Kilkenny GAA Thread

Should they have won, probably not. Did things fall their way, almost everything.

Can't agree with either of these things.

They won because they were the better team, just about.

I'm not sure how almost everything fell their way. There was plenty that didn't.

The problem is, it's not Lyng that's picking Reid centre back…

Billy Walsh son of the great Ollie, in Duggans menswear on High St is organising the tee times for the golf. Not sure if there are many left.

Minor & U20 Management Teams

Is anyone able to confirm that both these management teams have either quit themselves or that the county board have relieved them of their positions. Pls don’t tell me they are still considering hanging around next year. If this is to happen the clubs need to come up with alternative mgmt teams. We surely cannot have both these mgmt teams returned again. I have a bigger problem with this years U20 setup. Why oh Why did KK play with a sweeper in Nowlan Park. A complete surrender. Not sure if this is true but did KK i20s play a challenge match against a Tip club team in the lead up to the final? If that’s true thats enough of a reason for the mgmt team to be got rid of. Not that KK had a different game plan for the final from previous matches but by plying a Tip club team they might as well have trained in front of the Tip U20 mgmt in Semple stadium. A complete and utter farce but once the mgmt were allowed bring in a Tip selector that was the warning sign for this group. Hopefully they have done the honourable thing and stepped away.

Up in the stocks in front of Kilkenny Castle I hear, self flagellating themselves on the grounds that they haven't given as much time as you to Kilkenny hurling this year, just on the basis of this post

So we drop Butler and Lawlor for the under 20 backline, serious amount of bollocks been talked about on this thread

Mcphillips is not near that level either his hurling leaves him down. I agree entirely about the u20. Only one team came to win the final, absolutely pathetic from the management.

so is that a Yes or a No

I don't think Lyng should stay on but unfortunately I don't think he will go. A number of issues stand out to me from this year. Having Michael Rice as goalkeeping coach is a joke. No offence to the man but in the modern game it needs a specialist with a focus on puck outs. The best two puck outs in the county are Diarmaid Galway and Darren Brennan but I doubt we'll see either of them this year.

Noel Doherty was brought in and the county board spent half the year fighting his appeal against an unjust suspension. Talking about supporting your own. Judging between the differences between the way Thomastown and Kilkenny play it is obvious that he had very little influence with Lyng.

Do we have any sports psychology involved in the setup at all. Kilkenny may have never officially adopted this route but we had the best unofficial one for years who had a massive influence on some of the best players we ever had. If you think of Brother Damien's influence on Kilkenny and Caroline Cuurid with Limerick, I feel it's definitely needed to bring the best out of the players.

As has been stated so many times here, the centre back position was never sorted. Again, no offence to Ritchie Reid but when we get to business end of the championship his style of play seems to be exploited by the opposition. I think Blanchfield was treated very harshly this year and it seemed that often the back line was switched around to fit Deegan in somewhere.

I honestly believe we are not that far away but unfortunately we are the same distance away as we were when Lyng took over and obvious areas for improvement were ignored.

I can never understand why Kilkenny management (the last two) haven't persisted with the brief experiments of Deegan in the half forward line. Any time he played there he was good, especially in the league semi final in the park v Cork. He seems to get the token run out there to keep everyone quiet and is then put back in the backs. His pace would offer us something different. We never seem to run at the opposition backs any more. At this stage, his effort and determination is keeping him in the backs more than his defending. Reid's time is probably up in fairness. We need to either put Blanchfield there long term and stick with him or go with Huw there and find a full back.

Lads is Zach Bay Hammond near getting on the team? I thought was very talented whenever I saw him underage

Unbelievable athlete. Could sprint for ireland. Just doesn't have the hurling or know how craft.

Horses mouth: was brought in this year to handle shane o'donnell was it to arise.

I play hurling in the US now and there's a few lads I play with that are on the USGAA team that entered this for the first time this year. They lost by a point in extra time to New York, was very disappointing because I was hoping they'd come up against Kilkenny. Glad the kk footballers have found a competition that is at their level, don't see a situation where we'll compete at senior any time soon

beaten by a goal unfortunately

Woeful smell of manure off some of the comments here if I'm being brutally honest. 😂