Shots fired!!!
I do agree that nowlan Park is gone fierce dirty. If it was washed or painted up all the walls around it would make a huge difference. I've seen lads on the kk gaa website asking them to do more around the grounds. It wouldn't cost a fortune.
John donnelly looks to be in a race against time to play against Dublin after picking up a bad thumb injury potentially broken.
Bringing Bruce to kilkenny brought in a massive influx of cash to the local economy and straight into the county boards coffers, which can be used to promote the game and prepare our teams. But this guy is suggesting we should turn that down so that the pitch could be pristine and rossiter could complain about something else, and that this would have shown a greater commitment to higher standards on the part of the board.
The Park has long needed some updates.
The toilets are a health hazard with the smell. The seating should really be reserved in the covered stands. Floodlights should have been installed a decade ago.
It's also very generic. Now I'm now one for seeing the County Board waste money, but stick a few flagpoles with Kilkenny flags everywhere. Have a display showing the crests and colours of every club in Kilkenny. You wouldn't know it was Kilkenny's home ground with the lack of colour and character in the place.
He or she would do alot better than your club man and his band of merry men at U20
so the fact that the pitch was damaged is an indication of the state of Kilkenny hurling ??
Is that what you are trying to infer? A bit of an over reach , but listen, people try find fault everywhere , even when it has no bearing on the end result…..
(if Kilkenny win nothing this year , Do we blame the area around the 21yrd line on the ardan OCearbhaill end as the catalyst ?)
There's no problem….The bar is just being set very low I feel across our hurling set-up and structures. This is just another example of it.
But listen, it's no big deal. No one really cares anymore…………………..We are where we are. We might be here a bit longer too I'd say.
Wheres the problem??
Please girls no need for the bitching.
https://www.tipperarylive.ie/news/gaa/1514851/nowlan-park-will-be-playable-and-safe-for-u20-all-ireland-final-vows-kilkenny-pro.html
PRO having to come out and defend the condition of the pitch surface.
"But it is playable, it is safe. And in the next few days, with the rain drying up - I don't think there is going to be any problem"
Thank got she thinks we will meet the minimum standard
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I assume you will be taking over the role of U20 manager next year and maybe you might take over the minor and the senior team as well seen as you were such a good club manager.
I see AI Minor quarter finals are on Monday, double header in Thurles.
I assume we meet the winners of Clare and Wexford?
Just because 3 people are in disagreement with you it has to be duplicate accounts, there is someone who values there own opinion. No comment from you on the u20 and complete fiasco Mark Dowling was conducting either after you defended him to last after the 2023 defeat also.
Ahh ok.. yes…. Thats it
I’d say your thinking of codys last year Blanchfield played all the league and maybe the 1st championship game it didn’t go well and I don’t think he was started after that he came on in that years all Ireland and made a difference looking back he should have started that day
It's Drennan that happened with last year, started the first championship match, was taken off and rarely appeared after that.
did similar happen with Blanchfield last year ?
Played well in the Lge, then disappeared?? (* i may be TOTALLY wrong …..* 😏 )
Lyng has been slow enough to try lads and the Killian Doyle thing was very strange one. Shane Murphy, Jordan Molloy and Owen Wall were probably the only players that got some decent game time.
As you say Shane Murphy was one of the finds of the league but probably a bit unlucky that he’s best suited to wing back where we have better options imo.
How come the find of the year was moved to midfield against Dublin and then dropped for the Wexford game. Shane Murphy would be the first name down at wing back. We are into to June and we couldn’t pick 10 players in there right positions. Lyng is a very hard man to figure out.
So 2 changes really as Mullen starts when fit.
I'd have absolutely no reason to deflect for starters and regardless I said the pitch was in poor condition so if that's deflecting it's a poor effort. If you feel embarrassed by the state of the pitch that's your provocative. The point I was making was rightly or wrongly the ticket situation got more traction in national media than the condition of the pitch. If Nowlan Park was a 40k venue and pitch was in that condition there would have been no petition stirred up by the Offaly bandwagon, anyway looks like the concerns were slightly premature as there will be tickets returned from the allocation gone to clubs in Tipp.
Interesting article in the IT today about how little unenforced changes Lyng has made since the AI in 2022. 12 of the team who started in 2022 started last Sunday. The exceptions were Padraig Walsh retired, Conor Browne travelling and Adrian Mullen not fully fit. These were replaced by David Blanchfield, Tom Phelan and John Donnelly
Ignore button is on for 3 posters. Could be one person.
Try tell that to Offaly supporters if it does not go well Saturday and their light forwards are slipping and sliding and fumbling on the broken up surface. I agree the pitch should be majestic for an All Ireland u20 final.
But then again i had a great night at Bruce and the county board made a few pound just unlucky that Bruce came available at the wrong time. Hopefully they can get it patched up in time
The pitch issue is totally exaggerated. Free/lineball takers always look for the best spot. The second Wexford goal was worked through the "bad" area and was well taken. There was no obvious problem apparent on Sunday. Another excuse to have a go. Rossiter mentioned it but had nothing to say about his team's indiscipline. Jason Ryan's football tactics contributed to this indiscipline. Deflection tactic by Rossiter.
While not as strong on the point as Wing Back I agree the Park is not in a fit state to hold an All Ireland final. Chin had a free near the end of the game on Sunday and spent a bit of time trying to find some grass to put the ball on. I'd imagine it's in fairly rag order this week and the weather so far this week wouldn't be helping it to recover. If it was a run of the mill round robin game it would be no big deal but for an All Ireland final the players deserve an immaculate pitch. And the argument that the ball is in the air 90% of the time doesn't wash. Right on the 21 yard line where the difference between a score and no score could be how quick a forward can snap a ball into their hand is critical.
Like I said, I don't want to comment on it anymore. But you've coaxed it out of me
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I think the attitude taken is clear….standards are slipping in Kilkenny and the condition we intend to present our hallowed ground at a centenary commemoration All Ireland hurling final says a lot, and the fact that majority of Kilkenny supporters are not embarrassed is just one example of those standards slipping.
BTW: I never outlined there was a danger to the players. I just said they deserved the best on what will be the biggest day of their hurling careers for many I would imagine. Your attitude that they have hurled on worse speaks volumes for your attention to detail.
My team for the leinster final would be:
Murphy
Butler Lawlor Walsh
Blanchfield Reid Carey
Deegan Kenny
Donnelly TJ Mullen
Mossy Ryan Cody
Subs:
Tallis
Delaney Corcanan
Murphy Buckley
Molloy Fogarty
Wally Phelan
Shine Wall
Its a pitch …. It will recover. A needless distraction.
Its not as if theres holes or trenches across the pitch - it will be sorted by the weekend im sure… But lets all harp on about it as if it is a danger to players ……….
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Very little pride taken in our home ground around here I see.
Attention to detail got us to the top in hurling under Brian Cody, with nothing but the best expected from all stakeholders.
I see our standards have slipped considerably.
Very disappointed with that attitude…..Won't be commenting on this issue any further.
Well I think you are completely overplaying this one personally. 90% of the pitch was immaculate last Sunday. Yes we could all see there was one patch in bad state but it didn't impact on the game and both teams coped fine with it. By this weekend coming I expect it to be improved. Calling it a cabbage patch is just dramatic nonsense.
We already heard Adam Screeney after the Leinster final talking about how it would be a privilege to play in Nowlan Park. They will all be up for this and not one of them will be complaining about the state of the pitch.
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