Kilkenny GAA Thread

I have put £10 on alot worse 4/1 shots.

is the Kerry man good enough yet? 😆😆

John Donnelly and TJ Reid making some difference too

Not worth cashing out for a tenner.makes the win a little sweeter

I love being wrong. Excellent team performance if gillane had scored some of those points that Mossy got.today .we would be all gushing over him. Hugh Lawlor is class..shane walsh needs to be in that team. Hopefully the injury to kenny isnt too serious

Its.almost better that limerick did come back into it.and we weathered the storm and kicked on

Great to have John Donnelly and the great man back. God they improve us so much. Mossy and Billy Ryan working hard again, the 2 are having very good leagues. Cian Lynch won't want to see Cian Kenny for a while

Good to see Kenny giving it to Lynch, need more fight like that and Fionan throwing his weight around as well.

Fair play to all for restoring pride in the jersey. Fought hard and hunted in packs. More cohesion in their play. Obviously more important for KK than LK but still. I hope Shane Murphy keeps his place, he uses possession well. I was delighted to see Billy Ryan score off his right, he doesn't do this often enough imo and would make him a more difficult opponent to mark. Mossy was excellent, won a lot of his own ball. Mackessy brought good physicality. TJ was central to a lot of play. Huw steadies up the back line and Mikey improved on recent displays. I would like to see Tallis or Galway (when is he back from injury?) get a chance in goal as Eoin still struggles with distribution

Great performance today. Mossy in hoty form. Mackessy and Donnelly very good too. Hope some took on the 4/1 odds.

Can’t read it, it’s behind a paywall. What’s the general gist of it??

I thought TJ was excellent today, he used all his experience and street smarts and rarely wastes possession, He does so much work and little runs off the ball taking defenders with him to create space for the likes of Mossy and the other forwards.

He might be 37 years of age but knows how to be very efficient with his energy levels and only puts the needle in the red when it’s absolutely necessary. I think he was immaculate from placed balls too today and he’s still so important to this team.

I’m obviously hugely biased but he’s the best I’ve ever seen without a doubt.

Great display today. All players much sharper than priorvleague games in ball control, stick passes, catching, passing & shooting; highest score from play to date even if it could have been better. Also faster to the breaking ball. Also, told me the panel is stronger than we thought with Blanchfield, Carey, Cody and Mullen to return. If we had the 20,000-40,000 fans behind us that Cork and Limerick can draw on this team coukd test anybody. Wonder why Offaly won the u20 and 13 man Tipp minors had their miraculous AI performances last year. A large passionate support of 10,000+ makes players play out of their skins and achieve unbelievable performance levels. What I find incredible is that Kilkenny players achieve these levels even with our small fan base.

How many from kilkenny actually attend home matches in nowlan Park? From an official attendance of 6500 or so we surely had less than 3000 there today? I thought there was a slightly bigger Limerick crowd there but that's only what it looked like from the old stand. It looked like about 8000 based on last week's attendance. Which or whether its a disappointing turnout for a traditional hurling county.

Kk u19 bet by 6 points I was told. I know none of the u20s involved and its the first match but that's a dissapointing result. Eligible u19s on the extended u20 panel would be better getting game time in this competition. Will we ever know what's going on when they leave school the transition to underage has being very poor.

Well done to kk today. No one will get carried away but we probably learned that alot of the younger Limerick lads aren't as good as we thought. We know Limerick were missing an awful lot but kk needed a big performance after last weeks performance. Alot of things said during the week but this was a confidence boost heading into the championship where they have a few weeks to knuckle down and work on things.mossy has had a great league and kk really need him to drive on now in the championship. Today's cameo will hopefully give Harry shine confidence because we need these lads breaking through. Fionan was very good and it will be intresting to see how he goes in a few months. Donnelly and tj are still so important to the fowards. Tj just keeps on giving and giving

TJ Reid scored 0-10 today.

If he wasn't playing Limerick would have won by a point.

Is that assuming it would have been 14 v 15 or that the player on instead of TJ wouldn't have scored or had some influence on the game? Either way, great contribution