Kilkenny GAA Thread

Very much the faults obviously in KK teams in recent time listed in PM article.

Chasing one man and then stopping once he passes instead of keeping going to support the next tackler. That being said we are not standing the Cork lads up at all as we're too far off them

The minors played like a team who felt their chance of silverware was gone and they didn't believe they could win the All Ireland.

The result felt inevitable from halfway through the first half. It's not that they didn't try etc but were put away easily by a decent Cork team. There was nothing spectacular about Cork. Just that bit better all round.

There is an obvious decline in standards across all grades, whatever started the rot.

Marooned was saying, I don't know his source, that Lyng is staying on. That's bad news all round. I think Kilkenny CB need to be thinking of an EGM soon. Not to apportion blame to anyone but to identify what's wrong and start moving in the right direction. Otherwise the past month won't be an all time low and results will fall further.

Yeh we were really, really poor. That's a very average Cork team. Very difficult to see how more of our lads weren't replaced? I reckon some of our players had 1 maybe two possessions. Cork looked a well coached but limited enough team, we didn't seem to have any gameplan or structure. We looked poorly coached and our work rate which was good the last day, was very poor today.

A depressing end to a really depressing year for Kilkenny hurling.

I've said it before but until we overhaul this county board with capable, younger, progressive people, and get funding in place to support them, we will decline even further. The last paragraph of PM's article says it all;

' 'There is an equally important and equally serious question about who should best become the next Kilkenny County Board Chairman. I have heard some alarming names mentioned'

If he comes from any of the existing county board officials, we are screwed for years.

For such an average team our lads seem to have done well, a 9 point win in a quarter final not to be sniffed at. Okay we’ll have our work cut out for us in the semi….tipp gave us a bit of a clipping in Munster. But we’re in it.

Nothing against the current top table and management committee but the starting point would be an EGM to try and get a completely new team in place. However a group of people will need to come together to stand against them. Will need a complete clear out to start afresh. Is there a core group of people out there willing to do it to bring others along with them?

If a bunch of people came forward and seemed capable the clubs would have to vote them in. Would existing county board reps bite off the hand that feeds them (all clubs need to have a serious look at who their county board rep is aswell)

This All needs to happen before county teams management's are appointed so you cant wait until convention.

We're in a bad place currently but with the right structures and belief we can turn this around very quickly. Everything from top to bottom has gone stale.

I said it here a few weeks ago. Our coaching at club and county level is poor. Evidence with all our teams this year. Poor mobility, poor first touch, nobody putting a hand up to catch a ball directly, poor tackling and much more.....there's no part of the game you can say kilkenny excel at anymore

We need a new group of people in as soon as possible and the first thing they need to do is educate and train our coaches better at all levels. At the end of the day, hurling is a game of instinct. The instinct should be in the county, you just need the coaches there to allow the players to express themselves busy giving them good basic foundations.

Also I should have added. Every club and members share a part in the blame of where we've gotten to. We've all sat on our hands for too long.

Same as I've mentioned above needs to happen for Bord na nOg too

Iff we didn't have confirmation of how far off the track we've gone, then this result really sends a shiver down the spine. I purposely haven't commented on results over the last 2 weeks, more out of despair than anything else I'd say, but we really have dropped to levels that I haven't seen in my time watching kilkenny. And that's not today or yesterday. Root and branch scrutiny of everything we do has to be analysed now or were going to stay at this level for a long time. Let's hope we have the balls to take it on at every level in intercounty.

when you see the Cork chaps fist pumping twenty minutes into the first half and no reaction from our lads that said it all, our day was done.

I think so on the All Ireland Cork would have been well geeed up for us.

TBH I didn't like the article. Ok the lads on the wrong side of their men for important goals. But everything else was as mentioned here.

No need for the Tipp digs or saying the 1993 leveller v Wexford was better than any worked score of Cork 2004-5. To paraphrase Cody 'did he look at every point Cork scored in those 2 years?!'.

It was an over long over verbose piece. Barely under the surface was a tone of superiority. I like a bit of humility and it read as insular.

And the obligatory reference to football as a less beautiful game than hurling.

Agreed. Much harder to get the head right for a team you have hammered 3 times in last 3 serious games.

agree entirely and I actually named at least 5 people who I would stick in as chairman. There has to be a word of warning here if this isn’t solved it will go to the bottom and then all hell will break loose and that will lead to all sorts of problems. Because these people don’t know when to quit and everyone knows this ,

Everyone here would be called all sorts of names etc. by the CB if there was trouble, but I wonder if there could be a bloodless coup started by an EGM and sensible people presiding over it like Nicky Brennan and a few interested parties like Eddie Keher as observers who are not on the CB and have no truck with anyone.

I’m dreading the day I look up Kilkenny RIP and Kilkenny GAA will be listed on it.