Kerry GAA discussion thread #2

Same As · 05-03-2020 12:14am

Great comeback, dominated the second half. Sean O'Brien superb throughout tonight. They are a fit bunch, kept going right til the end.

Cork given a standing ovation at half time :pac:

awaywithyou · 05-03-2020 8:52am

Forge83 wrote: »

Great second half win by the u20s.
Top class performance from Ruadhri O Beaglaoich. A pacey forward who can take guys on and score.
Darragh Lyne and Sean O Brien two massive driving forces in the second half. Very impressed with Lynes pace for a midfielder and he has a bit of bite about him too.
Really strong bench also.
Paul O Shea and Walsh quiet by their standards so more to come from them in the semi all going well.

o'beaglaioch looks like he'll make the senior grade..... nippy and accurate

Bass Reeves · 05-03-2020 10:35am

awaywithyou wrote: »

o'beaglaioch looks like he'll make the senior grade..... nippy and accurate

Might be a tad on the small side. Was only watching it on TnaG. However the full back McCarthy looks a strong footballer, in the second half he came out with a few balls, he looked comfortable carrying the ball and always found a man with his kick pass.

An Ciarraioch · 07-03-2020 1:03pm

Donie Buckley has parted company with the County Board with immediate effect:

https://twitter.com/Kerry_Official/status/1236251030490435591

Fr Tod Umptious · 07-03-2020 2:04pm

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Donie Buckley has parted company with the County Board with immediate effect:

https://twitter.com/Kerry_Official/status/1236251030490435591

Sets reminder on phone to listen to Terrence Talk on Radio Kerry on Monday from 6pm to 8pm.

fire_man · 07-03-2020 3:39pm

What are the reasons for his departure ?

An Ciarraioch · 07-03-2020 5:48pm

Presumably fell out with the selectors again.

Kerrydude1981 · 07-03-2020 11:51pm

County Leagues starting tomorrow, some club pitches are going to be in some state after all the bad weather, get the games played that's all the county board care about

wonga77 · 08-03-2020 12:06pm

Itll be rush rush rush now and get a load of club games out of the way. Alot of pitches must be in sh1te. It must have been hard for clubs to even train the last few weeks considering the weather

An Ciarraioch · 08-03-2020 3:42pm

Offaly lead Antrim by 4 at HT in Tullamore, so at the moment looks like the hurlers will miss out on the league final.

dobman88 · 08-03-2020 3:50pm

See Gooch is still doing the business for the crokes :pac:

How sick would it be for a Spa B player to turn up of a Sunday morning and be told ah yeah you're marking Gooch there today. Best of luck. Lol

https://twitter.com/DrCrokesGAA/status/1236662608457064455?s=19

An Ciarraioch · 08-03-2020 4:57pm

Amazing finish in Tullamore - Offaly led by six approaching injury-time, but two Antrim goals rescued a draw, ensuring a Kerry v Antrim final!

seligehgit · 08-03-2020 5:03pm

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Amazing finish in Tullamore - Offaly led by six approaching injury-time, but two Antrim goals rescued a draw, ensuring a Kerry v Antrim final!

6 minutes of injury time at a minimum.

Antrim goals in the 76th and 78th minutes.

conor05 · 08-03-2020 5:10pm

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Amazing finish in Tullamore - Offaly led by six approaching injury-time, but two Antrim goals rescued a draw, ensuring a Kerry v Antrim final!

I presume Parnell Park, Dublin for the final
Next weekend?

An Ciarraioch · 08-03-2020 11:01pm

No arrangements made so far, anyway.

County final of Scór will be held in Milltown community centre this Friday - quiz starts at 6.30, and the other events start at 7.30. Format of the tráth na gceist is slightly different this year - first 60 questions follow usual table quiz routine, but then the top 3 teams go up on stage and answer 20 individual written questions (5 per team member), each worth 2 marks, so 100 is the maximum possible score. No doubt another titanic battle with our old rivals from Rathmore awaits!

dobman88 · 09-03-2020 6:38pm

Hurlers in Croke Park at 1pm on Sunday. Dublin v Meath pushed back to 3.15pm because of it. Delighted for them getting the big final day after a great year so far, just a pity its clashing with the footballers in Monaghan.

