Kilkenny GAA Thread

Marty Murphy sidelined with a hamstring injury according to a Tullogher supporter yesterday. Killian Doyle also worthy of another look ,doing very well in Fitzgibbon.

Is Owen wall on the panel? Would have thought he'd get a chance. He's faster than any of our forwards. Jordan Molloy another player who didn't play yesterday. Shane Murphy deserves a run of games. A rest could do butler good, not happening for him at the moment.

In 2017 2 adults and 2 u16s cost €24 for a league game with the early bird option, now the cost would be €50. Aswel as not being able to pay on the gate Ticketmaster is an awful set up for anyone not tech savvy. If they don't want to accept cash there should be at least a pay with card option at the stiles.

Intercounty games is a nationwide thing and clubs it's county by county but I'd imagine the majority of counties are ticket only, for club games in Wexford it's ticket only but they introduced a card option last year just in Wexford Park not the other venues.

All the above are factors but let's not ignore the fact that Kilkenny does not have a large match going base for a county that "lives and breathes" hurling. We just don't bring numbers to games.

I include myself in that. I didn't go to Ennis and I'm unlikely to go to Cork. I might go to Wexford.

I find the Kilkenny fanbase unusual in that the attendances at our club matches are very good for the size of the county and the league home attendances are usually alright. But our championship crowds are very poor (think it was 2,500 at last year's Antrim match in Nowlan Park) and we don't travel at all bar the Final when we're usually outnumbered by a fair amount.

Think chin will start saturday evening we have targeted this game along way out and need the points.To be honest think we have 2much for ye at present and im expecting a good win.

Disappointing result on Sunday but I thought we looked very leggy, I wonder was there a hard week's training done, there touch and energy looked way off the previous week. We were very poor in the middle on Sunday, the first half especially, but once we got the goal to go ahead we should have kicked on but I don't think we scored after the goal. It's early in the year so hard to read too much into things but I thought Deegan and Butler looked like they needed a rest, they've played a massive amount of hurling between club and county and it looks to be catching up with them, a break won't do them any harm. The worrying thing at the minute is that there are no new forwards putting their hand up to claim a place, hopefully over the next few weeks a few more forwards will step up and stake a claim. On the positive side, I thought Moylan did well after a shaky start and looks to have something about him, Shane Murphy was excellent when introduced and looks like he will be pushing hard for a spot on the team come championship. I thought Shine did well when introduced and looked dangerous, I think he is well worth another look. Does anyone know how much longer Stephen Donnelly is out for?

Why are everyone so all in on Dublin? I'm not saying they won't make top 3 but wouldn't put them more likely than Galway or Wexford, I'd see them a similar enough level to both. Agree on Tom Mullally, considering their player pool what Carlow have done the last decade or so is extraordinary.

A poster here mentioned the last 12 All Ireland minor winning teams not having any players that have won a senior medal. On the surface this seems extraordinary, but not when you consider two things. Galway have won 5 minors in that time, and we go years and years without winning a senior, so that's almost half of the minor winners in 12 years. Also, Limerick have won 5 seniors in that time, and they hadn't won a minor (although they had a few u21 titles). That's almost half of the senior winners in the 12 years. Another takeaway from the stat, is that winning minors really doesn't mean much for later senior success, as I know too well.

They have been in the set up a year or two already, and didn't really pull up any trees, but there might be something to build on now. It's now that the likes of them really need to step up. Its sink or swim now. I noticed Jackie praise Lee for that diagonal ball in his own half the last day. He said it was brave, and it was, but it was brave because it was risky. Had that not gone well, it would have looked like a very stupid option to take.

For Kilkenny of course we had hoped to have full points after the first 3 games but cant do anything about the galway game now.So exspecting a big performance Saturday evening.

well at least your honest JJ. I go religiously to most matches and to tell you the truth it galls me to hear all the experts who could tell you everything about the game and never go to league matches and might take in an odd championship final if they get the best tickets. I’m sure one or two posters here would fall in to this category. All these these young lads can’t hear your support from the comfort of your living rooms. I know I’ll probably be savaged over this but the truth hurts sometimes.

Personally these days I see every Wexford/ Dublin game as a 50/50 weather it's Parnell, Croker or Wexford Park, in the 5 round robin games the record is 2 draws, 2 Dublin wins by 1 pt and 2 pts and 1 Wexford win by 2 points which in totality speaks volumes, I don't think Dublin, Galway or Wexford can target specific games we have to go all out every day, we've been stung plenty of times the last 3 years between Antrim and Westmeath as did Dublin vs Laois in 2019. They might get a bounce from the Na Fianna success but we heard the same when Mattie Kenny won with Cuala and took over but no major success materialised there.

The same poster said that Jake Morris and Mark Kehoe (I think) were on the panel for that 19 Tipp team, but didn't play.