Kilkenny GAA Thread

Think if we can improve our delivery into the forwards and play with passion we could win this evening handy enough Wexford no great shakes though they will rise their game against us.

Just to add a bit of positivity for a change. I’ve a nephew on the underage KK squads. They got called into an open night last week with a talk from Michael fennely. About 300 kids and same again with parents, in for a 2 hour talk and they found it brilliant.
They then came away with a very comprehensive booklet showing the 5 man management team of the 9 squads from 14 to Celtic challenge. There is also a 10 person “coaching support” group separate from management.

There’s lots in the booklet about attitude and culture around KK teams. They have the next few months mapped out for the teams. Also a section for businesses to sponsor pages in the booklet. The whole thing is sponsored by Clunetech, and looks to have their professional stamp all over it.
Nothing that amazing about it really, but if you didn’t have someone involved with the team you might be unaware of the good work going on. To me, it looks well thought out and put together.
There’s plenty to complain about in KK at the minute, but it’s not all doom and gloom.

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What do you think at half time @forchange 🤔

I don't think we've been very good here at all to be honest. Forwards have been fairly poor other than their tackling. 2nd half has been terrible

Why oh why, after losing pretty much every lash-it-long puck out in the last 15 minutes, are we persisting with lash-it-long puck outs?

We have been absolutely septic in the second half.

Similar to the semi final last year, disappointing, kilkenny should have buried them in the second half.

I know Wexford were awful the first half and had a very young side out

But i thought our tackling aggression and use of the ball was good we even seem to be getting better at throwing the ball like other counties

At least we started todays game better unlike the last 2

The second half is baffling Wexford were always going to play better but once the pushed up abit we went back to the long ball stopped working it across the back and short

It still seems we don’t trust the short game when the pressure comes on

Molloy Kenny Blanchfield and murphy along with Carey were probably the stand outs

Going off tonight I think it will be Kenny and one of molloy or Mac Donald at mf for the championship

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Poor oil Billy Ryan never seems to get any luck. Had that shot been a quarter of an inch lower, it would have been the goal of the year. Pulled it down out of the air and then top corner crossbar from 20 yards.

Wexford will have a decent panel come championship now because their young lads are after getting serious game time in this league albeit they will probably be relegated.

Kilkenny have a 37 year old TJ Reid to come back, Adrian Mullen and John Donnelly.

Will Lyng go with Tallis or Murphy for Leinster Championship?

The number 7 position seems to be between Deegan, Hammond and Mackessy, Deegan was very poor tonight.

Kilkenny were very good in the 1st half tonight, very aggressive, and huge work rate. Looked like a reaction to the Galway loss. We should have been 20+ points ahead at half time only for some butchered goal chances.

Opposite happened 2nd half, Rossiter clearly told a few home truths at half time and in fairness their work rate and aggression 2nd half was off the charts. Aided by a very lenient and sympathetic referee…

Kilkenny had the match won so understandably dropped their standards slightly, and the result was a very underwhelming 2nd half.

I wouldn't be getting too excited either way really. It's still early February, and every team is in the middle of heavy training. You'd like to see more new lads putting their hands up, but Shane Murphy is a positive, and I thought Stephen Donnelly showed plenty in the 1st half, especially composure wise. Shine is worth persevering with I believe, great wrists, maybe inside forward is not his thing, he might be more productive in space. Deegan form is worrying and you'd wonder what the value is playing him game after game at this time of the year. We know what he has, and we know what he doesn't have. Cian Kenny could work really well at 11 in Championship, there's fair stuff in him.

Tricky one to sum up as Wexford were so poor in the 1st half but improved somewhat in the 2nd albeit never really looked like coming close to us.

On the positive side I thought our backline bar Deegan did well for most of the game. Shane Murphy had a good performance which was a plus and Mikey Butler while not perfect was definitely in better form than recently. Cian Kenny had a good first half and hit some good scores, for a good running game hes crucial. Billy Ryan and Mossy Keoghan were grand bar Billy butchering a goal chance in the 1st half. Cody was a mixed bag, some good play and he definitely made better runs than he usually did but I don't think he's great on frees and he missed one or two of them that he should have scored. Molloy had a fine 1st half but was overran in the 2nd.

The negatives are definitely the performance of Shine and Stephen Donnelly. Donnelly was involved in one of the goals but both of them did nothing apart from that. They also both looked extremely slow and were outpaced by the Wexford backline which isn't a good sign. Doyle didn't do much and he didn't exactly use what ball he got well. Tallis looks shaky under the dropping ball and his puckouts should have been better. He went long too often in the 2nd half when we were losing the puckouts. Deegan was poor defensively and his use of the ball was even worse. None of the subs made a positive impact bar Drennan scoring the last point and when we were lacking pace I don't understand why Ger Dunne wasn't brought on.

Wexford will have the likes of Chin and the Recks back for the championship but there was still a lot of their Championship team out tonight. They will be better but I don't think there is anything to hugely fear from them. We do need to improve but there's still a good few matches to go before the championship.

Think some are a bit too harsh on Stephen Donnelly considering his 1st game this year and 1st ever start in a senior jersey, showed very well in 1st half set up Mossy's 1st goal and on another day could easily have scored 1-1. Got little to no ball in 2nd half. Certainly well worth another look in my opinion, has a bit of class that some our backup forwards are lacking.

All backs bar unfortunately Deegan played well, i agree with others we don't need to be playing him every game looks like a lad who needs a break as we know what he offers us. Cian Kenny excellent once again. I felt Wexford got a lot of soft frees in 2nd half too.

It's like nobody on here has ever seen a league game where the stronger team gets off to a big lead followed by the team who works harder in the second half reigning that lead in and that there is huge surprise that a forward line featuring 4 corner forwards and two others whose game is about getting on breaks around the middle could possibly lose its shape.