Kerrydude1981 · 09-03-2020 7:39pm

Conway should enjoy the spaces of Croke Park, if he is on form then Antrim are going to have a tough job on their hands

dobman88 · 12-03-2020 12:55pm

Assume the games have to be called off this weekend after that announcement?

BPKS · 12-03-2020 1:18pm

dobman88 wrote: »

Assume the games have to be called off this weekend after that announcement?

I think they will play them behind closed doors to get the league finished

dobman88 · 12-03-2020 3:27pm

All games off until March 29th it seems so that's the league finished with unless they pick it up in April

Kerrydude1981 · 12-03-2020 3:29pm

dobman88 wrote: »

All games off until March 29th it seems so that's the league finished with unless they pick it up in April

Club Championships are going to be up in a heap now as well.

An Ciarraioch · 12-03-2020 7:03pm

Scór officially postponed:

https://twitter.com/Kerry_Official/status/1238163148030373888

An Ciarraioch · 18-03-2020 3:10pm

If/when normality resumes, club games would require a 2-3 week lead-in time:

https://twitter.com/Kerry_Official/status/1240278452063920129

Kerrydude1981 · 08-04-2020 9:23am

Interesting interview with Mr Twiss from a few weeks ago

https://twitter.com/radiokerrysport/status/1244272434217455616

DDC1990 · 19-04-2020 4:21pm

Half Time in the 2014 AIF on TG4.

1-3 to 0-6
Very defensive. Keeping plenty of men behind the ball. Good tackling. Poor shooting.

davegilly · 19-04-2020 5:32pm

DDC1990 wrote: »

Half Time in the 2014 AIF on TG4.

1-3 to 0-6
Very defensive. Keeping plenty of men behind the ball. Good tackling. Poor shooting.

One of the worst games of football I've ever seen. When the final whistle went that day I'm not sure if I was happier that Kerry won or not being subjected to that ****e any longer.

The_Honeybadger · 19-04-2020 6:03pm

davegilly wrote: »

One of the worst games of football I've ever seen. When the final whistle went that day I'm not sure if I was happier that Kerry won or not being subjected to that ****e any longer.

In fairness that was the only way Kerry were going to win. If they had played as they had all that year Donegal would have picked them off with ease. I thought Kerry got their setup right on the day and got that bit of luck that they didn’t have in some other finals too. It was a great day out in Croke park with the minors winning as well.

Kerrydude1981 · 19-04-2020 6:12pm

I wish they would just show the All Ireland's from the 70s and 80s,
away more entertainment then today's games

Boom__Boom · 19-04-2020 8:32pm

Worth having a look at the stats from the game from Dont Foul.

https://dontfoul.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/donegal-v-kerry-2014-championship/

cms88 · 22-05-2020 10:00am

thegaelicgame.wordpress.com/2020/05/22/kerry-gaa-pay-tribute-to-the-late-moss-spillane/

Said news this week. Be strange not to see him around ASP

cms88 · 27-05-2020 3:50pm

www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/not-so-dalo-austin-stacks-reject-claims-of-football-only-blinkers-1001805.html

www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/columnists/anthony-daly-kerry-hurling-should-be-helped-build-their-own-kingdom-1001482.html

Makes for interesting reading.

Bass Reeves · 29-05-2020 3:13pm

RTE on there website have being doing a Sunday Game team if players that were on Sunday games team of the year since 1978. It was voted on by Ty the public.

Bit disappointed Kerry only got 8 of the 15. TBH that's tongue in cheek. Delighted we got 8 we will not be as lucky with the Independent 202050 team . Biggest name Kerry player to miss out was Micky Sheehy.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2020/0529/1143384-the-final-xv-football/

Mick McGraw · 29-05-2020 4:14pm

Bass Reeves wrote: »

RTE on there website have being doing a Sunday Game team if players that were on Sunday games team of the year since 1978. It was voted on by Ty the public.

