Kilkenny GAA Thread

I dont think the present Managerial team have the appetite for what Cahill has done in Tipp. Its also easy for us to look at Tipp but no one gave them a chance at the beginning of the year. IMO for KK to progress we need to possibly find 8 or 9 players that can start or put a massive amount of pressure on the 1-15 players on the pitch from the bench. The current 15 starters against Tipp are a mature team that failed to get over the line. The majority are probaly at their peak while TJ and Eoin have been great servants but their time is probably up. Hopefully Tj will stay on. Whoever is manager next year will have to deide whether to stick or twist.

I think maybe Derek assumed that few of his u20 all Ireland winning brigade would drive on and take a few starting places on the senior team but for whatever reason it hasn’t happened through lack of them not getting enough chances or being more patient with them or them just not progressing as players to the required quality

The current 15 are the ones who more often than not deliver for there clubs every year

Could be waiting a while to implement the ring road rule, still a long ways away from being finished! While I agree that some lines could be redrawn, I think the ring road rule would be difficult to implement. Danesfort, Clara, Threecastles might benefit as they're probably the closest to town and people could go either way, especially Village people with their pitch on the kells road, but if I'm living just outside the ring road in Kilkenny I'm not going to travel 15-20 minutes out of town to Ballycallan or Muckalee when i have a city club 5 minutes down the road and much better roads out to them.

What could work is just that the lines between the bordering clubs and city clubs can be blurred where players that are on the edge of 2 or 3 club borders can make a decision. At 18 or 19 if they are considering giving up they could transfer clubs with the agreement of the original club. Far from perfect but might be better than outright telling people what club to play for.

When they do finish the ring road it will be state of the art just like the new Dunmore project.

Will any of us see either of these completed?

Well I saw Kelly and Glynn play this year and they were very good alright.

Mossy had a massive 2nd half for Tullaroan as did Gearoid Dunne. Graig seemed to go long all the time, worked well in 1st half not in 2nd. Some so called big names didn't turn up McEvoy & Corcaran in particular. Highly entertaining match though. Graig in a bad place now

OLG always had the advantage against the Boro after an early well taken Luke Hogan goal, led by 6 at h/t. Boro hung on in the match thanks to Timmy Clifford. Cillian Hackett was well held. Huw impressive again. Even when beaten, he has the pace to recover. OLG will be slightly dissappointed with their performance. Kevin Murphy subbed after scoring 3-3 the previous week. Owen Wall came on as a sub but was subbed himself. Kerryman did well. Boro don't seem to have the firepower

Shamrocks had a comfortable 14 point win over Lisdowney who conceded 4 goals to go with 5 last week. Lisdowney in a relegation fight with the loser of Glenmore/ Bridge.

Shamrocks had 11 different scorers and their movement was impressive at times. Eoin Cody at centre forward gets him more involved. Brian Cody scored 2-1. Niall Shortall took on his man more than normal. TJ set up 2 goals, his vision and touch for the first goal was sublime.

Concerns for Shamrocks are Joey Holden and TJ slowing down and their subs bench. Dean Mason mishandled to let in a goal

Lisdowney at least showed fight

Comer-Ballycallan and Mullinavat-Clara are basically relegation matches following yesterdays surprise win for Comer, although Mullinavat will likely stay ahead of Ballycallan if they finish on the same points due to their big win over Comer on the first day. If any team gets a result against Tullaroan it could drag them back into the mix but they should be safe due to the remaining match-ups. At the moment, I'd have to fancy Mullinavat and Comer to stay out of relegation. I think Mullinavat have too much for Clara and Comer have the wind in their sails now compared to Ballycallan who just can't seem to get over the line in games.

Yes massive leads. Clara also lead going into the last 5 mins of the last two games so there you have 3 teams that will be disappointed to be in their positions.

Unfortunately didn’t get to watch much this weekend really, but I’ll try catch up during the week.

Caught the end of Carrickshock and St. Lachtains only. Mick Rice and Eanna Martin were impressive off the bench. Carrickshock really benefited from Rice’s experience, had an air of calm about him and used the ball well. Martin stuck over 3 nice points and used the ball well also. Eoin O Neill apparently played well and looked good from what I saw. Young Franks looks to be a great bit of stuff too. SL looked a bit blunt up front today, Carrickshock defence was tenacious and really shut SL down. Can’t say anyone in particular looked impressive for SL, Brennan in goal and Kennedy centre back were on a lot of ball and probably were the better players for SL in my limited viewing.

Michael Rice is 41 and Eanna Martin is 39 fair play to the lads they must be very disciplined with their diets and fitness to still be playing at that age.

Interesting to see players like Eoin Lyng and Joe Fitzpatrick playing in the forwards for their clubs and doing really well, both really good hurler who played half back at underage for Kilkenny but maybe lacking a bit of pace for senior at half back would they be worth a try in the forwards for KK? They are both very skillful and good ball strikers and still very young.

It's amazing that Dmaggin haven't produced an "OK" forward since Kenny O Shea(Arguably more Windgap than Dunnmaggin). Eoghan Lyng might be a tad slow OK.I doubt Beirne will commit to KK setup as he's probably destined for "Greatness" like his dad in the business world. Word around Glenmore was that to get his senior medal he might have moved to Boro last year.