Kilkenny GAA Thread

I really wish you’d stop that horse shite about Kilkenny guaranteed an All-Ireland semifinal every year, Dublin proved this year and Galway have shown on plenty of occasions what they’re capable of. Plus the fact that I can’t remember the last time we beat Wexford twice in a row and they certainly have the upper hand on us in recent years.

Obviously Leinster is not as competitive as Munster ( something that definitely works against us imo) but nobody in Leinster is guaranteed anything.

McGarry Family-

Deepest condolences to all the McGarry family on the loss of Seamus. May He RIP.

Hopefully this will show people the real reason not pure speculation as to why James was not there Sunday. A lad who has given everything to his club and county should have been given more respect.

Exactly no point making sweeping statements if someone told you 14 months ago when Cork beat Tipp in Thurles by 18 points what would transpire for Tipp this year they'd think your off your rocker,in fairness I taught they would improve in the next 2-3 years but the speed of the turnaround shocked me, nobody of us really know what's around the corner.

Talking to a player the other day and he was given a s&c plan to work on so that would tell me derek is staying.i have absolutely nothing against derek lyng he was a great warrior for kk and bleeds kk. He managed kk to a u20 title something we haven't done in a long time but why is he just allowed stay another year if he wants to? It was said here the other day he has new selectors. Who are they?Like most of the players on the team his position is safe. Winning leinster is hardly the bench mark. Lost 2 semi finals tamely and 2 league finals. We need to get this idea of losing to the eventual champions as a achievement out of our heads. Its not good enough. We have come on here every year for the last 4 years saying we need to find a corner back and a center back but he tried no one new corner back. Blanch and carey jumped in and out of 6 until richie came back. Is derek under presure to start richie or tj will be unhappy? If thats the case then derek would want to have a long look in the mirror.surely to god they sat down over the winter and had some kind of plan for the league. Id put the kerry man in center back and see how he goes. I cant understand how puckouts are so poor. I dont know what they do with puckouts at training. Theres also talk of billy ryan going traveling.huw will be a terrible loss. How is it kk are so slow to bring players through compared to other counties. I know liam gathered up what young lads he wantes and trained them fierce hard in the winter. Kk will be hoping ivan bolger,michael brennan and marty murphy will be in the dump this winter training. He probably needs to look at more 24 or 25 year olds. We desperately need a shake up in the back room team. Pj might ring kieran donaghy and bring him up to help out the back room team but i cant see pj and co thinking outside the box.

As i said the other day and we all know how tight the county board are but tom mullally,brian dowling and david herity are miles in front of some of the people involved with kk gaa. I presume both underage coaches retired but nothing would surprise me. Hopefully pj and co are workingaround the clock and impressing tom mullally or trying to convince brian dowling to come home. It will be intresting to see who they appoint for the 2 underage teams.

WhatsApp rumour around about 'war' in the Cork dressing room at ht ....

IF ITS TRUE , it probably explains the 2nd half performance, and the cancellation of a homecoming...

IF ITS NOT TRUE, it's a good piece of fiction to mesh the collapse and no homecoming together .....

I don’t think that would be any indication whether a manger is staying or not as you say it’s just good practise to make sure players are in good condition and have a bit of structure for the next few months and are ready to rock come nov Dec

Savage, where are they in the stadium? (I'm living abroad these days so not sure when I'll see them, only been in the park once in ten years! (And that was for the 22 homecoming:-())

Condolences to the family and not that it matters in the grand scheme of things but seamus passing was unexpected and wouldn't of stopped james going sunday because they didn't this coming so quick some it wasnt false rumours. This is guaranteed fact.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123666740#Comment_123666740

Here's the stencils done so far, they're by Paul Murphy from Lisdowney.

Here's his Instagram, talented man.

https://www.instagram.com/paulmurphypainting?igsh=MXAxOHFjaG9oMWtjZQ==

Wouldn’t be surprised if he did

Anyone know the reasons? If he wasn't getting the support needed from the board it would be great if he just went public and said so, there'll be no pressure on them to improve things without high profile guys willing to say what the problems are publicly.