keane2097 wrote: » Stacks are pretty overrated IMO. People are talking as if nearly all their forwards are good enough for the Kerry panel, I wouldn't even have most of them on the Tralee team.
keane2097 wrote: » Strand Road are looking like a massive lay as second favourites at the moment. Squad is going to be decimated by people going abroad this summer.
Boom__Boom wrote: » Any word on whose heading abroad?
keane2097 wrote: » There's a bunch gone already, and when we were beaten by Stacks in that town league game the other week the word was that something like another 8 of the starting 15 from that day were going as well. Micheal Quirke is retired as well of course.
Sizing Waterford wrote: » good win for the stacks today over castlemain. Was that shane crowley playing that fellas were recomending for the kerry panel?
Bullseye500 wrote: » Can't believe Strand road are being touted as second favourites for the championship, especially with all the players going away. Their backline is absolutley muck, few of them getting the run around by a division 2 outfit tonight...wont name players..
ciarriaithuaidh wrote: » Even allowing for ups and downs the Kerry Senior c/ship has dipped in standard massively. This is not good for development of players or from a spectator point of view. I'd love if the board made a couple of hard calls to rectify some of the issues. First on my list would be "No team outside Division 1 of League allowed to compete in Senior c/ship". This would mean only clubs who were truly prepared for it would be allowed into the competition. Otherwise, they would play with their divisional team. Applied right now for example, this would mean Laune Rangers players would play with Mid Kerry and Legion players would join up with East Kerry. Both those divisional teams would improve immeasurably. The downside of course is that clubs would kick up a huge fuss...playing Senior c/ship is a matter of pride, but to me, it would be for the greater good. Plus, if a club can't get into division 1 then they can't claim to be a true senior club in my eyes. There would need to be a bit of help given to divisional team for preparaton leading up to the championship also. Clubs have no obligation to release players for training or challenge games and in a lot of cases, don't. There are many cases of Divisional teams going into a 1st round game not knowing what sort of squad they will have, which of course never leads to any kind of success. A few designated weekends in April/May at the very least would allow divisional teams to assemble their best squad. None of this will happen in reality of course. A few years back one club with a huge tradition was allowed to play Senior c/ship despite operating in Division 3 of the Co League which shows the power of the clubs and how hard it is to implement anything like what I described above. Maybe the board should look back in time and ask themselves if Tom O'Sullivan (failed to make Kerry minor squad in 1996) would have made the grade and won those 5 Celtic Crosses were it not for East Kerry's 3 in a row of 1997 to 1999 which he played on? Did Bryan Sheehan, Declan O'Sullivan, Killian Young benefit from the strong South Kerry teams of the 2000's? Did Feale Rangers do a lot for Anthony Maher and Paul Galvin? Of course, there are things outside our control like emigration and students heading to the U.S/Britain for the summer to earn some cash, all teams are effected to a degree, but we can only control the controllables. No system or solution is perfect, but the current standard and situation are doing Kerry football no good whatsoever.
BPKS wrote: » On a similar theme our club have played 11 games in the last 11 weeks and are out the next two weekends too. 13 games in 13 weeks. After that we will have 4 games in the next 13 weeks. During the summer. When pitches are good and it'll only rain three-quarters of the time. Then come October, November and December if you are still in the club championships and (un)lucky enough to get a run in the divisional championship, you could be out every weekend in those months too. And then you start training in January again.
Bullseye500 wrote: » On the bench.
Sizing Waterford wrote: » the groins must still be causing him problems.
Mike Frank Hustle wrote: » Legion have shown serious improvement under Peter Keane and a side for the future. Although someway off the Crokes Legion could still battle with the rest as they have shown so far in the club champ. Still think they will have to wait there time to upset their noisey neighbors.
Bullseye500 wrote: » True some great young players including the Keane brothers..see Aidan Slattety back involved if he can get back in proper shape there's another great addition.Handy player in his minor days.
Mike Frank Hustle wrote: » Don't like to be speculating but is he not in his 30's. I'm afraid his minor days are long behind him still a good club player all the same. His younger smaller brother Kieran has potential though.
homerjay2005 wrote: » excellent win for the minors tonight, hammered Tipp by 17 points. dare we believe this is finally a team good enough to win an All ireland?
stuba wrote: » Spillane is something else, kicked all his points with ease. Could have had a few more if he wanted to aswell. If we win midfield against anyone I think we can beat anyone, forwards are lethal, and midfield is one our strongest in god knows how long. Tougher challenges lay ahead. It was hard to tell tonight were we so good or were Tipp so poor. A bit of both really, I guess. Edit: Is Páirc uí Chaíomh not out of action this year with the renovations?
