Kilkenny GAA Thread Part 2 **MOD NOTE POST 1***

ProudDUB

Samsgirl wrote: »

Cheers, thanks. My Mam is the one asking. She has Saor View and a free to air box. She said she can't find it.
Thanks a mill

It's not on a free to air channel. You have to have a subscription to one of the cable company providers to get the eir channels.

jm08

ProudDUB wrote: »

It's not on a free to air channel. You have to have a subscription to one of the cable company providers to get the eir channels.

Its fee with Eir Broadband.

ProudDUB

jm08 wrote: »

Its fee with Eir Broadband.

Yeah, I get it free too, because I am a paying Eir customer too. That is what I mean. You have to have a subscription with someone to get it. It's not on the free view platform.

allthedoyles

Moving Walter to the half-forward line has worked wonders for Kilkenny

run_Forrest_run

listening to it on KCLR, it sounds frantic. Tipp not having it all their own way. Poor wides could be the deciding factor of this game.

JaffaP

Terrific game to watch. Draw a fair result in the end, Kilkenny's intensity was 100% better than previous league games.

run_Forrest_run

delighted to hear about Kilkenny's performance, some BS talk about how Tipp were going to cruise it tonight.

windy shepard henderson

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

delighted to hear about Kilkenny's performance, some BS talk about how Tipp were going to cruise it tonight.

cracker of a game , the talk of kilkenny finished has been blown out of the water tonight , especially on the second half performance , serious pace to the game for this time of year

paulie gaultieri

Great game to watch thought our midfield were great - Tipp definitely closer to full strength than we were

mullinr2

That shut me up anyway. Said that Tipp would hammer us. That result should give the squad alot of confidence going ahead

KevIRL

TJ Reid will attract all the attention understandably, but Buckley was outstanding i thought

Cornerback1

Listened to it KCLR also. Draw a fair result. Dug deep and came back in the 2nd half. Buckley, according to the radio was excellent as well as T.J. and Richie Hogan hit 4pts in the 2nd half.

Defence played well after a couple of early errors. I think Shane P went to wing half and Cleere played in the centre. Forwardsstoppedthe early dominance of Ronan and Padraic Maher.

Padraig Walsh and Conor O'Se played solidly in the full back line.

Great boost in preparation for the visit to Parnell Park.

unrealtime

Great draw. Didn't think it possible. Tipp still bring out the best in us . It's rare but we hate losing to them.

ProudDUB

Ya feckers !

We've all really enjoyed the last 6 months of writing ye off.

That's gone all to pot now.

Dr. John Zoidberg

Great draw. I really thought they'd put one on us tonight. Very happy with that performance. Great battling.

Moosey15

Happy enough with that ,only one forward hurled at all in first half ,Buckley was immense as were tj and Richie in second half .colin fennellys finishing though .....

Nickindublin

Great Result. Physiologically

citykat

Wow. Great game. Great atmosphere for a league game in March. Championship level intensity at times. Good shows from newbies O'Shea and Cleere at the back. Buckley motm. Best game in a long time. TJ usual excellent performance. Richie made a mug out of one the 'best' full backs in the game. We're still well off our best imo.

brookville

Unbelievable stuff I didn't c that coming delighted with the performance.conor of shea done well but buckley was brilliant he offers more going foward than fogarty.deegan covered huge ground if he could improve his striking he could make it.tj and hogan again fantastic and wally done very well when moved out to 11.fair play to both teams for March 15 v 15 great entertainment

Moosey15

Still buzzing ...let there be no doubt that the expectation in tipp (and the media) was for tipp to do to us what we've done to many a team in the past ,i.e. Go for the throats and hammer home superiority.....some of the articles (particularly on social media) in recent times have been downright shameful and disrespectful and it makes tonight unusually satisfying.lots of good things but a lot to work on too ..a good place to be in march

giveitholly

paulie gaultieri wrote: »

Great game to watch thought our midfield were great - Tipp definitely closer to full strength than we were

tipp had 10 of last years starting 15 and kilkenny had 11 so both teams were about even

JJs Left Hand

great game... that passage in the 2nd half that went on for 2 or 3 minutes up and down the field was sensational

could've won it, could've lost it

delighted with the fight shown

the touch of the Tipp forwards in the 1st was different level but amazing work ethic from us in the 2nd half

expected the worst so delighted with the result but more so the performance.

