Kilkenny GAA Thread

what do we make of KK today, if we lose, we’re beaten by a depleated LK team and if we win we beat a depleted LK team.now don’t get me wrong I would be very happy with a win it would see us safe and maybe we could go on from that?I didn’t think Cork were wonderful last night they let a nice little lead go just before halftime. Did any notice nearly everytime they roll rise the ball and never jab lift it maybe it’s the conditions I don’t know?

Game is off

re fixed for st. Patrick’s weekend I think

has to be paddys weekend as its only weekend limerick free

Did the referee make the call or the Kilkenny county board ?

last time I was in limerick the pitch was like a carpet. Give croker a run for its money. Same for cork. Thurles not so much but would go ahead today if it was there

No excuse for kilkenny not to have a pitch up to the same standard as Cork, it would of been a terrible spectacle if it went ahead today.

out in the dump is the only place really, which is a huge indictment of the Co Board.

We are miles behind other counties in terms of facilities. It should be a huge source of embarrassment to the various county board officials over the past 20 years (not that they varied too much), that we are reliant on neighbouring counties like Carlow and Waterford to facilitate some of our inter county squads. It's absolutely no coincidence that we have falling behind in hurling terms also at underage level during that period.

Limerick and Cork are the only total stadium redevelopments I can think of in the 21st century and both went all out on modern pitches/drainage during redevelopment.

This is just an educated guess going by feel but the rest of the big hurling pitches just feel like an old mud field (exaggerating a little)

Portloaise unplayable today too as are the Fenagh pitches. It’s not just Kilkenny. The amount of rain that fell Thursday night and last night was unnatural

I bet ye Lyon’s still got paid.

Jaysus Chaz you have to stop calling it “the dump”

sorry 😂. Just frustrated at what a missed opportunity it was to do a proper development somewhere more suitable, short cuts by Co board as usual when our seniors were so successful. Only built on a gym there last year….. it's used for County Finals and there's one toilet out there. The utter incompetence in planning was just breathtaking, and that applies to our underage structures also which we are still trying to fix.

Big win today for Wexford considering Clare had a number of starters back

Regarding pitch in Nowlan Park, the amount of rain that fell over the last few days I'm not surprised. In general though the top of the surface seems to be a lot looser than let's say 5/6 years ago when it was winning awards as best pitch in country. It looks to me that root structure is not as good as what it used to be.

Leinster could be very interesting this year with Offaly's young guns showing up well so far, Antrim look in big bother.