Kerry GAA Discussion Thread Mod Warning Post #4167

Kerrydude1981

Goal for Kerry

Kerry 1-6
Antrim 0-13

Kerrydude1981

Now

Kerry 1-8
Antrim 0-13

DDC1990

Right in it now, with that wind.

Kerrydude1981

Fecking goal for Antrim

1-13 to 1-8 now

Kerrydude1981

And then Radio Kerry switch back to the football

DDC1990

1-13 to 1-8

Kerrydude1981

Great stuff,keep it going lads

Antrim 1-15
Kerry 2-10

DDC1990

Kerry a point up!

2-13 to 1-15

DDC1990

A point down now, 2-13 1-17.

2 down now: 1-18 to 2-13 4 mins to go.

Kerrydude1981

Up by a point now

Come on lads hold on

Kerrydude1981

All over

Finally we are up in 1B

Final Score

Kerry 2-16
Antrim 1-18

DDC1990

Unreal. Well done lads.

Thoroughly deserved.

Mal-Adjusted

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

All over

Finally we are up in 1B

Congratulations from a Clare fan. ye were knocking on the door long enough with a system weighed against ye. Look forward to playing you in the league next year.

JFlah

Well done the Kerry hurlers, justice is done at last.

DDC1990

PCD have won as well.

Great day for the Kingdom.

ShamoBuc

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

All over

Finally we are up in 1B

Final Score

Kerry 2-16
Antrim 1-18

Great result for Kerry. Hopefully this will aid hurling development in the county.

Kerrydude1981

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Stinicker

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Great result for Kerry. Hopefully this will aid hurling development in the county.

Hopefully not, waste of time, we should focus on what we are good at like Kilkenny. I have always maintained that if Kerry were as selfish with promotion of Football like the GAA in Kilkenny are with Hurling then Kerry could have complete and utter domination of Gaelic Football. Today was a nice win and a good morale booster but in reality Hurling in Kerry is never going anywhere, it is going nowhere in most counties and the youth of Kerry should be focused on Football the like the boys from Corca Dhuibhne today. Even Cork cannot produce the Hurling teams anymore and people should wake up and admit that Hurling is dying and its not competitive anymore because Kilkenny have it killed off.

Kerrydude1981

Antrim 1-18 Kerry 2-16

John Egan etched his name in Kerry hurling history with an injury-time winner to defeat Antrim at Parnell Park and ensure Allianz Hurling League Division 1B hurling for the Kingdom in 2016.
The St Brendan's man was only introduced with 13 minutes to go but hit the point that secured the most precious of victories.
Kerry had finished top or joint top of Division 2A for three seasons running but had consistently failed to gain promotion until now.
They remained on long odds coming to Parnell Park to face Antrim as Division 2A champions and were seven points down at half-time.
But a thrilling second-half performance with the wind at their backs that included two Colm Harty goals saw them draw level three times late on.
Extra-time loomed but Kerry managed to work the ball out to Egan who shot off balance but still managed to dissect the posts.
It's a disastrous result for Antrim who drop to the third tier of the league and will realise the system makes it difficult for them to return.
Kevin Ryan's side approached the tie with a wretched Division 1B record having lost all five of their group games. They also slipped to defeat to Laois in the relegation play-off though this tie gave them one last opportunity to save their status.
They took a commanding 0-11 to 0-3 half-time lead though it hardly reflected the exchanges in an evenly contested encounter.
Kerry kicked themselves after firing nine wides while they also failed to take any of the three goal chances they carved out.
They chased goals early on, perhaps with the memory still strong of the five they scored last weekend in the first 18 minutes of the Division 2A final win over Westmeath.
They had that game virtually wrapped up by half-time but that was never likely to be replicated here. Aside from facing 1B opposition, they were also firing into the teeth of a gale for the first 35 minutes.
Kerry coped well with the conditions early on and Antrim led by just 0-4 to 0-2 after 20 minutes. But four frees in a row from Paul Shiels put significant daylight between the sides.
In fact, Antrim tallied nine points without reply in the middle section of the opening half to take that sizeable interval lead.
It remained to be seen whether eight points was enough of an advantage as the Saffrons faced into the breeze themselves.
Kerry duly took advantage of the breeze with points from Patrick Kelly, Shane Nolan and John Griffin after the restart.
Antrim points from Shiels and sub Conor Johnson stemmed the Kingdom tide momentarily but the Munster men were quickly back on the offensive.
They fired 1-2 including a fine 46th minute Harty solo goal to leave just two in it with Antrim 0-13 to 1-8 ahead.
Antrim rallied for a period and PJ O'Connell netted but Harty's second goal for Kerry when he scooped in from close range after a defensive error left three in it.
It set up an exciting finale and the sides were level three times before Egan struck at the death for that famous winner.

