Kilkenny GAA Thread

Callan, Thomastown and Comer should all have competitive school teams but are non existent in A competitions. Fair play to Johnstown who seem to be making a big effort. If you look at clubs like Mvat, Glenmore, Tullogher, Rower they seem to produce plenty of players in GCC who are always competitive in Leinster A. Definitely too many talented hurlers losing interest when they don't make Kieran's teams

2014 was last minor all Ireland win I think

Anyone have the frees conceded stats from today's match?

Tipp beat us last year with long deliveries from their keeper and then played smartly against cork.we played tippy htappy stuff tonite playing with a wind inthw .1st half. To much tactics now and 3 passes where 1 will do.pick our best players in their best positions and go and hurl.were getting dragged into tactics and over coaching that just doesn't suit us IMO .

in all fairness kilkenny looked like a team that was doing heavy blocks of training all week , when you see a side as leggy and slow , and when good players like john donnelly loses his first touch it speaks volumes of what the team have been doing

its 6 weeks to the game in galway in the championship , i imagine the performance will be much better but its all about the importance of wining leinster getting that semi final spot and getting over the line again, you dont go from being 2 points away from an all ireland final to today without a reason behind it

it seems the route that the management want to take going on today , and lets face it if the team knew they were only 2 points down rather then 3 last year they probably wouldnt have spent 4 minutes going for goals

it also says bad and all things are in kilkenny they are still top 3 in the country consistently, which is a pretty good starting point going into a championship given the explosion of money in munster , clare tipp and cork have pumped some amount of money into their sides under age coaching ,adult coaching ,inter county teams ect.. to compete with an ex man united owner financing limerick

and the money side of things has changed the game big time since 2015 , for example corks sports psychologist missed one game in last years championship , the all ireland final because he was tied up with the lions tour , that was a crucial loss as it turned out

What a ridiculous, idiotic statement. We lost three finals in that time, some you win, some you lose. Lots of overreaction here tonight, as to be expected but let's not lose all leave of ourselves. Yes, it was a disastrous performance and suggests the new coaching team have made no impact, at least not in a positive direction. This year has been pretty underwhelming so far to say the least.

But as has been pointed out its 6 weeks(an eternity in modern championship) to another lash at Galway so we will know a lot about where we are going after tthat. I can guarantee we won't be as listless in that one and we got a good glimpse of what Galway are all about too tonight. The match V Tipp in two weeks will be a good barometer on whether we have recovered mentally or not.

It took Kerry from 2014 to 2022 to adopt and they needed outsider help, they always had the footballers.

You see Kiely with Kinnerk and Kinnerk only, yes Limerick have a big back room team but Kinnerk is his right hand man.

Who is Lyngs go to guy who is putting their coaching stamp on this team?

Have you a shred of evidence to support your claim that Kierans "poach players from other schools"? We are a very small populous county, so we will never have more than 2/3 strong hurling schools despite being a hurling stronghold.

On a **** day for our senior team, Kierans eptitomised everything that we associate with Kilkenny hurling.

And look up your hurling history if you think senior success is uncorrelated with schools sucess.

Laying the blame for lack of senior IC success with Kierans is well wide of the mark.

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It's hard to know what to make of tonight, we have great players but they're not playing as a team.

That's up to the management to get them to gel together as a unit

It seems there's no one to lead the team, a true sync between management and players to drive them on.

A leader needs to stand up and take responsibility and grab a game by the scruff of the neck and bury it home.

In fairness to the young men concerned I'll not name names. But you might find enlightenment - if you are open minded -by looking at where the players are from on recent winning SKC teams. Some of them would have a fair old walk to school.

You ask for evidence on one hand but provide none to back up your link betwen colleges success and senior All Irelands. I know SKC have won more Croke cups in the last 10 years than we've won Senior All Irelands.

There may have been some links in the past but that is ancient history now. Totally irrelevant. The only thing I take from hurling history is that innovators dominate. We used to innovate e.g. Fr T Maher and early to mid B Cody eras, and earned the success that came from that.

I'd prefer if SKC was back innovating and developing talent rather than curating underage fantasy hurling teams.

Huw lawlor is some loss to KK.. tis only when he is not playing one sees how unbelievably good he was....

Eoin cody doesnt look a bit interested at the moment...

KK havent the same quality/standard of player that they had 15years ago..

Someone said something about county board.. underage structures.. development squads not being upto scratch... i remember back in the early 2000's KK had the BEST underage structures in the country.. other counties went to KK to see how they were doing things..

Finally where is Mackessy? He would strengthen the HB line big time