Kilkenny GAA Thread

They're motoring now in fairness. Some great shooting by Murphy with all the space created in front of him and Michael Brennan has been excellent

Good spread of scorers

hard to know what to make of that? Bullshit running with the ball, when they did send it in long we got results especially just after Laois came within a point we got our act together no bullshit and hit a massive 11points without reply backs were relatively good and of the six forwards Marty Murphy and Michael Brennan were outstanding and Ed. Lauhoff had a good last twenty.

I forgot to mention Anthony Ireland Wall,who I felt started the ball rolling when introduced and picked off two great points.

I wouldn't mind if people were saying Munster is a level ahead of the Leinster championship at the moment because thats undeniable, but its like some pundits are trying to put down Leinster or over egg Munster, on second Captains pre championship preview Jamie Wall said if Waterford were in Leinster they'd be favourites to win it and described watching Leinster championship as eating your vegetables, on that logic we shouldn't be watching club championship as that's a level below intercounty.

Loais were quite nieve in that they left it two on two inside and there was oceans of space. Kilkenny had a strong wind in the second half. Thats why they went long.

In fairness to them they committed to a game plan and stuck to it. There was not one stupid ball launched into nowhere but I agree they tried to thread the needle a bit too much at times. But that’s how you learn and perfect

I fully agree as regards the scheduling of games is terrible but I love watching hurling and if kk are playing and I can go I will doesn’t matter who the opposition is or how one sided I might think the game could be

I would never miss a kk game to watch another game in a different province that’s madness to me

There’s clearly a gulf between the teams themselves in Munster one team is going for the there 7th tittle in a row Clare no Munster for years Waterford similar Waterford’s record in Munster is shocking

A good competition to me has different winners every few years

Tipp fans wouldn’t even go support there team in thurles last year and were outnumbered by cork fans

Waterford fans similar

Plenty of dead rubber games in Munster last year
There are some good games in Munster but this narrative that it’s the best thing since sliced bread is way off imo

Bashing Leinster hurling all the time doesn’t make Munster hurling even better or put it on a high pedestal

I wouldn't turn this into a Munster v Leinster debate , better the game of hurling v the Gaa hierarchy. Football over the last number of years was dying on its feet and people switching off in droves. Revenues down, desperate measures required,over to Jim Gavin and FRC and in fairness a miracle solution. Revenue stream restored all is right in the Gaa world again. Why can't the hurling season be run as per football? National league starting in January like the Walsh cup and its Munster equivalent of the past, provincial championship knockout format and then All Ireland open draw series? Level playing field for all. Having watched Antrim and Offaly seniors and Laois under 20s in the flesh I despair about the state of hurling outside the Munster championship.

as is often said semi finals are for winning abd job done last night

It took Kk a while to get goin but i thought that the backs did well throughout with bergin & lyng offering real pace comin out with the ball too

midfield was lahoff and mcphillips, they are a decent duo, mcphillips is a great athlete and very pacy, lahoff is very classy and has great vision, he must have laid on 5 or 6 points

Frees prob need to be nailed from minute one against the dubs.. brennan was very good throughout.. I wasn’t sure how marty and McDermott would work but McDermott played a lot at 12 and they interchanged, both were very good

I just don’t like the attitude that’s beginning to creep in towards Leinster hurling some of comments from pundits even from Leinster have being bad and disparaging

Even the likes Of rte themselves the last few years have seemed to show more Munster hurling than Leinster

Hurling is the game that should get the promotion and coverage no matter what province

The bias towards Munster hurling is wrong imo

Munster hurling is not the only competition in town

Leinster hurling isn’t as bad as people are making out the same way games in Munster aren’t absolute out of this world everyday

Both competitions are very different for a lot of reasons populations geography history tradition etc

Yeah in fairness to him he is the best forward we have seemed to produce in years. We could well see him in a senior jersey this year, he was outstanding v Offaly last year in the Under 20 championship, and the championship is the best place to judge. I thought Mcdermott might make the step up but Murphy is well ahead of him going off last night.