Kilkenny GAA Thread

Intermediate League Championship draw:

Group A

St. Martins v James Stephens

Tullogher v Mooncoin

Blacks and Whites v Dunamaggin

Group B

Carrickshock v Fenians

Rower Inistoige v Young Irelands

St. Lachtains v Danesfort

Mike Casey hardly play after the hit he took last week

Far from a weak team is right, probably wanted to keep Hayes out of limelight and easing Casey in, holding of Gillane alright

The lean times were really 1984-1990. Only two Leinster titles won out of seven attempts.

Kilkenny won All Irelands in 1983 and 1992 and reached the final in 1991.

Nothing at all against Noel Doherty. Huge achievement to manage Thomastown to senior title but wasn’t Sean Kelly the coach. Every one is talking about the lack of coaching in the senior set up

It’s unbelievable…. Surely Doherty was brought in because it was obvious coaching needed huge improvement and then he’s not involved until now? That’s incredible really, Donovan clearly not up to it and now we go into the Championship massively under prepared.

any team that doesn’t have quaid gillane. Casey. Hayes. Daragh o donovan. Byrnes. Dan m and hannon is defo weakened. That’s literally more than half a hurling team

Any chance John lockes will do something in junior with all their underage success last couple of years or is it a year too early?

Their results the last few years have been embarrassing for a town team who should have a big pick. Obviously they've been damaged by the powers jumping ship to windgap, but surely they should be better.

The general mood around the county is that we are in for a tough afternoon, especially with carey and blanchfield missing.

We dont know yet whether Cody or Lawlor will line out tomorrow evening but what we do know is that definitely Shane Murphy and possibly Fionan Mackessy will start in their place. Weve struggled big time trying to get results against Galway, Cork and Tipp. There was no fight last weekend against Tipp until we went down to 12 men. It was all over then, especially when Tipp got to grips with moving the ball forward. They struggled with that for 10-15 minutes. In the 1st half we were way too casual in how we hurled and if we get one thing right tomorrow, it needs to be 100% drive and comnmittment from everyone on the field. If we get that then at least we have some platform to move forward into the championship.

God we have nothing off the bench

We will have a fair idea of the attitude within the squad tomorrow evening. Hopefully the lads will have a right crack at Limerick. We're down a lot of men but they are lining out for Kilkenny so it needs to be 100% effort and commitment

That's all we can hope for, if they put up a good hard fight I'm not worried about the result, don't think we'd have the players to win tomorrow but the attitude has to show that they are, as a group, pissed off with what they put on the field last day.

4/1 in Nowlan Park to win? Holy god. I hope we get some positivity out of the game but I just can’t see it. A. Mullen played a challenge game against Waterford went off after 10 seconds with a cut hasn’t been seen since, what is going wrong with him? Cody too what’s up there? Few weeks ago I wasn’t too worried about us but now it’s Leinster or burst for lyng. Since Limerick beat us by 2 points under Cody(yes they absolutely emptied the tank against a savage team and could have won it) what has changed? It’s the same **** bunch of players. We should paper over the cracks again in Leinster but just can’t see anything more. Feel sorry for Huw Lawor who is as fine as full back you’ll ever see.

Only thing is if there is any fight in us, 4/1 at home against a team with nothing much to play for might be worth a few quid!

limerick with nothing to play for? They can make a league final and they are all chomping at the bit to make that team.