Kilkenny GAA Thread

Anyone know why the price of a program went up €1 in 7 days on the weekend ?

Yes I was told due to Junior Section B Championship teams were listed, plus league tables and 2024 Championship knockout dates for for your Diary.

That makes sense thought it was just inflation 🤣🤣

Boro should be beating a manager less Graigue Balycallan. Ballyhale should have to much for a young Village team. Glenmore to much fire power for Comer. Bennettsbridge probably shade it v Clara. Intermediate id fancy, Carrickshock, St Martins, Dunamaggin and the Rower

Glenmore v Comer. Glenmore probably missing Eoin Murphy but should have enough to beat Comer who are struggling in the forwards. Still will be nervous

Village v Shamrocks. The latter have timed their run in the past, losing matches in the league phase while resting players and then going on to win the championship. I think this year is different. Too many of their players have very little game time, Eoin Cody is a doubt, not sure about Adrian Mullen. Village coming off a win against Glenmore. Their back line has been leaking goals but I take them to win.

Ballycallan v Dicksboro. The latter are missing Tom Kenny amd Andy Gaffney but still look solid enough. I don't think Ballycallan are playing as well as last year when Tommy Ronan was on fire. Dicksboro to win by a few points.

Bridge v Clara. Bridge disappointing against Tullaroan. If Liam Blanch is kept quiet they can struggle. Still their approach play is good. Paul Cody has being doing well for Clara, Liam Ryan usually scores a few points but the Bridge look a better balanced team and should prevail in a tight match

Apparently he informed the players Sunday morning he was stepping down. Something to do with the quick turnaround from league to the 1st round of the championship, the players did not take the best recovery methods available to them in the quick turnaround

Richie O Neill in I think on a caretaker basis

Pity he didn't tell them before last weekend 🙄👌

In fairness from the outside, he looks to have done a very good job playing a decent brand.

Niall Shortall is another player to look out for, but we’ll have to wait and see on Sunday evening it’s hard to know with the Shamrocks what way they will turn up but they seem to have a strong enough team out, provided they are all fit. I also noticed Colin Fennelly is on the panel, tells you a lot about rumours.

ye but the rumour at the time was he was finished.

just at the U16 county semi final. The Boro have 44 on the panel, John Lockes have 26.

Bennettsbridge got out of jail against Clara winning by 16 pts to 14. Clara had the advantage of a tricky diagonal wind in the first half and struck their first 5 shots over the bar to lead by 5 points aftef 5 minutes. Still they only led by 8 pts by 5 at half time. They still led by 4 with 10 minutes to go. 3 long range scores by David Blanchfield helped the Bridge to equalize after 31 minutes and they added another 2 to scrape through. Clara very unlucky, Bridge will have to improve hugely to progress any further.

Not as windy at Kells Road for Comer V Glenmore

Comer... Some men

Glenmore. Nightmare.

Never say die 👌