Kildare GAA General Discussion Thread

beertons · 12-05-2019 12:12am

A win is a win though.

cantwbr1 · 12-05-2019 10:34am

Any positives from the match

jack67 · 12-05-2019 10:59am

yea won

klairondavis · 12-05-2019 5:53pm

cantwbr1 wrote: »

Any positives from the match

McCormack looked sharp. Doyle is fit. No further injuries.

cantwbr1 · 12-05-2019 6:48pm

jack67 wrote: »

yea won

That’s always positive.
I’m assuming that they took the foot off the pedal in the second half and paid the price (we only have 2 gears, flat out and full stop)

jake1970 · 13-05-2019 5:07pm

The second half performances have being a worry all season.

Scoundrel · 14-05-2019 2:13pm

That performance was an absolute disgrace playing a one man full forward line against Wicklow probably the worst Wicklow team in 30 years Cian O Neill is absolutely clueless and needs to resign immediately or this season is another write off any other team in Leinster would have beat us on Saturday. Why are our defenders so weak? Why can't we defend against players running straight at us? The Wicklow no.8 destroyed us in the 2nd half by simply running directly at our defence why is Paddy Brophy being picked he was horrible again on saturday was horrendous over the league

Kevhog1988 · 14-05-2019 3:45pm

Scoundrel wrote: »

Great to see the two Kildare championship matches live on TG4 yesterday some great performances from players not being considered for county duty.

Some score by James Kelly on the wing. Carbury left the game behind them.

klairondavis · 14-05-2019 8:22pm

Leinster MFC Rd 3:

Kilkenny 0-5 Kildare 1-12

Scoundrel · 24-05-2019 2:34pm

Longford at 11/4 is an appealing prospect this weekend im afraid.

klairondavis · 24-05-2019 9:31pm

Flynn for Jimmy Hyland.

Johner · 27-05-2019 1:09pm

Gave away some bad goals yesterdays, just run at us and you cause us problems, same old story.

Lucky enough in the end to get another shot.

klairondavis · 27-05-2019 8:01pm

It was a strange game. We could have won it handily and yet we would have had few complaints if we had lost. Same old problems in defence. We are wide open when teams run at us. It has been an issue since 2012.

lorcand1990 · 28-05-2019 10:10am

klairondavis wrote: »

It was a strange game. We could have won it handily and yet we would have had few complaints if we had lost. Same old problems in defence. We are wide open when teams run at us. It has been an issue since 2012.

On top of that we definitely lack a killer instinct. We had a decent lead against Wicklow & it ended up tight because of slack defending, same again on Sunday. Not sure if it's complacency but we had a 6 point lead a few mins into the 2nd half & a 3 point lead in the 1st half of extra time & squandered both. We really should be winning from those positions & ended up lucky not to concede a point in the last minute of normal time

I know we'll always say goals are avoidable but the 3 we conceded on Sunday were really poor. 1st was from a Longford kick out against the wind that fell over our midfielders & it seemed like the half back line were caught completely cold & they came right through us. The other 2 goals were keeper errors IMO with the kick out mistake & not catching/clearing the high ball

Scoring was really good from both teams & 1st half was very enjoyable to watch but our defense is so shaky when put under any form of pressure

klairondavis · 28-05-2019 4:51pm

I wonder will CON consider changing the goalkeeper. Aaron O'Neill is still eligible for the u20s and the policy last year was the hold those players back for the underage team.

lorcand1990 · 29-05-2019 10:21am

Even with the mistakes I'd be surprised if he changed the keeper with only a week between the games. I've only seen a bit of Aaron O'Neill play but would like to see him get a chance, if he's good enough he should be in the team

klairondavis · 29-05-2019 4:14pm

U20s team playing Dublin in the Development League tonight:

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klairondavis · 30-05-2019 5:01pm

klairondavis wrote: »

U20s team playing Dublin in the Development League tonight:

Kildare 0-14 Dublin 2-14

Dublin threatened to run away with it in the first half. Kildare came back into it in the second. There were a few changes from the team listed above. Kildare had probably 2/3s of their first choice playing. Further games against Kerry and Cork upcoming before the championship first round against Laois.

EICVD · 02-06-2019 8:15pm

See you all next weekend, well a few of you anyway

klairondavis · 03-06-2019 12:34pm

An improvement yesterday on everything that has gone before this year. The forward potential is there to do a bit of damage but we still look vulnerable to pace and direct running back the field.

lorcand1990 · 04-06-2019 11:28am

Much better yesterday, aside from the first 15 mins! Defense looked much more solid. Moolick & O'Grady coming in definitely helped tighten things up, I'd imagine they'll stay in the team for Sunday

Johner · 04-06-2019 12:20pm

Yeah, a decent performance in the end.

I don't think Dublin have looked the unstoppable force they've been in recent times, unfortunately I can't see us being the ones to stop them but let's hope we give it a good go.

Scoundrel · 04-06-2019 1:49pm

Yeah the defence tightened up nicely for this game it's clear they worked on that during the week I think we just have to be competitive for as long as possible next Sunday we won't win but if we can keep it competitive we'll have done well.

klairondavis · 05-06-2019 8:49pm

https://twitter.com/KildareGAA/status/1136358805934104576?s=20

dobman88 · 05-06-2019 9:08pm

The evergreen legend Johnny Doyle kicking 3 points from the bench. Proof that class is absolutely permanent.

Into the final against Meath on the 23rd of June and a game I will be trying to catch to see JD play again.