Kilkenny GAA Thread

Would this leave any time for Gaelic football to be played though?

I'm joking of course, literally none of us in Kilkenny give a rats ass about football.

I don’t know who to start on first Village or JJ we will talk later busy at the moment.

Thanks for reply’s. I get why at first one would say no and yes I don’t think it should be every year maybe every fifth year.so tullogher went up last year and are absolutely flying it. Arguably there was nothing between Tullogher, Freahford and Windgap last two years. Everyone knows how hard it is to get out of junior and any team that goes down it takes a long time to get back out. I reckon if the likes of carrick shock or conaghy had to play the losers of junior final they would be in trouble. Maybe that would be an interesting way of doing it. Obviously intermediate clubs are going to hate this but they are getting to stay intermediate and play at a higher level when the teams coming up could potentially flourish in intermediate like Tullogher

There’s a lot of ifs in your suggested changes every team that wins a grade in Kilkenny usually gets a run in Leinster and goes close to winning an all Ireland and tend to get a savage bounce for 18 months to a year as the team get to stay together train longer and there panel and community and more together and there’s greater buy in from everyone as well as the added fitness benefits

That’s why the likes of thomastown and tullougher are flying and look better than other teams

They usually comfortably stay up in the new grade the first few years and go deep in the championship but then there’s a drop off after that and they find there level

It’s very rare you see and team go up and come straight back down anymore

Every team is in there grade on merit you can’t just put a team up because you think they might beat a team at the bottom of the higher grade

If the likes of freshford or windgap want to be in intermediate they have to get to a final and win it

That’s a brutal comment coming from a hurling man. Cut off that left hand you don’t deserve to have it anymore 😀.

Thanks for engaging Mr bond. Thomastown were a team stuck in intermediate and couldn’t get out for years also. They would have been capable of hurling senior last couple of years. I would agree there is a bounce but ya need to have hurlers coming through to bed in at a higher level.

Blacks and whites got out scraped of junior (hit form at right time) but didn’t have the population of hurlers coming through.

But if you do have a few you will stay up for years as only one will drop even if there is better teams in junior.

Well IMO the top teams in junior are more than capable of mixing with the intermediates but it’s just an opinion and the way the gaa works I doubt things will change anyway.

Now I’ll probably be ate again but sure here it goes.I was out in Danesfort last night for the U14 Boro v Loughs, no charge on the gate. I really think there should be, if not for the host club well then the two participants? I’m just of the opinion there shouldn’t be no free entry like we got great entertainment there for over an hour last night. This is just an opinion.

Well spurs that’s the other side of it, as I said it’s just an opinion but there was a lot more than parents there last night.Maybe just charge for the finals then. Do you think many parents would object, they could spend money on worse.

No way should we be charging anyone for juvenile games other than the finals. We need to encourage people to come watch those games, not discourage them. They are the potential volunteers of the future.

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I've seen both the Village and Shamrocks a few times now and I'd be giving a slight nod to the Village. Just think they were in the tougher group and these games will stand to them. Just feel the Shamrocks are getting lads back a lot later than usual and some are not at 100%.

As previous poster mentioned, Shamrocks will probably make a fool out of me yet. Should be a good game

Walsh cup gone? This only demeans the league. I for one loved the Walsh cup competition and looked forward to the first day out after the Christmas picking out contenders to make it onto the team. When are they going to blood players now if relegation is a real threat in the league.

ye Billy but what’s the purpose,usually they change what they shouldn’t change and don’t change what they should.

Apologies, only seeing this now, sorry to drag it up again.
The 2 lads have assisted clubs in previous years. Harney - Dunhill, Kirwan - Clonea. Both wanted to assist Clonea this year. As you point out the board had made it clear last year that it would not be permitted this year. Last year was considered an exception as the new club was formed late in the day and would have left Dunhill in an even worse position than they ended up finding themselves.

Both could probably have gotten transfers through to Clonea I would imagine, but never went this route.

I actually think the board did well to hold their ground on this one in the face of a fair bit of public pressure. The new club had to be backed IMO or it will never get off the ground.

Village v Shamrocks is not on Clubber, its the TG4 game Sunday