Kerry GAA discussion thread #2

League such a strange competition. Went from near relegation to making final in last 10 mins of final round last year.

Three home games only so need to pick up wins there to stay in division. Hope to see a pile of players getting a run to shake up starting 15.

jam83 wrote: »

Brolly fairly went after colm cooper in the independent today. He definitely holds a massive grudge against those "handy" all Irelands cooper won in the last decade against mayo and cork. Not the first time he's gone after coopers achievements in the last few months. Brolly definitely doesn't look good in all of this.

He fairly pathetic at this stage. A child cud have written that tripe.

jam83 wrote: »

Brolly fairly went after colm cooper in the independent today. He definitely holds a massive grudge against those "handy" all Irelands cooper won in the last decade against mayo and cork. Not the first time he's gone after coopers achievements in the last few months. Brolly definitely doesn't look good in all of this.

I cant wait to hear Brolly's satirical take on Philly McMahon's book- it will be as classless I'm sure

Fitzmaurice will be ratified now on Wednesday night,Needs to shake things up drastically in the new year

Munster Football Championship Draw for 2018 just made.

Kerry will play the winners of Clare and Limerick at the semi final stage. Cork play the winners of Tipperary and Waterford in the other Semi.

Prop Joe wrote: »

Fitzmaurice will be ratified now on Wednesday night,Needs to shake things up drastically in the new year

Maybe for the first 2 weeks in the league. After that I wouldn't be surprised to see the same old faces.

mystic86 wrote: »

Is the Crokes v South Kerry game on TV today?

Deferred coverage on TG4 at 4.30pm I think

Have your county board released venues for the league games yet? Will be travelling for the Donegal game.

Stoner wrote: »

Very nice, love the classic three stripes on the shoulder. Always thought there were too many similar green and yellow tops but that is very distinctive the white stripes on the green shoulder

I'd say many will follow the lead.

Who's voice is that on the first video.

Mick O'Dwyer.

Same As wrote: »

Draft League Fixtures announced. Venues to be confirmed.

We open our campaign with a glamour tie vs Donegal at home. Pretty much the same run of opponents compared with last year.

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Allianz Football League Division 1 2018

Round 1:

Saturday January 27th: Dublin v Kildare;

Sunday January 28th: Galway v Tyrone, Kerry v Donegal, Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney (2pm), Monaghan v Mayo

Round 2:

Saturday February 3rd: Mayo v Kerry, Castlebar (7pm), Tyrone v Dublin;

Sunday February 4th: Donegal v Galway, Kildare v Monaghan

Round 3:

Saturday February 10th: Dublin v Donegal;

Sunday February 11th: Galway v Mayo, Kildare v Tyrone, Monaghan v Kerry, Iniskeen (2pm)

Round 4:

Saturday February 24th: Mayo v Dublin, Monaghan v Tyrone

Sunday February 25th: Donegal v Kildare, Kerry v Galway, Austin Stack Park, Tralee (2.30pm)

Round 5:

Saturday March 3rd: Dublin v Kerry, Croke Park (7pm), Tyrone v Donegal

Sunday March 4th: Galway v Monaghan, Kildare v Mayo

Round 6:

Saturday March 17th: Kerry v Kildare, Austin Stack Park, Tralee (7pm)

Sunday March 18th: Galway v Dublin, Monaghan v Donegal, Mayo v Tyrone.

Round 7:

Sunday March 25th: Donegal v Mayo, Dublin v Monaghan, Kildare v Galway, Tyrone v Kerry, Omagh (3pm)

Updated with times & venues based on master fixture list released today.

1 game in Killarney (opener vs Donegal) and 2 games fixed for Tralee (Galway & Kildare).

Kerry Kildare moves to a Saturday night fixture instead of Sunday as original published.

Big result for Camogie in Kerry today

Clanmaurice beating Athleague in the Junior Club All Ireland Semi Final 3-4 to 1-7

Congrats to all involved

Radio5 wrote: »

Big wins for Crokes and Gaeltacht in Munster today.

Crokes game against Nemo should be a cracker

Benildus wrote: »

will it be a Kerry or Cork venue?

I wonder will they have it on in Pairc Ui Chaoimh

ciarriaithuaidh wrote: »

Neutral venue I'd imagine, so Mallow or Limerick, on Sunday 26th. Should be a good game but think Crokes have marginally better firepower.

An Gaeltacht had a good win in Munster Intermediate today aswell and I fancy them to be very close to winning the All Ireland there at least.

At the Crokes game/coming out of the game I heard Fitzgerald Stadium, Mallow and PuC all being mentioned as the confirmed venue, so wait and see. It's been a few years since there was a Munster club final in Kerry, so Kerry might be due one.

In terms of firepower Crokes scored 2-19 with 2-13 from play and yet on the day were wasteful enough by their standards especially when it came to goal chances - they had at least 4 very good goal chances, although one of those four chances was a very good save by the KiB keeper, the other 3 goal chances were pretty much all a foot wide. They missed a couple of kickable points as well. There was one stage in the first half where Crokes had 5/6 missed chances in a row between goal chances and point attempts, very unCrokes like.

Serious hard to look past Crokes for Munster and you'd fancy them to give the All-Ireland a right rattle.