catseye2

Great entertainment

E Murphy one amazing save and no chance for either goal. Best in country
P Murphy responsible for 2 goals. Marking a great hurler in jmg but got back to even in 2nd half. Falls to ground too easily
Walsh. Held his own against callinan. Can't do better than that at fb
O'Shea. Much better than last week. Will be good confidence builder
Fogarty. Good second half. Looks like this will be his shirt
Prender. Solid. Played mainly as no. 7 and won his batttle 2nd half with mc Cormac
Cleere. No obvious mistakes and looked better in the middle
Buckley. Immense, may need to leave him there
Deegan. A lot of good work in 2nd half. This game puts him in the frame
Richie. Hit and miss but never stopped looking for opportunities to create . Once he gets a yard free you can expect the point
Tj. Got through some worlkload. Critical first goal and keeper never saw either penalty
Colin. Had a poor one. Didn't get the space he got last week and everyone knows he won't take a shot and when he does..
Murphy. Very little ball his way in first half but did win us a pen. Will get another chance but prob not in this league
Blanch. Seem to react too slowly and ff is probably not his spot as seems to need to be out in front. Battled a bit but can do better
Wally. Has to be in half forward line as he needs to be in the action. Made a big difference . One critical wide but that's what you get
Maher. Getting minutes based on last year. Had a few chances to show what he could do but didn't pull it off. More yet to come

Great to see them nearly all get 70 minutes. Touch and confidence improved as it went. Roll on Parnell in 2 weeks. Perfectly set up. Win and it's a qf. Lose and it's a relegation match. And if the latter happens, based on tonight, I now think we will be ok

dobbs2210

Why was hawkeye score detection system not i n operation this evening in Thurles. Confusion surrounding the wide given for Cillian Buckley's effort for a point which he looked 100% convinced was a genuine score???

dastardly00

Could Buckley turn into Michael Fennelly ver. 2.0??
I thought he had a massive impact on the game tonight. Driving forward with the ball and taking scores. Getting stuck in at the back and picking out players with a pass.

Keeping him in midfield looks like it will be a good addition. Likewise Padraig Walsh is doing well at full-back. BUT, that makes our half-back line very weak...

dubcat51

Great game all thats good about hurling on show tonite.still we need to find 3 more forwards to go with tj richie and wally.colin shocking alan murphy like a schoolboy blanch in and out.maher nothing when he came on.ger awlyard mick fen and richie reid sitting behind me tonite all injured they said. O shea best game so far cleere good.paul murphy great 2nd half after poor first half.richie is like messi and bucko outstanding.find 1 or 2 and we will give everyone a game.not gone away by a long shot
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dastardly00

catseye2 wrote: »

Great entertainment

E Murphy one amazing save and no chance for either goal. Best in country
P Murphy responsible for 2 goals. Marking a great hurler in jmg but got back to even in 2nd half. Falls to ground too easily
Walsh. Held his own against callinan. Can't do better than that at fb
O'Shea. Much better than last week. Will be good confidence builder
Fogarty. Good second half. Looks like this will be his shirt
Prender. Solid. Played mainly as no. 7 and won his batttle 2nd half with mc Cormac
Cleere. No obvious mistakes and looked better in the middle
Buckley. Immense, may need to leave him there
Deegan. A lot of good work in 2nd half. This game puts him in the frame
Richie. Hit and miss but never stopped looking for opportunities to create . Once he gets a yard free you can expect the point
Tj. Got through some worlkload. Critical first goal and keeper never saw either penalty
Colin. Had a poor one. Didn't get the space he got last week and everyone knows he won't take a shot and when he does..
Murphy. Very little ball his way in first half but did win us a pen. Will get another chance but prob not in this league
Blanch. Seem to react too slowly and ff is probably not his spot as seems to need to be out in front. Battled a bit but can do better
Wally. Has to be in half forward line as he needs to be in the action. Made a big difference . One critical wide but that's what you get
Maher. Getting minutes based on last year. Had a few chances to show what he could do but didn't pull it off. More yet to come

Great to see them nearly all get 70 minutes. Touch and confidence improved as it went. Roll on Parnell in 2 weeks. Perfectly set up. Win and it's a qf. Lose and it's a relegation match. And if the latter happens, based on tonight, I now think we will be ok

I'd agree with nearly everything you said catseye2.

I disagree about Fogarty though. I think he's much more at ease at midfield, and tends to win more ball when in the middle of the park. He seems hampered at half-back when he always has to be conscious of where the player he is making is.

As dangerous as Colin Fennelly was against Cork last week, he was anonymous tonight. Very poor.

If I was a sub on the bench I'd be pretty pissed off because Fennelly and Blanchfield should definitely not have played the full 70. Very little impact.

It was a relief to finally score some goals, but the fact that we only had four scorers (TJ, Richie, Buckley, and Wally) is worrying. On the otherhand all six of Tipp's forwards had scored by the 40th minute.

