Kildare GAA General Discussion Thread

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Any scores

Stevecw

Carlow 1-8 v Kildare 1-7

klairondavis

Kildare 2-7 Carlow 1-9 Full Time

Fogarty (2-2, 1f), Mulhall (0-3, 2fs), O’Neill (0-1), Whyte (0-1)

Podge Fogarty goal in injury time secures an undeserved win for Kildare.

Nib

Big win for Maynooth University over Laois. 0-18 to 1-7.

klairondavis

Nib wrote: »

Big win for Maynooth University over Laois. 0-18 to 1-7.

Maybe we'll meet Carlow again this year on 6 June! Laois have neglected their underage after Sean Dempsey left the system. Very little coming through there over the last few years.

paulie21

Very poor second half by Kildare. Carlow were able to cut through the middle at will. Very sloppy in possession. Hand passes going astray, balls been dropped, poor wides kicked. Fogarty really bailed us out with the goal.

Stevecw

klairondavis wrote: »

Maybe we'll meet Carlow again this year on 6 June! Laois have neglected their underage after Sean Dempsey left the system. Very little coming through there over the last few years.

Hopefully that might happen. We in Carlow have for 1st time in a few years got a committed panel of 35, most of who are the best players. Had a few playing this evening where we were very unlucky not to win.
Our new manager is a local guy and he really cares. Making massive effort to get the best players in Carlow available.

Home game in DCP v Laois is seriously attractive tho and is the best draw we could have got.

klairondavis

Stevecw wrote: »

Hopefully that might happen. We in Carlow have for 1st time in a few years got a committed panel of 35, most of who are the best players. Had a few playing this evening where we were very unlucky not to win.
Our new manager is a local guy and he really cares. Making massive effort to get the best players in Carlow available.

Home game in DCP v Laois is seriously attractive tho and is the best draw we could have got.

There's no reason why Carlow can't have a good year. Plenty of good footballers there but they could never manage to get them all to commit to the panel at the same time. Very little between most teams down in Division 4 and if Carlow are tuned in this year then they should go well there. Laois' state of mind could well depend on their league campaign. A bad league campaign and they might not be in very good shape travelling to Carlow.

homeofhurling

klairondavis wrote: »

Maybe we'll meet Carlow again this year on 6 June! Laois have neglected their underage after Sean Dempsey left the system. Very little coming through there over the last few years.

was in Athy last year for kildare again offaly in the under 21 theres not a whole lot coming through in kildare either. i think Dublins second team would win leinster.

klairondavis

homeofhurling wrote: »

was in Athy last year for kildare again offaly in the under 21 theres not a whole lot coming through in kildare either. i think Dublins second team would win leinster.

Leinster minor, u21 and junior champions in 2013. Now there have been some very mediocre underage teams over the last few years too but to suggest there is not a whole lot coming through in Kildare isn't true.

Reaching Dublin's level is an unattainable goal but there is no reason to suggest Kildare can't be fairly competitive at national level - All Ireland quarter finals, NFL Div 1.

Nib

homeofhurling wrote: »

was in Athy last year for kildare again offaly in the under 21 theres not a whole lot coming through in kildare either. i think Dublins second team would win leinster.

Their first team must be shite.

homeofhurling

leinster minor under 21 junior but no all ireland in any grade after, not running down kildare but even the club champions moorefield were blew out the gate by Rhode in the leinster club. Jason Ryan has a big job on his hands with kildare losing a few to aussie rules wouldn't have help either
can't see kildare in the All Ireland Quarter finals bar a handy draw,

homeofhurling

Nib wrote: »

Their first team must be shite.

they are along with the rest thats in it:)

klairondavis

homeofhurling wrote: »

leinster minor under 21 junior but no all ireland in any grade after, not running down kildare but even the club champions moorefield were blew out the gate by Rhode in the leinster club. Jason Ryan has a big job on his hands with kildare losing a few to aussie rules wouldn't have help either
can't see kildare in the All Ireland Quarter finals bar a handy draw,

We were only seconds away from a quarter final spot last year and that was after quite a poor year by recent standards.

I wouldn't read too much into Moorefield's display. They were extremely fortunate to win the county championship this year somehow beating Celbridge and coming back in injury time against Sarsfields the first day. They have also no players who will start championship football for Kildare.

Losing the three lads to Australia was indeed a big blow to our prospects but there are strong rumours that one of them is returning home for good which would be a big fillip to Kildare.

I think Kildare are still a good few years away yet and we need to be a lot more consistent at u21 level. Bryan Murphy's appointment there is a step in the right direction. One of the biggest indicators of an improvement at underage level is colleges football and Kildare schools seem to be on the up after decades of being non entities at these grades. Ardscoil na Trinoide are doing well this year and Scoil Mhuire are also on the up. Maynooth PP and Salesians of Celbridge have had great success in the Dublin Colleges competitions recently and a lot of St Mary's Edenderry's successful teams were backboned by Kildare players - Dan Flynn, Paul Cribbin, Dan Grehan, Cein McMonagle.