Kerry: S Murphy, D Fitzell, P Costello, B Murphy, S Weir, D Dineen, D Collins (0-01), J Griffin (0-01), P Kelly (0-01), C Harty (2-00), S Nolan (0-08, 0-05f), M O'Leary (0-04), M Boyle, P Boyle, K Carmody.
Subs: J Egan (0-01) for Carmody, J Flaherty for P Boyle.
Antrim: C O'Connell, O McFadden, N McAuley (0-01), A Graffin, E McAlonan, N McManus (0-01), C McKinley, E Campbell, M Bradley (0-01), P Shiels (0-07, 0-07f), C Carson, D McKernan, PJ O'Connell (1-02), M Donnelly (0-01), C Clarke (0-03, 0-01f).
Subs: C Johnson (0-01) for McAlonan, M Dudley (0-01) for Carson, D Hamill for Bradley.
Referee: Sean Cleere (Kilkenny).

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/hurling/2015/0411/693449-antrim-v-kerry/

Big Ears

Stinicker wrote: »

Hopefully not, waste of time, we should focus on what we are good at like Kilkenny. I have always maintained that if Kerry were as selfish with promotion of Football like the GAA in Kilkenny are with Hurling then Kerry could have complete and utter domination of Gaelic Football. Today was a nice win and a good morale booster but in reality Hurling in Kerry is never going anywhere, it is going nowhere in most counties and the youth of Kerry should be focused on Football the like the boys from Corca Dhuibhne today. Even Cork cannot produce the Hurling teams anymore and people should wake up and admit that Hurling is dying and its not competitive anymore because Kilkenny have it killed off.

So if we accept your consensus that hurling is dead, you would actually like to see both hurling and football killed off ?


Well done to Kerry today, a big achievement considering how difficult it has been made to bridge the gap between 1B and 2A.

Darkest Horse

Stinicker wrote: »

Hopefully not, waste of time, we should focus on what we are good at like Kilkenny. I have always maintained that if Kerry were as selfish with promotion of Football like the GAA in Kilkenny are with Hurling then Kerry could have complete and utter domination of Gaelic Football. Today was a nice win and a good morale booster but in reality Hurling in Kerry is never going anywhere, it is going nowhere in most counties and the youth of Kerry should be focused on Football the like the boys from Corca Dhuibhne today. Even Cork cannot produce the Hurling teams anymore and people should wake up and admit that Hurling is dying and its not competitive anymore because Kilkenny have it killed off.

A ridiculous one-eyed argument. You want Kerry to dominate like Kilkenny which, by your own logic, means that football would eventually start stagnating in the way you say hurling is (which it isn't). You can have competitive teams in both codes and several counties have achieved this at various points in time, some currently. Either way, a competitive Kerry hurling team would never threaten the dominance of football in the county and a little bit of success in the former would invigorate hurling in the country as a whole.

JFlah

Stinicker wrote: »

Hopefully not, waste of time, we should focus on what we are good at like Kilkenny. I have always maintained that if Kerry were as selfish with promotion of Football like the GAA in Kilkenny are with Hurling then Kerry could have complete and utter domination of Gaelic Football. Today was a nice win and a good morale booster but in reality Hurling in Kerry is never going anywhere, it is going nowhere in most counties and the youth of Kerry should be focused on Football the like the boys from Corca Dhuibhne today. Even Cork cannot produce the Hurling teams anymore and people should wake up and admit that Hurling is dying and its not competitive anymore because Kilkenny have it killed off.

That's the attitude !!!!!!

Syferus

Kerry already punch above their weight in football. No harm in supporting the parts of a county that have a passion for the other national game.

Kerrydude1981

Stinicker wrote: »

Hopefully not, waste of time, we should focus on what we are good at like Kilkenny. I have always maintained that if Kerry were as selfish with promotion of Football like the GAA in Kilkenny are with Hurling then Kerry could have complete and utter domination of Gaelic Football. Today was a nice win and a good morale booster but in reality Hurling in Kerry is never going anywhere, it is going nowhere in most counties and the youth of Kerry should be focused on Football the like the boys from Corca Dhuibhne today. Even Cork cannot produce the Hurling teams anymore and people should wake up and admit that Hurling is dying and its not competitive anymore because Kilkenny have it killed off.

KevIRL

Well done Kerry hurlers. Biggest day since beating our lads in 1993? Delighted for ye.

Mr. Incognito

Great result. Looking forward to going to the hurling games next year

Fr Tod Umptious

Syferus wrote: »

Kerry already punch above their weight in football. No harm in supporting the parts of a county that have a passion for the other national game.

Well that's it.
Hurling in Kerry is very much confined to the North West of the county.

It does not impact the football clubs in the rest of the county.

Borders no.2

Congrats to Kerry. Should have been promoted last year. The irony is that the change in the rules for next season will probably be detrimental to them. Great day for them and they'll get a few big games against the likes of Clare, Limerick and Wexford.

homerjay2005

The incredible run of success that started with PCD around this time last year continues with two more great success today.

Delighted for the Hurlers, this must be a sweet sweet day for them.

mollymaloney

Just as a little aside,-- the Hogan Cup is named after Brother Tommy Hogan from Grangemockler in Tipperary. His brother Michael, killed in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday, gives his name to the Hogan Stand.