Bit disappointed Kerry only got 8 of the 15. TBH that's tongue in cheek. Delighted we got 8 we will not be as lucky with the Independent 202050 team . Biggest name Kerry player to miss out was Micky Sheehy.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2020/0529/1143384-the-final-xv-football/

As great a player as he was not sure Moynihan should be the full back on the team he was a great player in the half back line but only really a good full back from my memory.

An Ciarraioch · 30-05-2020 9:06am

Likewise, as the article suggests, Oisín McConville can feel aggrieved he wasn't selected, rather than Michael Murphy. We certainly can't complain about our representation, considering Tyrone, Dublin, Cork, Galway and Meath all had outstanding teams over the last 40 years.

jimmytwotimes 2013 · 30-05-2020 10:34am

Mick McGraw wrote: »

As great a player as he was not sure Moynihan should be the full back on the team he was a great player in the half back line but only really a good full back from my memory.

He probably shouldn't have won it at full back but he was footballer of the year at FB in 2000 and there was no all Ireland that year if it wasn't for him at full back, he was unreal there that year

Bass Reeves · 30-05-2020 3:44pm

Mick McGraw wrote: »

As great a player as he was not sure Moynihan should be the full back on the team he was a great player in the half back line but only really a good full back from my memory.

TBH a lot of fellas out of position. We probably got over represented. John O'Keefe was probably the best fullback I saw since the SG started. You can make the same for all the central position at CB and CF. Cannot imagine Keegan as great a footballer as he is to be a really teak tough CB, Connolly the same at CF. Matt O'Connor and Larry Tompkins were the two greatest CF I ever saw, But Moynihan TBF probably deserved to be on the team and would not have been out of place at CB.

We got 7 in the independent top 20. Jacko, Pat Spillane, Sheehy, Gouch, John O'Keefe, Maurice Fitz and Thomas O Se. I taught that was a good showing and it included Tomkin's and Matt O'Connor
Kilkenny got 6 in the hurling

An Ciarraioch · 05-06-2020 3:15pm

Stefan Okunbor speaks about his experiences growing up in Kerry - largely positive, but some racist incidents both on and off the field:

https://www.the42.ie/stefan-okunbor-kerry-geelong-5115283-Jun2020/

dobman88 · 05-06-2020 3:28pm

Adam Moynihan wrote a similar article in the Killarney Advertiser, spoke to a young Legion player Brian Okwute, well known local tattoo artist and soccer player Ozzy and Aaron Jackson who played basketball for Scott's last year.

https://www.killarneyadvertiser.ie/it-happens-all-the-time-killarneys-black-athletes-tell-of-shocking-racial-abuse/?fbclid=IwAR27gItiGMhFlyI_BF4j2Il420qiLEPwrWovViIOKVbm5nplMx8GR8FrU8A

Kerrydude1981 · 08-06-2020 11:49am

Ok folks what is the county boards next move re competitions

Small window to play the games they should just keep it simple and run everything off in a straight knock out format

wonga77 · 08-06-2020 12:28pm

No time for county league anyway. Could they run senior, intermediate etc as straight knockout and just let the divisional championships be played at the end of the year?
I spose it depends if fellas are comfortable going back playing or not

Kerrydude1981 · 10-06-2020 8:43am

Looks like its going to be the same format for the club football championships, group format with the top teams going forward so every team will get at least three games in the competition

Looks like the county hurling and football championships are going to be straight knockout

CiarraiAbu2 · 10-06-2020 10:20pm

Anybody in favour of scrapping the county championship in its current format, with the junior, intermediate and senior club championship is there a real need for the divisional teams.

ciarriaithuaidh · 11-06-2020 1:08am

CiarraiAbu2 wrote: »

Anybody in favour of scrapping the county championship in its current format, with the junior, intermediate and senior club championship is there a real need for the divisional teams.

Have you given that statement even a moments thought? Because if you have and you know anything about Kerry football then the answer is obviously yes, absolutely.

