Kilkenny GAA Thread

A bad day.

I just hope the three deserved red cards won’t be used as an excuse to cover that in general, once again, we were far behind the opposition in terms of first touch, S&C, shooting from distance, forward movement and ball forward. When it was a contest before it became farce, Tipp were toying with us.

A word needs to be had with the three lads sent off, every one of them was avoidable and were simply down to acting the gurrier. The Tipp sending off wouldn’t have have been a red either only for a theatrical dive, if that’s our behaviour then Lyng needs to have words.

A bad day.

Ah come on, you could argue they were all avoidable but Jordan Molloy was very unlucky in my opinon,i t was an attempt at a hook that went slightly wrong and there wasn't much in Careys either, hardly acting the gurrier . Blanchfield's was stupid alright but not the worst offence I've seen either. I didn't like Kenny going down so easily but I think most of todays red cards were down to the incident in the Galway-Limerick game last night.

It ruined the game anyway and its impossible to analyse either teams performance properly really.

Tipp could have, should have annihilated us today in the first 10 mins.but dropped the ball or did something stupid everytime. Posters are right and for once we all agree Lyng and his team have to go as well as the county board who insisted on picking him for another year despite no progress being made in the previous two years.I’m absolutely disgusted with the whole set up, we’ll talk later.

Too easy say you can't analyse that game because of the reds. Blown off the field in the first half. Puck outs, both defending and on our own were a shambles. No tracking of off the ball runners, no movement inside, no creativity and either no plan or a group of players who are not clear on the plan.

Year 3 and it's simply not good enough.

It's not all on management as the players are actually very very poor across the field and they seem incapable of thinking on the fly but ultimately the buck stops with Lyng and it's worse we're getting

From an outsider (Tipp), I wouldn't just dismiss todays game due to the 4 red cards, yes the 2nd half was a total write off as Tipp didn't know what to do with the ball and Kk had to go ultra defensive, but focus on the 1st half.

Every team can have an off day, but Kk style of play was long ball in, and at that didn't put their best high fielder TJ Reid on the edge of the square vs a very green full back line.

In contrast Tipp with 2 new players in the full forward line played in diagonal balls as they know it suits their personnel better. Kk took an age to score from play. The players may not be there, but tactically they were outdone.

sorry James everything I have said is fact

Cody left Kilkenny hurling in a terrible state

Even after your own comments you question lyng

Molloy done ok against cork just ok today he not so good is he a county midfielder I don’t think so

Reading other comments everyone is questioning the tactics and the manager and his use off Doyle told me he not good enough

The funny thing is this question off the s/c this is only a excuse rather than say some off our players not good enough

If the kerry man is good enough put him in centre back his position and see how he does

Just because what I have said is fact and you don’t like it doesn’t mean I am bitter

I have as much love for hurling as any kilkenny man the biggest problem with kilkenny hurling is people pride like yours can’t accept we are way off the top he have only being hanging around because Leinster hurling so bad

People need to realise when we drew with Carlow in the championship showed where we are

You talk about disrespecting players

Look at the disrespect you should towards one off the greatest off all time in playing and management

I played hurling against Ollie he was one off the greatest in every way

All I pinted out was the way he brought kilkenny hurling from no place to all Ireland champions

Paddy Buggy resigned as chairman because he could not see kilkenny win all Ireland he said that in a interview compare that where lyng has brought use he got job from county board with at least 5 people with better cv

Agree with a lot of the comments on here. First half was shockingly bad. Someone said chasing shadows which is accurate. Tipp had options with every attack and were finding a free man at will. We were way off our man. Huw Lawlors stock went up by virtue of his absence. You have to wonder what the instructions are in terms of feeding the forwards. For example Deegan received a short pass in front of us in the first half and had a simple pass to Mossy who had acres of space and was looking for the pass. Instead Deegan hits a diagonal ball high in the air. TJ actually won the ball but it was 100% the wrong option from Deegan.

The referee definitely lost the plot with the red cards but we were second best all day.

Clare are getting an even bigger beating off Cork so presumably that means relegation is avoided?

1-5 from play. Mossy and Dunne the only scorers from play. Only 7 wides from play and 2 short so in 70+ minutes of hurling we took 15 shots. 15.

I think if Wexford beat Limerick, Clare beat Tipp and Limerick beat Kilkenny it will go to points difference

It’s not as if Lyng has been handed some golden generation and has mishandled it. He mined an u20 with what turns out to be a very average group. None of those players have stepped up, even in clubs. I’m minded of Enda McEvoys comments to the effect that he wouldn’t believe we’ll win an AI until he sees an exciting underage team come through together.

Folks taking today's league game far too seriously. Tipp have been playing championship pace hurling in the NHL under Cahill for the past 3 years; yet were burned out in April & May 2023 & 24. This experienced Kilkenny team, Galway & now Clare don't bother peaking until early June. The last few years. Cork look great this NHL but they haven't managed more than 3 great performances in succession for a long time. Limerick are the only team who maintain a high standard every day.

I expect this Kilkenny team will get to a Leinster final and even an AI semi. But they are good enough to compete in an AI final unless the opposition have an off day.

It's important for us fans to support the team, mgr & selectors. They showed enough fight today despite their "usual stage of training program", to give me hope that we may win Leinster and will have a few high quality players showing off the best of Kilkenny skills. TJ and John D showed some lovely touches when their dander was up Huw Lalor adds another dimension to our defense.

I agree with a lot of that but the problem is we have not been good enough with this team the last 4/5 years and badly need 4/5 new faces to freshen us up and maybe make us contenders. We are lucky we can coast through Leinster and hopefully make the semi final again.

The fight only really appeared when we went down to 12 men.

Stupid and undisciplined from the 3 lads getting reds but it was only after that we started hunting opposition. Huw missed badly but we don't have enough forwards that can run on to a ball and make it stick. Surely Owen Wall deserved 15 minutes today. Marty Murphy still out. Not sure what frame of mind Cody and mullen will have on their return. Don't know what the story with Tom phelan is either.

I dont agree with giving a forward a start and then dropping him for 2 matches only to give him another start. Stick with the new lads for 4 or 5 matches and see what they can do.

Waterford are not so bad either. They would be in a Leinster final at least on our side. We are blessed we can start building from the Leinster championship. Munster do not have that luxury

what people think Tipp are getting out of Munster? Tipp fans think they are at least 12 months away from that scenario.