Kilkenny GAA Thread

A lot of bad wides and Waterford seem stronger and fitter.

Mullen not in the game at all unfortunately.

Outfought and outhurled and when our best player goes missing for 60 mins it's hard to win

Exciting finish but can't complain about the result, well played Waterford.

Great game to watch I must say, Waterford’s two corner backs were outstanding.

Some good players coming off both minor teams on display today.

Yes management is a massive problem. But that Waterford team were , more athletic, much better hurlers, more physical and probably 10 points a better team. There forwards were exceptional.

I’d still prefer James O Connor over my team… I know these lads are trying their best and it’s easy to criticise but our management looked lost again., Fair play to Waterford and I hope they win it now. Young Spain is some hurler.

Great game between two very skillful sides. Waterford played better overall on the day. Their full backline was superb and Spain had a great second goal. I'm disappointed for our Kilkenny young lads losing 2 finals in a row. But there are a number of very skillful players throughout on that team who will hopefully progress to be great at u20 and senior level. The hurt from losing 2 in a row may be the making of them. Thank you to the team and management.

That was the semi against Waterford who were runners up in Munster. We didn't play the best team in Munster. Clare play Cork tomorrow. I'd say we are behind the 3 Munster teams and this was meant to be our best minor team in a long time

I think we probaly could have made a few subs earlier but Waterford players just won more positions against kk players

How many kk players came out on top against there markers today for instance

I don’t think it was a tactics or systems issue compared to say the tipp game last year

Power is

Waterford reminded me of good underage Kilkenny team's years ago when we were consistently contesting All Irelands. Really good forwards, great in the air , physical verging on dirty. We are gone soft, arrogant and self entitled , it's sickening. Comes from the county board,It's on the line, it's in the stand. It's on this forum.'We are gone soft.

Calm down, the chap is only 16 to be fair.

This game definitely won’t define Jake’s club or county career that’s one thing for sure.

100% Mullen and holohan just weren’t in the game should have been brought deeper sooner possibly the temptation with the wind is always to lump it longer but most of the forward's prefer low ball

You have to say the Waterford backs were excellent to

It’s beyond frustrating yeah similar to the 20s you know a lot of the players are better than what they showed on the day but for whatever reason don’t reach there previous levels of performance

When our great team finished up in 2014/15 ii was always going to be hard for us as we fell back into the pack. Not only have we fallen back but we have been left behind. You could compare us to Man United, once a great football team, still a big club but average football team now. That's where Kilkenny are at. We are average and we seem to have settled for average. Let's not kid ourselves we are behind the Munster teams at Senior level too. We would struggle to get out of Munster. Counties have gone 30/40 years without winning All Irelands. We are not special it can happen to us