Divisions are what keeps the County championship as strong as it is, Divisions are what give every single club footballer from every corner of Kerry a chance to play against the best no matter what level his club play at or how they are going. Divisions mean the county championship is such a good proving ground for future county players. Anybody suggesting we shouldn't have divisions is either A)From one of the Senior clubs and wearing blinkers or B)Willfully ignoring the whole history of our SFC.

To give but 1 example: in 1996, Tom O'Sullivan failed to make the Kerry minor panel. By 2000 he was winning the first of 5 All Ireland medals with the Kerry Senior team...a huge reason for this elevation was his presence on the East Kerry team which won 3 successive SFC titles 1997-99. If he just had Rathmore (a Junior club up to 1999 I think) then would he have made it? I sincerely don't think so.

All that being said of course, this year extreme circumstances may mean that there just may not be time to play things off as they normally would be, so who knows what format the board will propose.

Any suggestion divisions not be a part of the SFC will be correctly, met with ridicule though.

mitchelsontour · 11-06-2020 1:11am

CiarraiAbu2 wrote: »

Anybody in favour of scrapping the county championship in its current format, with the junior, intermediate and senior club championship is there a real need for the divisional teams.

Not a hope.
The county championship with divisional teams is one of the reasons Kerry have been so successful. It gives every player a chance if good enough to play senior championship and they can still give it their all for their club. There are counties that have tried divisional sides but have failed because there is no tradition there. I think ourselves and Cork are about the only counties that have it.

Just like you hear complaints from other counties about club teams from Kerry in the junior and intermediate being in Division 1 of the county league. They don't understand the system that championship is championship and you have to win to go up a grade and not be placed there just because you are promoted in the league.

keane2097 · 11-06-2020 11:19am

It's not without a few quirks and issues, but I love the County Championship and the buzz of coming up against a stacked divisional team as a club. You see so many unreal players that you would never see otherwise as they might play for tiny clubs at the other end of the county too.

Bass Reeves · 11-06-2020 11:57am

The other point about divisional teams us that it forces county underage management teams to look at all players. This was even so more before when younger players could play adult games and minor was U18. No minor management team wanted to be knocked out of the All Ireland championship and 3-4 weeks later a young fella from a Junior or Novice club give a few Intercounty players a roasting at a championship match. It happen a lot in other counties where smaller clubs underage players never get look at under age management selected from senior clubs are too busy filling up CB and CF positions with players from there own clubs

An Ciarraioch · 11-06-2020 12:23pm

keane2097 wrote: »

It's not without a few quirks and issues, but I love the County Championship and the buzz of coming up against a stacked divisional team as a club. You see so many unreal players that you would never see otherwise as they might play for tiny clubs at the other end of the county too.

Indeed - my own club of Churchill has had a few players over the years on minor, U-21 and junior county panels, but probably wouldn't have come to the attention of selectors at all if they hadn't been in Brendans' squads.

CiarraiAbu2 · 11-06-2020 2:32pm

I am not against it, I was just putting it out there for discussion and now taking it back in straight away.

I would rather see a straight knock out but that is just my own preference.

CiarraiAbu2 · 11-06-2020 9:47pm

Provisional fixtures
First 3 weeks looks like been for the club championship to finish after SFC on Oct 11 and Oct 18.
SFC to begin on Aug 30 with qf the following week, sf Sep 20, Final Oct 4
SHC Aug 23, SF on Sep 13, Final Sep 27

Now all they have to do is allow us to go in and watch it.

manster · 26-06-2020 9:02pm

Remaining Inter-county Senior fixtures (all going to plan)
1. Sat 17th Oct NFL Monaghan v Kerry (Inishkeen)
2. Sat 24th Oct NFL Kerry v Donegal (Tralee)
3. Sat/Sun 7/8th Nov MSFC Semi-Final Cork v Kerry (PUC)
4. 22nd Nov MSFC Final
5. 5/6th Dec SFC Semi-Final
6. 19th Dec SFC Final

Kerry GAA discussion thread #2

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