Kilkenny GAA Thread

Fourth

Thanks to Derek for amazing service through all he has done for Kilkenny as a player, selector and manager. Thanks to his family who have allowed Derek to give so much of himself to Kilkenny which undoubtedly would have been at their expense to large extent.

Derek is a very genuine and very dedicated to Kilkenny hurling and I believe he did everything in his power to get Kilkenny over the line. It worked out for the U20 Leinster and AI and for 3 Leinster finals, reaching an AI and two semi finals.

Unfortunately sport is cruel and unforgiving and it's usually in the final few percentage points that is the difference between failure and success. The ultimate goal he and all of us wanted wasn't to be for him and while I've been critical of our setup, I would never doubt that Derek did everything he could to find the best path forward to achieving AI success every year. I would just have felt a different path might have been better but he was than man who had to make those hard calls. It's easy to be the hurler on the ditch.

It was always likely to be a thankless task following Cody and it has turned out to be.

Thanks for all the time and dedication put into Kilkenny over 25+ years

I know things didn’t work out for Billy but he was highly regarded as a savage prospect for us at minor and under 20 level. He scored five points from play in an All Ireland final against a highly fancied Limerick team and was man of the match on the day…and as far as I can remember he was our top scorer against Galway that year ( did he score 16 or 17 points?)

I don’t know what happened with Billy but he seemed to lose confidence and his work rate just wasn’t up to scratch. You could say management would have to take some of the blame for their failure to motivate him and he always looked like a lad that wasn’t enjoying his hurling once he joined the senior setup. He has to go down as another good Kilkenny player that went by the wayside because of poor player development.

We often hear how Cathal O Neill couldn’t line out for Limerick making it an easier task for Kilkenny but that Limerick under 20 team that started had Adam English, Colm Coughlan , Aidan O Connor and Shane O Brien to name a few. Why haven’t we got nearly as many seniors from the winning side. Not even our star player on the day.

just see Tommy Shefflin name popping up as a coach, I’d go for that.

I genuinely don’t know, I remember there being a bit of a snide comment about him one night in there and in the company of the then top table his name was brought up and let’s just say they didn’t hide their dislike of him.

Seems to be a lot of talk about Henry in the media, including RTE news. He wouldn't be my choice. I'd favour Dowling or Mullally. Eddie Brennan did well with Laois, but they were at a very low ebb when he arrived in 2018 and could only improve. Managing Kilkenny is a different story.

My thoughts on Lawlor, Carey and Ryan. If they're all, or any of them, available great. If not move on and don't mention them again. Every county meets that. How sickening it must be for Mayo to be losing a generational talent to Aussie Rules, imo a very unskilled game.

In Laois we lost a chap who had played senior football at 19, to Aussie Rules in 2006, Colm Begley, for his peak years. We lost a great talent, Zach Tuohy, to Australia who won every honour there. That's the equivalent of losing a Tommy Walsh and Henry Shefflin. They were gone, and that was it.

Westmeath dealt with the injury to their best player, Luke Loughlin, really well. Others stepped up and Mark McHugh saw there was a retired player who still had a lot to offer. He maximised what resources he still had.

she’s a problem in the CB inner circle

Yeah that's true, the gold is tipps second string alright at that age group. Presume KK1 is the first team? Think Laois Blue hammered the Tipp gold team too.

Presume its just a league similar to Celtic challenge. Hard to keep track of all the different competitions. I would imagine the fact the minors still involved in championship all them lads will be staying with the panel for the Cork game.

No matter who is installed as manager we will have to be patient because he will basically have to start from scratch and his first aim is to retain div.1 status, some people don’t think this is vital but it really is we cannot fall any further and start losing both support and revenue. After two years we would want to be showing grass roots and go from there, but patients is required. But this is only a quarter of the issues we are facing. The CB will have to realise that they are a failed entity and some should resign to prevent a blooody coup which nobody wants there needs to be an EGM called from within the county board to at least discuss where we stand. Anyone who doesn’t think we are in a crisis shouldn’t be in the county board. Anyway Hi Ho Hi Ho.

What Time is the game in abbotstown on Saturday

jaysus that’s right I was in Nowlan park for that last year my memory is coming back. You see what I mean confining us to Leinster.

Galway play in the Leinster competition under 14

Do ye guys think that the reason why the KK CB don’t seem to like Mullally is because he managed us in Wexford at U21 level and was a coach for Wexford at Senior level (An awful long time ago) or is it something more personal?

David Herity should be considered for senior manager/coach role.