Kilkenny GAA Thread

Very poor for UCC are you for real. When UCC took him off they went completely out of the game. Obviously watching a different game. Your problem with Joe Fitz on this forum is a joke.

Very True for him and all the young players. Hopefully they all go well.g

Likewise don't think I have ever watched as much hurling in two days, roll on tomorrow.

Dicksboro short passing was to feet at times, expected more from them but reckon they will come good. Great heart from Tullaroan and some nice scores thrown in.

O loughlins didn't really have to hit top gear to beat Clara. Owen Wall looked very dangerous when he got on ball.

Thomastown moved the ball well and looked like they could have won by more, tucker hanrahan and stephen donnelly looked lively up front, looked like bad injury to Jay Burke who will be a huge loss.

Village might be few forwards short but Cian Kenny is a proper player and was very good on the ball but needed more help. Won't get easier for them with the boro next week, ttown and the bridge will be a cracker.

Great to have the club stuff back.

unbelievable , i have been keeping tabs on the waterford and tipp hurling championships the last few weeks the start of the kilkenny championship is going to be problematic for the next 6 or 8 weeks and i only watched the dicksboro v tullaroan game last night ,

standard is very high in kilkenny on the basis of last night

Are you including the Village in the big three?

I think Mullen Cody or Donnelly can all be top class free takers for Kilkenny given time and practise I suppose they have never had to take them on a regular basis due to they club having good free takers

Similar to Henry taking over from dj and Tj taking over from Henry the baton will be passed on from Tj

no sorry I meant , Ballyhale, Boro and OLG

OLG look the strongest to me. Not sure how many of the Ballyhale lads are going to be back and Kenny and Gaffney will be a loss to the Boro. Thomastown brought big support to their match, their home match next week against the Bridge should be good. Glenmore were missing Alan Murphy, Ian Byrne and Ger Aylward didn't start today but I thought they were poor. Bridge looked good but hit a lot of wides.

Any real stand outs ?

From the games I was at/watched on clubber:

OLG - Eoin Wall

Boro - Harry Shine, Kevin Moore

Tullaroan - Paul Buggy, Mossy

Thomastown - Stephen Donnelly

Bennettsbridge - Timmy Kelly, Sean Morrissey, Liam Blanchfield

Glenmore - Cathal Beirne

GBC - Sean Ryan

St Martins - Sean Hunt

Went to three matches over the weekend:OLG and Clara-Olg looked very impressive moved the ball well and got some nice scores, Wall and Hogan done a lot of damage in the full forward line. Although they never looked like winning the game Clara had a good spirit about them and never gave up.

Thomastown and Village:I thought Thomastown fully deserved their win and I think they would've won even without the sending offs, John Donnelly was class,Village look a bit limited, be interesting to see how Thomastown get on for the rest of the year.

Bennetsbridge and Glenmore :Disappointing game purley because Glenmore were very poor they were missing four or five of their better players to be fair.Bridge look very good and could be a dark horse for the championship this year,they were very unlucky not to get to the final last year.

On a side note I thought the refereeing in the three games was very good.And the spreading out of the times of matches gives people a good opportunity to take in a few more matches.

I thought Jordan Molloy and Luke Hogan did well for OLG. Luke not afraid to take his man on. Paul Cody for Clara. John Donnely Thomastown. No one stood out for me in Vegas Comer match, Comer in particular were poor.

I couldn’t get any info on Killian. Congratulations to Fionan.

I don’t know how people think that Bergin is a better manager than Dowling, Bergin has 6 years on the job between manager and selector. No matter what people say Mark Dowling was certainly hampered in the two years he was manager, with Billy Drennan taken the first year and Killian Doyle the second year. Personally i wouldn’t have either of them , but I would have Dowling ahead of Bergin anyday of the week.

I agree totally that Mark Dowling was hampered by circumstances. So why not give him another year?