Kilkenny GAA Thread

that was me I was woken by a mate who rang me by mistake and I found it hard to go back.

Fair enough, hope you got a good rest after 👍

The reality now is we have win our last two games against Kildare and Dublin. If Dublin beat us we deserve to be knocked out and maybe it will be the best thing to happen us in the long term. If we qualify for the Leinster Final and the All Ireland Series that will only hide all the issues that we have in Kilkenny and nothing will change.

What kind of injury? He was helping with the warm up drills anyway, throwing balls in and looked ok.

Need to keep him fresh for the Dublin match now, I'm sure they will stick Liam Rushe on him.

Agree with that John as I said above better off to be gone. It might start the revolution. Would the county board top brass not be meeting with the team management today to discuss the situation that we find ourselves in? And if not why not.

This thread is such an echo chamber now .... all day every day , the same rigmarole from the same people .....

Reid is sh1te , deegan is sh1te, lyng is sh1te , refs are sh1te , and now the umpires are sh1te too, the co board is sh1te .... fennelly was doing a great job , co board is sh1te so he moved on ,

reid is sh1te , deegan is sh1te , scruff's puckouts are sh1te , bring in tallis , no dont, scruff is a great shot stopper, scruff's puckouts are shite , especially when he gives em short to deegan , shur deegan is sh1te..... the dump is sh1te... the app is sh1te .......

Lord almighty........

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Infairness when we're winning you will always spin a negative on things anyway so I'm sure you're quite happy.

I only saw the highlights but Galway must have been very complacent, Kildare are very well drilled under Dowling and extremely honest but when it comes to the crunch some of their players are very limited.

I agree that some of their players are limited unfortunately some of our lads have their limitations.On Dowling when Derek Lyng decides its time to go would Dowl8ng be a strong candidate if indeed he would be interested

Yeah and they were missing Cian Boran and David Qualter too, very physical side with good size and play with intensity but they’ve struggled to finish out matches all year, they wouldn’t have much in the way of depth and seem to struggle when teams are making subs from the 50 minute mark on, I think they’re much more difficult to play at Newbridge than they are when are away, get an early lead on them and they can struggle when having to chase a game, they can be very sticky if they get out to an early lead though

Would love to see him take over in kk tbh. He has had a tremendous and sustained run of success with extremely limited resources in kildare, while also having success at home with the college (less limited resources there admittedly!) and the camogie. If we want someone who can knock a tune out of a team with some limitations, and someone with a serious tactical mind and who players reasons to, for me it's him or mullally right now. Shefflin might be in the conversation but he needs to prove himself with this u20 team before he is in for serious consideration, imo, his tenure in Galway is not a great advertisement.

Either way, we surely do have to be thinking that, unless there is a major turn in our fortune, at the end of this season lyng needs to be relieved of his duties. A great servant of the county but he has had plenty of time and never put a stamp on the team, and doesn't seem to have harmony in the dressing room at this point. Obviously our troubles don't begin or end with lyng, and he came into an impossible situation, but as part of a general root and branch review of our whole setup, the senior management is still an issue here.

On the match my only comment, as I only heard it on the radio (and the highlights would make you think we had a great game!), is that it's madness moving tj out the field these days, given what he offers under direct ball on the edge of the square, and it's further madness just point blank refusing to take off Cody no matter how out of the game and off form he gets. It's ok, like, he's a great player and he's a big boy, he'll get over it and have better days, just take him off when it's not working.