Topcat32

dubcat51 wrote: »

Great game all thats good about hurling on show tonite.still we need to find 3 more forwards to go with tj richie and wally.colin shocking alan murphy like a schoolboy blanch in and out.maher nothing when he came on.ger awlyard mick fen and richie reid sitting behind me tonite all injured they said. O shea best game so far cleere good.paul murphy great 2nd half after poor first half.richie is like messi and bucko outstanding.find 1 or 2 and we will give everyone a game.not gone away by a long shot
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Colin will start and is a very important player for us, lets not forget last week or more importantly the semi final last year, Richie Leahy was excellent last week, John Walsh flying with the under 21s today, Ger Aylward hopefully will get his fitness back and possibly Mick Fennelly to come back and possibly play Centre Forward, with a bit of luck we may have a very dangerous forward line this year, thats not even mentioning players like Luke Scanlon, Kevin Kelly and John Power.

v3ttel

dobbs2210 wrote: »

Why was hawkeye score detection system not i n operation this evening in Thurles. Confusion surrounding the wide given for Cillian Buckley's effort for a point which he looked 100% convinced was a genuine score???

I was right behind that. It very much looked like a point. I'm not surprised that Buckley protested so much. Also, Tipp had an identical shot (started wide, but came back inside the same post at the same end) given in the second half.

O'Shea had a great game, Cleere was solid again after a slow start, Shane was very good when moved to left half back, Fogarty was solid as usual. Wally really stood up to be counted at times, TJ & Richie were very good again, but Cillian Buckley was absolutely outstanding. Blanch & Colin Fennelly were poor. Blanchfield didn't win or puc a ball all night but at least he won the penalty. Good game from Paddy Deegan, he is an intelligent player but his right side is non-existent. That's a real worry because it makes him very predictable, other teams will spot that very quickly. If he can work on his right side he has good potential.

Add Mick Fennelly, John Walsh, Ger Alyward, Richie Leahy & Lester Ryan into that and suddenly things seem promising. I hope Alan Murphy gets more chances, he didn't have many opportunities to get involved tonight but he is potentially an excellent player.

blackcard

The most optimistic kk supporter I talked to during the week had a 6 point win for Tipp so delighted with the result and the fight shown. TJ and Buckley terrific. Refreshing to see two teams play hurling as it should be played. Full of honest endeavour and man on man contests. Hard to see past Tipp for the AI unless Callinan or John McGrath gets injured.

blackcard

Credit to both teams. Betweeen League and championship, they have produced magnificent encounters over the last 7 years.

thelostboys23

Excellent game for the time of year, these games like that are worth a month of training. Great to see 14k at a league game too.

Thought our full back line done well overall but all the tipp full forward line needed was one error or bit of skill and they got the scores like callinan got 2 great points in a few mins in the 2nd half. The same could be said sbout the tipp backs on Richie he was held for large spells yet still got four points. Thats the difference between the standard inter county player and the marquee players.

Overall happy with the performance but although the two goals conceded were disappointing tipp still carved open another couole of goal chances but great to see KK fashion a few themselves.

The half back line were under pressure early but came into it and eventually held their own after cleere and prendergast switched as early on mccormack and tipp numbr 11 (cant remem his name) were well on top at the start.

Did anyone else thing KK were targeting goals as it seemed a coyple of times when a point was on that we were trying to play good ball in to the fullforwards but it just wasnt coming off, be it under hit or intercepted etc. Loved the fact we played more for goals but a few times a point was definitely the better option.

Buckley was my motm he was excellent and cleaned breen out before he went off and deegen after a slow start cane into it has a great engine and got a great hook at the death right in front of cody.

In the forward TJ was tio class and his work rate along with scores is unreal. His three goals were all struck beautiful and for the penaltues although the keeper didnt move there was extreme power in the strikes. Wally was the best of the other forwards, worked hard got a few great scores but missed one or two also and Richie shoed his class with some nice scores. Coln was poor but he's that inconsistent type of player that is poor followed by massive game. Murphy and Blanchfield will have better days but the fight was there which is good to see.

Looking forward to hopefully another meeting v tipp in bothleafue and championship this year as they're still both the top two in the country at the moment.

kk.man

We should never loose faith in Cody...we are in better shape than I thought...maybe not top class but decent

brookville

kk.man wrote: »

We should never loose faith in Cody...we are in better shape than I thought...maybe not top class but decent

I agree he just keeps giving and giving and if we could get a few players from this league I'd be happy.last nights game will stand to cleere,o shea,deegan and even alan murphy.Deegans man got two points but deegans work rate was top notch an that would please Brian more than anything.final match against dublin away will decide if we stay up or relegation but dublin should have cuala lads back and have being competitive without them so it won't be easy
When all our injured lads come back our squad will probably be stronger than last year

Bonniedog

Just discussing that on Dublin thread Brookville!

