Kilkenny GAA Thread

The problem is Kilkenny don't play Gaelic football to any reasonable level so the approach is alien to Kilkenny players. The running game was designed to negate the strengths of Kilkenny, with the additional upside that it's something that Kilkenny instinctively struggle to replicate.

Correct ,and then Limerick became hugely successful at this (they also had brilliant hurlers) and because of this success everybody follows suit,and what you have now is a very different game where possession is king, the 50/50 is almost gone from the game ,you can take more than the allowed four steps, throw the ball,tackle with the arms,barge, and know that you'll never be pulled up by the referees ,and all this will be cheered on by Donal og and some others as a great thing.

Fingers crossed, it was a **** drive home from Salthill !

2013 I think

maybe we should revert back to the old style and catch them on the hop and they would have no answer and finish the running game, weather the ref would even allow ground strokes or overhead pulls would remain to be seen.

Awful lot of nonsense in that post. Every sport evolves over time with analysis, different coaching methods, etc. Hurling, gaelic, soccer, rugby all completely different now than they were in the 80s or 90s. Gaelic is different now than it was 2 years ago sure!!

There's been some amazing games of hurling played in the last 10 years with the different style of hurling. Both cork Limerick games in 2024, cork Limerick and clare galway semi finals in 2018. Kilkenny cork 2021 semi final. Just those off the top of my head

I agree. One big rule change would be no pass back to the goalie. A forward press is really hard when the goalie can be used as an outlet.

The Throwing of the ball has to tackled.watch old games and you could see clear separtion.Once a referee enforces the rule thats there then we will see a change.but at the moment no referee seems to want to enforce the rule.

Would go a long way and the refs need to be backed

I’m not having a go at you zetecescort but this total horse shite that Kilkenny people spent years telling referees to basically ignore the rules is a myth that seems to have grown legs over time and it’s absolute nonsense. People often point to the fact that Brian Cody said he likes to see refs “let the game flow “ but FFS thats not the same thing as asking refs to turn a blind eye to the rule book.

Letting the game flow means not blowing the whistle for every bit of shoulder to shoulder contact or minor physical contest….giving an advantage as much as possible even after a foul has been committed before blowing it up….nobody likes a fussy ref that turns it into a free taking contest, but……it never ever meant allowing illegal play .

Anyone watching hurling now can see the hand pass has become a serious issue . The amount of blatant throwing has turned into an absolute farce , and it’s not just one county, nearly everyone is at it now, although some counties are worse than others.

For Gods sake pointing that out as a Kilkenny supporter isn’t hypocrisy , it’s just people wanting the basic skills of the game , like a proper hand pass (and a few others) , to actually be enforced the way the rules say they should be.

by the way the old hurling rules wouldn’t be tolerated now, they do not want any sort of danger in the game now so that every youngster can participate without fear of injury. Just one simple example, when a player is soloing up the field and the other is trying to dispossess him by poking in the hurl it’s generally a free whereas one time you could lace him left and right and he would just ward off the tackle with his free hand. It’s the same as catching a high ball the defender had the right to pull on the ball and again the player catching the ball would ward off the pull with his spare hand if the referees saw you doing that now you would get jail.how to protect yourself was part of the skills of the game. What I’m saying is they could blow you now for actually correctly following the rules.

100% Robbie

Co Minors playing a challenge match Vs Clare in Nowlan Park at 12

Any result on that minor challenge?