Kilkenny GAA Thread

The reason 80% of the tickets are sold out for the Munster Chanmpionship, if thats the case, is that you couldnt pick a winner from all of the teams involved. Any team of 5 could win the Munster Championship. The case in Leinster has been more or less one way traffic for 25 years. This has to have an effect. I agree re clubber above, its a great service for only €150 for the year and we make great use of it at home but when it comes to Inter provincial championships, nothing beats being there. Maybe the county board could trial concessions for adult tickets for Kilkenny GAA members? Would this get people to travel to matches? Yes, you would have to pay for membership but if you got €10 off match tickets, it would be worth it at the end of it all.

Where did you get that 80% of tickets were already sold?? This has come out today.

Munster GAA have today confirmed that tickets for the first three rounds of the Munster Hurling Championship will be sold exclusively through county boards to clubs.Tickets for rounds 4 & 5 will go on public sale from April 8. Competing counties will also receive allocations.

At least the club supporters will get tickets when they are on sale through the clubs.

Well whatever about the specific numbers, the fact that they are going through the clubs for round robin matches puts to bed the notion that our bad attendance are due to players throwing the ball or scoring points from too far out, or television. Attendance have never been higher as long as there's some drama involved. To me, there's three issues, one is that kilkenny fans have never been particularly good for turning up in numbers, and those that are have always been too quiet,2013 v tipp in nowlan Park is memorable precisely because it's a total exception to the rule. Second issue is that Leinster has been not just predictable, but totally boring: the quality of the hurling is way lower than in Munster. Third is, ultimately it feels like the Leinster championship doesn't matter.

Good news on the second and third points is that I think in the next couple of years kk and Galway will be better teams. Both of them. Not sure what to do about the first point though. You can't force people to be better fans.

I have travelled all over the country for many years because its a ppassion.didnt go to salthill as there and wexford park there is always a breeze and are terrible to get out of.nothing beats being there but the throwing of the ball has devalued the game look forward to travelling down to thurles Saturday week ans supporting the team

Did the KK minors play Westmeath on Saturday?

thanks Chaz,that mightn’t have been too bad,considering Westmeaths progress in recent years.

I'd imagine the problem here is the problem that has been there the last number of years and that's one man running Bord na nOg the he wants it done and not the way that the clubs, main board, coaching and games committee and players want it ran. Until he is gone things will never improve in Bord na nOg!

Are clubs part of the problem ? How can we have gone from producing an abundance of skillful, ball winning players with character 15 years ago to producing the complete opposite over the last 15 years ? Is it the modern society or what is the issue, just thinking outside the box.

Although it is another sport but the same association we produced players like Kobe McDonald in an abundance 20 years ago,

I’m not sure what the figures are going back 10 years are

Yes 300k this year next year last year is great but when other counties are spending that amount and more over an 8-10 year period that’s where the issue is and why we’re so behind I’m guessing like everything else were late to the party and playing catch up in every aspect in comparison

Were a small county and you can argue our spend will always be lower than other counties who are bigger in population and geographically but if we’re the super power in hurling everyone says we are and hurling is everything to people the investment should have been made to keep the show on the road and keep us mixing it at the top table not the slow steady decline we seem to be experiencing right now

Tipperary went from 1971 to 1989 - 18 years.

we had two ten year barren spells at minor level and we have also beaten that record of late with 11 going on 12 this year.So I’m just wondering is there even alarm bells ringing in the ears of the CB high command or even the county board reps who can ask the hard questions but I’m afraid to say they don’t seem to be doing that. Now I know it’s hard to get answers but this will have to happen soon or the whole thing is fucked.

Sorry I'm not saying that spending on coaching and games has been grand the last 10-15 years, I was specifically talking about the previous poster saying Mick Fennelly walked away because of penny pinching when I thought spending, roughly, €150k-€200k a year on coaching and games wasn't exactly penny pinching.

I'd agree with you, our population and geographical size should make it easier for us to identify the most talented players at a young age but also at the same time being able to still to find players who develo at a later stage. Since we last won the minor AI in 2014 we have got to loads of inals but have been blown away, usually by Galway, in nearly all of them. The common narrative after these games was that physically and from an S&C stand point we weren't able to compete and needed to change. Personally, the main change I saw is that we started to pick bigger stronger players who were able to compete better but who's skils levels wouldn't have been at the same level as previous years. It's intresting looking at the review that was undertaken into the Mick Dempsey report. A lot of the problem's they sem to have are coaches and clubs not buying into the new way they want to go about things. The main problem I'd have with that is that if they have coaches in the squads who aren't willing to go with the new procedures and systems why are they still keeping them invloved, surely it would be a perfect chance to get rid of some of the deadwood that has been hanging around in there!

I'd agree but I think what we really lack is a real innovative coach, all we seem to be doing is trying to copy and paste what other teams are doing but I think what we really need are innovative coaches who are putting a better stamp on a game plan that more naturally suits our style of play.

The biggest problem with Kilkenny playing this running short passing game is the players are just not used to it ,there's no club in Kilkenny who play that type of game, its all very direct and very physical in the club championship here in Kilkenny which makes for very exciting games ,but then players are brought into the county set up and told right we're playing like this and there just not used to it ,its alien to them.

You have to be able to mix it up now by going direct and playing this possession game as well and knowing when to do it .we are a bit behind in this aspect of the game.

In what?😁