Not sure he will bring back the Cuala players. Depends what happens next Friday I suppose. David Treacy alone be worth 4/5 points in frees no harm to current takers!

Should be a good game and place be jammed.

Great game last night by the way. And good reffing.

Topcat32

brookville wrote: »

I agree he just keeps giving and giving and if we could get a few players from this league I'd be happy.last nights game will stand to cleere,o shea,deegan and even alan murphy.Deegans man got two points but deegans work rate was top notch an that would please Brian more than anything.final match against dublin away will decide if we stay up or relegation but dublin should have cuala lads back and have being competitive without them so it won't be easy
When all our injured lads come back our squad will probably be stronger than last year

It won't decide relegation, there is a playoff for that.

brookville

Topcat32 wrote: »

It won't decide relegation, there is a playoff for that.

Yeah sorry that what's I meant relegation final

dubcat51

Topcat32 wrote: »

Colin will start and is a very important player for us, lets not forget last week or more importantly the semi final last year, Richie Leahy was excellent last week, John Walsh flying with the under 21s today, Ger Aylward hopefully will get his fitness back and possibly Mick Fennelly to come back and possibly play Centre Forward, with a bit of luck we may have a very dangerous forward line this year, thats not even mentioning players like Luke Scanlon, Kevin Kelly and John Power.

who did the 21s play today and do u know the team?

Rasputin11

Met a Kilkenny man by the name of Canice in a pub last night, dressed in full Elvis attire, gas yoke.

brookville

dubcat51 wrote: »

who did the 21s play today and do u know the team?

I think they played tipp yesterday and won.

citykat

Rasputin11 wrote: »

Met a Kilkenny man by the name of Canice in a pub last night, dressed in full Elvis attire, gas yoke.

Sure it wasn't Myles?

Cornerback1

brookville wrote: »

kk.man wrote: »

We should never loose faith in Cody...we are in better shape than I thought...maybe not top class but decent

I agree he just keeps giving and giving and if we could get a few players from this league I'd be happy.last nights game will stand to cleere,o shea,deegan and even alan murphy.Deegans man got two points but deegans work rate was top notch an that would please Brian more than anything.final match against dublin away will decide if we stay up or relegation but dublin should have cuala lads back and have being competitive without them so it won't be easy
When all our injured lads come back our squad will probably be stronger than last year

Not sure if Cuala lads will be back - hard to know. They may take another week.

Rasputin11

citykat wrote: »

Sure it wasn't Myles?

Maybe so, he was selling scratchcards for the homeless, reckoned the draw was a fair outcome anyway!!

brookville

Cornerback1 wrote: »

Not sure if Cuala lads will be back - hard to know. They may take another week.

It could unsettle them by throwing in the cuala lads.if you look at it I thought dublin were unlucky against waterford (2 goalkeeping errors) and today they missed a few scoreable frees they could be further up the table.we have to get a win in two weeks but parnell park is a tough hunting ground but if we bring a performance like last night we should get the result.I'd say brian will make changes for this one he always makes 2-3 changes,hopefully a few injured lads will be nearing a return

citykat

Rasputin11 wrote: »

Maybe so, he was selling scratchcards for the homeless, reckoned the draw was a fair outcome anyway!!

Sounds like our Myles alright. Part of the local colour if you like. Wouldn't know one end of a hurl from the other.

dubcat51

Dublin can get out of relegation play off if they beat us and cork loose to tipp.if cork game is saturday night they will know their fate.if cork win they would play us on relegation.play off if they beat us
If cork win they may prefer to play clare or waterford and rest cuala players another week for plsy off game.

Morris Moss

Rasputin11 wrote: »

Maybe so, he was selling scratchcards for the homeless, reckoned the draw was a fair outcome anyway!!

Aye, selling them for the homeless indeed.....

brookville

dubcat51 wrote: »

Dublin can get out of relegation play off if they beat us and cork loose to tipp.if cork game is saturday night they will know their fate.if cork win they would play us on relegation.play off if they beat us
If cork win they may prefer to play clare or waterford and rest cuala players another week for plsy off game.

Id say all the final league games will be played on the same day and time

Rasputin11

Morris Moss wrote: »

Aye, selling them for the homeless indeed.....

I'd say he sold 20 quids worth, beer money?

Cornerback1

dubcat51 wrote: »

Dublin can get out of relegation play off if they beat us and cork loose to tipp.if cork game is saturday night they will know their fate.if cork win they would play us on relegation.play off if they beat us
If cork win they may prefer to play clare or waterford and rest cuala players another week for plsy off game.

Last series of games are usually on at same time so no one has an unfair advantage.

Was it Dublin a few years ago if they had got 1 pt more, they'd been safe but were going for goals to win match. I can't remember correctly though.