Kilkenny GAA Thread

Whoever doesn’t win tomorrow can see them going up next year. Conahy were a junior standard team in intermediate (along with blacks and whites) and can’t see with the age profile of the team them bouncing back.

Did Jack Doyle take part in world handball championships? Been a busy week for him if he has

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I find it hard to believe that Gearoid Hegarty was better than John Donnelly this year.

A big two fingers up to Leinster hurling with that All Star selection in my view.

Limerick got to a semi final, the same as Kilkenny yet they are deemed to have 4 All stars.

Didn’t think Eoin Downey was any better than Huw Lawlor either.

Hea

Heard on radio he has a handball match tomorrow at 10am with the co final at 2 30!! I know nothing about handball so have no idea the leigth of a match.

Nervy morning for windgap management

unless KK swept the boards in all competitions they can expect nothing, that’s the way it always was.

Thanks for that. It’s a very demanding game, lots of short sprinting and continuous movement, far from ideal for the body to be playing a match later.

A famous ex hurler once said if you were fit enough for three games of handball (first player to win two games wins the match) you were fit enough to play any sport.

yep Richie Power was deemed not good enough?

Windgap man here, I think freshford are favourites. We beat them in the league final but they were missing a few. Thomastown winning last weekend would give any team hope of overcoming the favourite tho.

Best of luck to Windgap today, they've a former Realt dearg man in the backroom!

Very disappointing match and looked like a junior match for a lot of it. Lot of players on both teams don't look fit. Both sets of forwards were average I thought. All 3 goals came with an element of luck. The difference with Thomastown and Windgap is that Thomastown have a lot of younger players coming on every year strengthening the team. This Windgap team look past it compared to performances the last 4/5 years. If they do eventually go up the best years will be behind them unfortunately.

Windgap did all the hurling in the first half so must have been dejected to be only level at half time. Counted 6 wides from frees. Landy seemed to disappear after the wides. That's the trouble when there's so much talk about a player in the media.

Lachtaíns have some nice hurlers. Cathal hickey wing back caught the eye. Brian Kennedy outstanding. Purcell was causing havoc at full forward, he's so big and bulky I'm not sure how mobile he is. Didn't happen at all for Jack Doyle today.

Game was advertised to be on clubber but wasn't available when i went to watch it. Any idea why that was?

The all-stars had representation from three of the four semi-finalists though, I’m not saying we definitely deserved one but it’s still a bit unusual.

Thas all true and as I said I don’t necessarily think we were hard done by but I can’t remember the last time provincial champions weren’t represented and we really should have beaten Clare in the semis in my opinion so we weren’t that far off . I wasn’t trying to take away from anyone that won an all -star at all if that’s how you picked it up.

Fair enough. I saw some bitterness around in relation to the awards and thought you were going down that road. It was certainly an odd one with Limerick getting more than the usual for a provincial/semifinal team.