Kilkenny GAA Thread

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That's a matter of organisation, I know both the Village and OLG had slightly larger figures for their U6's this year, cause that the level I'm involved at now.

I will do, I'll try update them this evening or tomorrow evening when I have them done I'll throw them up here.

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Not sure how a fourth club would work in the city but something has to be done with the developments at Margaretsfield, Nyne Park, Breagagh Valley and the Tullaroan Road only skewing population figures further. One option would be to change the boundaries of the likes of Tullaroan, GB, Conahy, Martin's, Clara, Bennettsbridge, Danesfort, Threecastles so that they extend further towards the city. Otherwise, you are only going to have the three city teams at Roinn A underage and loads of city lads giving up the game in their early twenties.

sorry riding should have been ridiculing although riding might be apt also.

Like the boro Dublin have massive potential but fail to live up to expectations year after year

Dublin get a new manager in there’s always talk about how there going to make the break through or could be dangerous and they fall flat no manager has got a tune out of them since daly

Is that not similar to the boro

I don’t like ridiculing any club but it’s annoys me to see a club of the boros size under performing so much and not providing any hurlers for the kk senior team

I’m not sure why you feel I need to identify my club you have and that’s great but I don’t need to

All I ll say is I come from a club who barely have 1 of each underage team right up to the top level adult team who also struggle for numbers

That’s only rubbish no rules were broken etc etc

It was wrong and it made a mockery of the competition that’s not why yee had 2 u20 teams so a stunt like that could be pulled

If the boro went away and actually won another senior title instead of glorifying underage titles lads would stop talking about them

The ring road would be a great cut off point.

Obviously anyone who's involved would stay put with their own club, but any up and coming would go the new club.

Something would have to be done for the Village though given the location of their complex.

Maybe the boro should look at getting trigger and his broom in over the seniors next year they might actually win something instead of just talking about winning something 🤣🤣

Watch this space!!

I don’t like ridiculing clubs BUT I am going to do so now your like the rest I’m a republican but! Anyway all the Boro lads are as disappointed as anyone else is, it’s just that we’ll have to wait and see what else can we do. People seem to forget the Trojan work the Boro did to get the club to where it is today in two parishes dominated by soccer, where you were nothing in school if you played hurling. St. Mary’s parish is landlocked with a very small population. All the shopkeepers moved to the village in the 70s. We hadn’t the breeding ground that the two other city teams had and as soon as that side of the city started developing everyone is crying foul. Now Mr. Bond you might consider joining our management team since you seem to know **** everything or maybe you might give us a seminar in where we are going wrong and we’ll look after you in Hacketts bar.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Gave up on the second half so maybe it improved but considering 5 of the 6 defenders were from KK it was fairly grim viewing in the first half. Playing with a sweeper and they still got pulled all over the place and couldn't lay a glove on the UL forwards. Same issue as with all KK defenders with the ball from the half back line consistently landing just inside the 45 instead of the 21 meaning Coughlan and the UL half back line were always on top of the inside forward on the breaks. Beirne got on a lot of ball and ran strong but end product wasn't up to much.

The reality is there is a massive talent gap between the best youngsters in Munster and the best in Leinster. The only mitigating factor is the age profile of that DCU team looked to be primarily lads in 2nd and 3rd year in college whereas maybe the main lads in UL are older but I'm not sure if that's the reality.

Ah that's a bit harsh JJ.That's the weakest DCU squad in a decade yet got to final and only played semi on Monday, while UL were stacked with Limerick team members and panellists. Comparison between likes of Cathal O' Neill and Coughlin and English etc versus lads who barely made Kilkenny U20s is not comparing like with like.

UL are streets ahead of field this year with not much between the rest UCG, DCU, Maynooth and UCC probably next closest. SETU ok but Carlow gone to the dogs.

UL looked nearly 2 years a man older and better conditioned, Kilkenny lads played well, 2 Glenmore lads the pick of the bunch, but agree nothing to get too excited about and also agree conditioning and hurling of 20-23 year old Munster players looks superior. Coughlin interviewed at end, could easily compare physically with any of Ireland's back rowers.

Very poor lookout for Dublin hurling that only 2-3 reps on DCU and none of them impressed. Eoghan O' Donnell going to footballers is a potential death knell for Dublin senior team. If they cant hold on to the likes of him, then what hope is there and what message does it say to the rest when your talisman and captain **** off to a sport he barely plays.

I already outlined my clubs situation I don’t need to tell you what club I’m from

Im a kk hurling supporter like everyone else on here

Frankly your obsession with wanting to know what club people are from is strange nobody else on here feels the need to be asking people to name there club

My points are still valid just because you don’t agree there’s no need to get up on your high horse

Your might have a lot of posts on here but your not a moderator as much as you like to think you are

The FAI are trying to implement Calendar Soccer but my understanding is that it's up to each League to decide whether to change or not. The Kilkenny & District League voted overwhelmingly last Monday night to keep the status quo, only three clubs voted to play Calendar Soccer.

Some leagues are already playing Calendar Soccer, like Waterford and Kildare - Kilkenny and Carlow have already rejected it. And on that vote Kilkenny have a strong mandate to continue to resist it. I'd imagine the country clubs are all too aware that it would create more problems for them than it would solve, as many of them would struggle to field a team in the event of an inevitable fixture clash with GAA.