well Barney,
If you’re talking about the U20’s he is after trying a fair few players so he must know what he has now.
Best of luck to the minors today. I’ll try and give a summary when I get home this evening. For those who can’t reach on it.
Its a 20 man squad now so you need to be giving your bench plenty of game time too. But i agree with you. Need to be playing your first team and building confidence and momentum. We really need the back 6 settled IMO. Chopping and changing there would not do us any good. So hopefully the players there nail down there spots.
Kilkenny winning 1-10 to 0-07 at half time
Joe Dowling with 1-6 so far
Minors lost 1 19 to 1 17.
Pipped at the post by Wexford who needed the win
Where does that leave the minors now? A Leinster QF next? Pity to lose that as ahead at half time.
Are Kilkenny knocked out after losing 2 matches or are we still in ? I thought it was knock out for both teams ?
Semi versus Galway (if we'd won or drawn it would have been Dublin)
Tough on Westmeath who go out after two wins while we go through on one.
Sloppy 2nd half when we were totally outfought by Wexford.
How much from play ?
Think he finished on about 1-8 or 10, he got two from play two 65's the rest from placed balls. He also struggled with a few wides but recovered to hit his last few.
Leinster council made a serious **** up with the format, Westmeath getting 2 wins out of 3 being knocked out is simply wrong. I'd imagine this format will be gone after this year.
Do they avoid repeat fixtures for the semi final ?
I don't know to be honest.
That system is crazy. Whoever thought that up deserves all the stick they get. How does 1 team get through with 1 win and another goes out with 2 ?🤔
Personally I think whoever drew up the format presumed the 2 teams who emerged from tier 2 ( Laois & Westmeath) would lose any games they had against Wexford, Kilkenny, Galway and Dublin. Westmeath beating Dublin upset that but you shouldn't be presuming when drawing up a format.
Joe Dowling scored 1-11,2pts from play. There was a crosswind at the town goal in the second half, just saying.
meeting Dublin next, at least it will bring our lads on a bit.
Wexford were big and strong today and this told for about twenty minutes of the second half with the rain and greasy conditions. Saying that we coughed up an eight point lead. We are guaranteed another two games and we’ll see how it goes, it’s a crazy system but it’s after falling in our favour and we will have to make the most of it.
Taught we struggled to deal with your sweeper in the 1st half, have ye deployed that every day? I was guessing it was a reaction to our game against Laois where the full forward line got 5-8 from play. We were very passive in the 1st half totally upped the intensity in the 2nd, Jamie Downey centre back for us was immense. Open to correction but that Wexford team would have been seen as stronger than Kilkenny through the development squads age groups so would have been a big result for ye today.
Development squads results can be misleading as they are one year bunches only. Minor can bring in a group of stronger younger lads who can make all the difference. Disappointed to see us play with a sweeper nonetheless, I was only watching on clubber but it looked like it was same story v Galway. Just not scoring enough is the biggest problem, with the 3 goals the last day somewhat masking that. I think our starting forwards have scored 1-9 in total from play last 2 games, which is nowhere near good enough. 1-3 of that from one player. Bizarre to see us wait so long to make substitutions as well when we were so clearly under pressure. Wexford management introduced a number of lads which gave them energy and momentum whereas we left on players who were making no headway at all. Very odd.
Fair point and on that 2 u16s were important for Wexford in the final quarter Bryan Kennedy no.10 and Eoghan Kehoe no.23.
I thought the Wexford forwards were huge and caused our backs a lot of problems,saying that our defence stood up fairly well. As regards the sweeper they tried that for a while against Galway but with Westmeath we were a man down virtually from the start. Jaysus Billy on the development squads you could be right. We had sixteen or seventeen wides today also and it could have been a draw but Wexford came at the real right time and deserved the win. Anyway as I stated above a few times we are supposed to be weak this year but sure we can only get better. The one thing I thought was the difference today was the work rate Wexford totally out worked us when they ran at us there was always at least one if not two running off the shoulder.
Spot on marooned on the off the shoulder running and combination play. Wexford looked like a well coached team when they get on top. On the other hand we really lacked that link up play in attack and many of our wides were the result of a little bit of selfishness from our forwards which is a worry, and it was more than one or 2 guilty of it. Our lads seemed to be on a 'win it and get a shot off mindset. I'm not blaming the young lads, that needs to be coached into them. One thing about playing inter county hurling, you must look for, and give the ball to, the man in the better position. A pass to another forward shouldn't be a last resort.
Heard the wide count was Kilkenny 15 Wexford 11, actually taught our workrate was poor 1st half but improved significantly in the 2nd.
I think it’s a trait in all our teams poor off the ball running and interplay once a team gets on top of us our players seem to play as individuals and stop linking up
Would the limited amount of football in Kilkenny be a factor? Off the shoulder running is 1 transferable thing in the 2 codes.
I think it’s a small factor not as much as people like to make out our slowness to adapt to how the game has changed over the last few years is the main problem I think
If off the ball running was such a big thing in modern hurling surely some more traditional football counties should be doing a lot better in hurling than they are would be my view on it
The reason hurling isn't making tracks in traditional football counties is there's no appetite for it to do so in those counties, the improvement in Kildare for example is based on an influx of population in North Kildare from the likes of Kilkenny, Tipp etc. and alot of these people are willing to put in effort so their children have access to hurling and Camogie. Sorry for going on a tangent.
Yeh I do think that's a factor. A couple of teh Kildare teams that played in the Kilkenny underage leagues the last few years used to do it naturally and it's definitely from the football.
U20 team named, David Barcoe in at midfield instead of Kevin Buggy?
