Kilkenny GAA Thread

Great point there to level

draw is probably a fair result although Tipp didn't seem to be at full throttle

Tallis was good

What a touch by Mossy to take the ball down for the goal.

Great to see them going for goals, Moore played well.

Great to see us back playing traditional. Rather than pure crap with 13 behind the ball. TJ is still carrying us tho. He was instrumental in everything as usual

A lot of boxes ticked tonight plenty of goals up around the 30 pint mark

Tallis was Brillant stopped two certain goals I don’t think murphy gets back in unfortunately

Hopefully the injuries to Bolger and phelan aren’t to bad did Cody come off with an injury also ?

Tj is Tj

Molloy is becoming more important to us everyday he plays bit of a break through performance for moore I think he wasn’t shy infront of goal and took all his scores well where as in other games he was more likely to pass than shoot

Tipp overplayed the ball an awful lot instead of going direct more

The modern game of hurling is desperate to watch at times passs pass pass turn back over carry avoid contact across the field over carry repeat throw the ball etc it was tipps main game plan in the second half and some of the best forwards in the country waiting inside

TJ makes intercounty hurling enjoyable!
killian Doyle can play nice little 40 yard passes, but he is lost at sea at that level.

Happy enough with that performance, very much felt the reaction to the Galway match among fans was over the top and felt there'd be a response from us (although I had predicted a win). That said, other than the last ten minutes I didn't think there was much intensity to it from either team, it was a bit toothless maybe in part because of the short passing tactics that do tend to make games a bit dull unless everyone is going absolutely full throttle.

Tallis had some great saves in the second half that basically kept us in it. On the puckouts I think they started going short because agree about ten or fifteen minutes tipp had started to completely dominate the middle third and were clearing up our puckouts, which is worrying.

TJ was phenomenal again, just an absolute wizard and aside from all he scored (and he nearly scored a second goal which would have made a complete eejit of the keeper of it went in), he caused consternation when we dropped ball in on him, he's so smart with it.

I hope today confirms that eoin Cody belongs out the field, he can learn to deal with being man marked but he can't deal with being holed up in the corner, he had a fantastic first half today and a good game in general. Mossy had his best game of the year imo, and Liam Moore is looking like the find of the league for us. Donnelly is starting to be a worry.

Kenny was great again, thought Doyle had a great start then started to get overrun. A few of the backs struggled although for all the blame deegan gets (often correctly, but definitely way over the top) nobody seems to be giving him any credit for a fine performance today. Corcoran struggled I thought, and bolger had a hard day at the office that he'll need to learn from. But missing Carey and Butler there was always going to be a tough time for those lads back there.

Think both teams left a lot in the tank to be honest, but a draw in semple is a decent result and we should go back to salthill in a few weeks with a lot more self belief and a few players back. Going on what I heard about Galway today, a result there would be a serious statement, but they are properly tough now. Hopefully we'll get two battles with them in Leinster now and it'll make for an interesting year!

Tj, what a performance from him. He is just so good, still our best player in my opinion.

A nice spread, hopefully Liam Moore drives it on now.

McDermott did well when he came on as well.

Janey if you thought Eoin Cody had a good game maybe go back and look at it again. He should have been taken off earlier. He is playing his own game and not a team player. Totally agree he needs to be out at 11 but he needs to bring other players into the game. Killian Doyle on a lot of ball but gave away a mountain of ball.

I don’t know what some of ye were watching tonight there were three of our marquee forwards absolutely septic

So bad that we all thought Liam Moore squared that ball in the first half to a kilkenny man for a tap in 😂

I'd say Lyng will be happy enough. Much more energy in tonight's performance, clearly something up the last day. Not perfect but plenty to work on.
TJ is just remarkable. Great to score 3-18 from play despite a couple of our better forwards not quite at it. Only 8 of the team that started the semi final v Tipp started tonight.

James Owen's has to be worst ref in the game. Tipp defenders constantly fouling and pulling and dragging yet 1 free for Kilkenny in Tipps half in the entire game?? Couldn't buy a free, he's a disgrace. Then ignored a really dangerous tackle from behind on Darragh Corcoran for Tipps last score.

Couple of other points - Tom Phelan going off was a big blow to kilkenny as he was going well.

Eoin Cody - when he does pass - so many of them are not executed well

I thought Killian Doyle was very good tonight and was unlucky to be taken off. He has great hands and first touch. He made a couple of mistakes in a row which led to him being substituted but overall he was one of our better players. I think subconsciously Lyng is more aware of his mistakes than others given they are club men. Bit of depth at midfield now with him, Molloy, Kenny.

Forwards situation looking a little brighter all of a sudden also. Eoin Cody wasn't brilliant tonight but he did some excellent things, was very good in first 20 and caused big problems. Overhit a pass early on but was very decent I thought. Made the goal with a great pass for Mossy and then had 2 very poor wides, inexplicably for him. Had he walked off with 0-4 we'd have been happy enough. Mossys form is more worrying despite scoring 1-2 tonight. John Donnelly not fully up to speed either.
Ed McDermott was very bright and Tom Phelan had started well. We will need Stephen Donnelly and Adrian Mullen to be fully fit come the biggest days ahead. Liam Moore another encouraging performance but needs to stop fading out in 2nd half, but his work rate is excellent. Be great to see Harry Shine get back. Well done to Rory Glynn on his senior competitive debut also.

Aidan Tallis (or Alan Tillis as the TG4 guy called him there at one stage when I watched it back) is a super keeper. Depth there now also.

In defence, Garrett did well again. More worries here though I think. We need the 2 Mikey's back ASAP. And Huw, if you read this page, would begging do any good??

Agree here, think people are being way too harsh on Cody's performance today, was far from perfect but he set up several scores, worked well off TJ, and while he had a couple of poor shots, if those had gone over he'd have looked fairly solid. Look at the work he put in for the first goal, he's very good in those situations breaking out from distance. Don't know anything about his relationship with lyng, don't give a **** either, you don't have to like your manager.