Nib

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/mick-foley-opts-out-of-the-kildare-football-squad-for-2015-1.2058165#.VK3Yp9AYW44.twitter

Highly unlikely we'll see Foley in a Kildare jersey again. He owes Kildare nothing, a great servant to the cause. Deserved his All-Star in 2011.

It seems Mikey Conway is injured again unfortunately.

klairondavis

I would be inclined to agree on Foley unfortunately and I doubt we will see Flynn or Conway play for Kildare again either. It's symptomatic of the way the game has gone with Flanagan and James Kavanagh also packing it in this year. I was surprised that Callaghan came back to be honest. The demands placed on these guys are extreme and it must be very difficult to balance training with trying to hold down a full time job. In ten years time there will be practically no players continuing on into their thirties and county panels will be made up almost exclusively of third level students.

klairondavis

Hastings Cup u21

Kildare 0-13 Longford 0-7

Nib

A good win over a strong Longford team.

Team was:

David McNamara,
Eoin Cummins, Darren Maguire, TJ Gordon,
John Costello, Paschal Connell, David O'Neill,
Liam Power, Ryan Moore,
Tom Gibbons, David Fitzpatrick, Wayne Fitzpatrick,
Shane O'Rourke, Declan Flaherty, Chris Canning

I really like that full forward line.

klairondavis

Kildare (v UCD, 11/1/15)

1 Mark Donnellan (Maynooth)
2 Gavin Farrell (Castledermot)
3 Ciarán Fitzpatrick (Kilcock)
4 Seán Campbell (Sarsfields)
5 Cian O'Donoghue (Clane)
6 Daryl O'Brien (Carbury)
7 Eoin Doyle (Naas)
8 Gary White (Sarsfields)
9 Hugh Lynch (Confey)
10 Eoghan O'Flaherty (Carbury)
11 Éamonn Callaghan (Naas)
12 Kevin Murnaghan (Moorefield)
13 Darroch Mulhall (Athy)
14 Tomás O'Connor (Clane)
15 Fionn Dowling (Suncroft)

klairondavis

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/kildares-hurlers-are-fighting-to-escape-the-backwater-30897732.html

Sad to lose Paudie Reidy, David Harney, Tony Murphy and Richie Hoban. It does give an opportunity for some of the u21s who have done so well over the last few years. Johnny Byrne declaring for the hurlers over the footballers says a lot about the progress Kildare hurling is making.

klairondavis

Kildare 0-21 UCD 1-5

Mulhall (0-9, 3f), Dowling (0-4), O’Flaherty (0-3, 1f), Fogarty (0-2), O’Connor (0-1), Callaghan (0-1), Lynch (0-1)

Niall Kelly kicked a few points for UCD. Tommy Moolick was taken off for them with an injury.

klairondavis

Semi final v DIT next Sunday.

Nib

This is all we need. :rolleyes:

http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=229927

Frankie Lee

A devastating blow for Kildare given the shortage of options there and with Hurley gone too. Ryan is dead right for once over the nonsense of college teams in the O'Byrne cup and them playing county players ahead of the counties.

klairondavis

Just when the injuries looked like they were clearing up.

grouchyman

Nib wrote: »

This is all we need. :rolleyes:

That's tough on the young man. How long does it take to recover from an injury like that?

paulie21

Tommy Moolick expected to miss 6-8 weeks. Daniel Flynn returning home from Australia so hopefully he will be back on the panel

Nib

Great to hear Moolick won't be out for too long, he was excellent late last year.

Disappointing to see the hurler's and footballer's games are both on at the same time on Sunday. The hurlers are playing Maynooth University in Hawkfield with the footballers in St Conleth's against DIT. Surely there should have been a double header in St Conleth's Park. Another master stroke by the GAA, not long after the PR disaster of playing the O'Byrne cup game v Carlow the night after four girls from both counties were killed 5 minutes up the road.

Sometimes you would be ashamed to call yourself a GAA man!

klairondavis

It's one of the drawbacks of our aging county grounds. The dressing rooms are completely inadequate for two, let alone four adult teams. They had a few double headers some years ago and hurling teams were left standing outside waiting for the football teams to vacate the dressing rooms and take to the field. A lot of teams are now togging out and warming up over in Hawkfield before hopping on the bus down the road to the town. Sarsfields and Moorefield both tog out at their own grounds before matches in St Conleth's Park.

klairondavis

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/no-issue-for-kildare-hurlers-over-switch-to-hawkfield-30906149.html