Kerry GAA discussion thread #2

Crazy waste of money.

You are looking at this strictly from a GAA perspective. Any upgrade to Fitzgerald's stadium will redesign it to cater for events as well. Killarney is probably second only to Dublin for accommodation. Fitzgerald's stadium is also very central to the town center. Less than 5-10 minutes from the town center and the railway/bus station.

Ireland lost out on the last Rugby WC because of

Lack stadium's it will probably get a chance again in about 10 years time. Killarney is one of the stadium critical to that bid strictly from an accomodation point of view

Surprisingly strong panel, given all the absentees being well-flagged in advance.

Can you pay cash at Austin Stack park tomorrow or is it online tickets only?

Just curious, if you didnt know any better and landed at the gate with cash only what happens?

I was at game on Sunday and you can pay by card at the gate.Not sure about cash.

Was brought forward to 2pm last week, so TG4 presumably showing deferred coverage after a live game.

It's the live game on TG4 at 2pm according to the TG4 schedule.

The front eight probably where we look weakest, but we still seem well served at the back:

Lovely new away jersey. Will debut tomorrow against Donegal.

Loved the Kerry goal, seeing the messing with the short kickout and ridiculous handpassing fully punished 😊.

No-one will be getting overly worked up about the first round of the league, especially with half a panel, but still frustrating to see all the sideways passing - flashbacks to the Peter Keane era!

Adrian Spillane was punched off the ball before he was taken off. Was clipped by a few Donegal players throughout the first half after he moaned about a few decisions and lost the head altogether.

Then Donegal had a point (if not 2) that looked wide that Jack was furious about in the first half.

Little to be complaining about. Lads need to get the O'Neills out this week and kick the ball over the bar. Wasted plenty of chances.

Good game in awful conditions on an awful pitch. Donegal deserved the win but we should have managed the game much better at 1-6 to 0-3. Nobody went down to kill Donegals momentum when we hadn't scored for 20(?)mins.

Dara Roche impressed. Not the best outing for Tony or Killian.

Lots of lads started well but ran out of steam.

Poor enough Kerry crowd compared to previous years but understandable considering the long journey.

Big pressure to go on and beat Monaghan next week now.

Didn't think it was a total disaster today given who we were missing. The big thing we found out is that the starting forwards are good subs to have but the lads behind them on the panel have some Work to do.

Patton wound the clock down perfectly. Limping out to the ref before a kick out with Donegal up by one. Few nonsense "stretches" and he bangs it past the half way line. Our lads didn't have that tactical nous to take the sting out of the game when needed and devoid of ideas in the latter stages.

Donegal stayed with us 1st half and made use of the wind 2nd half while we missed at least 5 handy ones to just suck the life out of us.

A good run out for lads and shows them the standard they need to get up to.

Much better and much sharper performance.

Jack Barry was my MOTM. Exceptional workrate and central to everything good we did today.

Brilliant from Donal Down, Tony Brosnan and Darragh Roche as well today. Brosnan dropped deep and set up some amount of scores.

Lovely cameo from Paudie Clifford as well.

Huge Adrian Spillane fan as well. He is brilliant at breaking up counter attacks from.oppisomg teams. Really brings a strength to us in the middle third.

Brilliant goal.by Paudie today. Killian is probably better coming on as an impact sub at this stage. We saw last year at championship how he was the choice for that. He probably has a bit of work to do before championship. Both O'Sullivan and Roche may be challenging PG for his position.

Missing Adrian's work rate bug time in first half, it'll take some come back

It’s February… mayo have more training done than Kerry.. tonight’s game was an all Ireland final to mayo.. if they are playing like that in June/July fair play to them.. and it’s not rocket science that without David Clifford upfront kerry aren’t up to much.. I wouldn’t be worried about it..

I be a bit worried. If all the new young filads I see nothing new there except Barry O Sullivan at midfield. We have not managed to find a new half forward or half back.

I had hoped Breen back would give an extra option but he was poor against Donegal.

Half forward line was too small tonight, really missed Adrian Spillane. Probably should have tried Obunkor at half forward from the start to help strengthen the middle third.

Dylan Casey looked ok when he came on but hard to judge. What the story with Dan O Donohue.

The only hope is they are training hard but some improvement is needed. Having said that both the midfielders played well enough it was just neither our HB line or HF line preformed well.

Not as long as I can remember and I've been following Mayo a little while now.