The first ever year that no team from the Leinster hurling championship got an All Star too. Only Louth saved the province across the 2 codes.
unless KK swept the boards in all competitions they can expect nothing, that’s the way it always was.
Hegarty had an excellent year, if not the semi final. Yes Donnelly probably unlucky but was quieter in last 2 or 3 matches. Cian Kenny bit unlucky too but I don't think the players lose any sleep over the all stars although there's some nice story's tonight like louth winning their 2nd ever all star & Paul conroy winning poty.
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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
Just discovered its the first year since the All Stars began that neither Kilkenny, Kerry or Dublin won an award.
Mental
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.
Wasn't Harry Shine on the Kilkenny panel this year, pretty sure he was a sub for the Leinster final anyway
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No All star for Kilkenny, it was a poor season in all fairness.
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
Cheers KK36, quite a few have achieved this
Thanks marooned, that era is before my time!. I will be shouting for Freshford as my Dad used to play with them as a youngster.
first of all I would go with Freshford for the junior and surely the shamrocks have them all between 74,and78.
Spurs I just can’t figure you out.
Some of the Dunamaggin lads from the mid 90s/early 00s would have them too I'd say. Muckalee lads from 78-84 too. I'm sure there's more
The junior Co final tomorrow is a very interesting game. Both of the beaten finalists last 2 years so both will be desperate to win. Windgap probably under more pressure after losing the final to b& whites 2 years ago when they were hot favourites and the semi to lachtaíns last year.
St lachtaíns were lucky to beat galmoy thanks to James Maher who is going very well in the forwards. With Darren brennan in goal, and Brian Kennedy at 6 they have a good spine. Windgap have very strong forwards with Emmet landy the main man and Jack Doyle and James power getting 3 or 4 points a game. Purcell started full forward the last day. Wouldn't surprise me if this finished in a draw, but windgap would be my pick if I had to call it
Any comment/reply to your little tirade?
Thomastown U21’s v Ballycallan on Sunday if Thomastown win they play the village Friday night in Muckalee, that’s a short turnaround?
Back to back county champions,they deserve a shot..
Delighted to hear that
Heard a number of Threecastles players have been called in.
Anyone hear of who was called in
Exactly. Hardly an off the wall call to say o loughlins we're going to win. Just saying they'd win by 8 or 9 seemed a bit over the top.
Like you said the thomastown players took it in good spirit and so did scally. I don't know why people get annoyed at pundits making predictions. It's only a pastime after all.
Interesting to see how many thomastown lads get called in with kilkenny apart from the 3 or 4 who were there last year. Of course lot depends on how far they go in the all Ireland club.
Tucker, Richard o Hara and Dylan Waugh were also involved in all three, possibly Davey Pender also. Someone said Andy Comerford achieved it but don't know if that is the case.
Someone might be able to correct me but did Jonjo Farrell create a bit of history by winning a clean sweep of Junior, Intermediate and now Senior County medals?
I was gonna say "typical Boro type response" ….
Isnt that right Ted ……
On the match coverage and coverage in general, who looks after the social media for the county board? Shocking coverage of the final on Sunday, no score updates, just a couple of clubber retweets on twitter. Many other counties would have score and scorer updates as they happen, just thought it was very poor.
In fairness to both KCLR and CRKC they have given great coverage and I would say they have made the championships very enjoyable. I would actually give credit to Scally for keeping the podcast going.
As a thomastown man I wouldn't have an issue with the prediction of OLG winning by 8, I thought he made a mistake picking the combined team and going 11 to 4 or 12 to 3 OLG to ttown players or whatever it was. There is two aspects to that for me, 1 is that he put his own head on the block and it backfired and was going to be disrespectful to team who deserved to be in a final. The other is it did build it up for us before the match and he dealt with it well yesterday in the podcast and the banter was good so fair play to him for that.
The players had a good craic with it and sowed it in to him and he sucked it up and laughed it off. Shouldn't be making it personal anyway for sure.
Hopefully we can keep Noel Doherty his level of detail and the standards and structure he has bit in place have changed a whole club who were known as bottlers 18 months ago. He deserves every credit and the way he has been treated by the county board has been extremely poor.
I am not sure Noel will be given much influence in with Kilkenny and if he doesn't it will be a waste of time. This feels like we need a freshening of players, structure and coaching. Please god he can do both jobs next year.
In fairness the local radio stations give great coverage of the club games compared to some counties. You could have listened to 5 or 6 matches most weekends from senior down to junior. Minor, u16 and 14 finals were also broadcast.
I don't agree with a lot of what they say either, very biased for and against certain clubs and lot of simple details wrong, but it's good to hear clubs getting coverage.
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