young lads communion 😂